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They make almost everything (baked desserts and cheesecake excepted) in house. Most casual dining places use a lot of Sysco pre-made stuff. This doesn't make it

They make almost everything (baked desserts and cheesecake excepted) in house. Most casual dining places use a lot of Sysco pre-made stuff. This doesn't make it better but that's unusual for a chain, along with the high number of menu items.

smashed 3y ago
You're saying the cheesecake factory makes everything except the actual cheese cakes?
- pryelluw 3y ago
  They should maybe rebrand to The Cheesecake Outlet.
  - babypuncher 3y ago
    I think "Factory" works, since the cheesecakes are the menu item that is made in an actual factory instead of a kitchen.
    - kuhewa 3y ago
      That would make sense if the sign was on the factory that made them and not the restaurant they are delivered to
      - babypuncher 3y ago
        Perhaps "Cheesecake Factory Outlet" would be more to your liking?
- stevenwoo 3y ago
  The article mentions they have separate bakeries (uncertain whether Cheesecake Factory owned or not), the in house kitchen/pantry/freezer is optimized around food prep/cooking everything else on menu.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  They have a factory in Calabasas, California that makes all of their cheese cakes.
NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
I've read that several times... And yet, I drive by there every morning on my way to work, and twice a week there's a Sysco truck backing in to their parking lot. What exactly are they delivering, if not pre-made. If I wanted to spend $150 eating out, I'd want something slightly less nasty than their crap. It tastes like microwaved Stouffers. Rather than them being supergenius restauranteurs, it really does look like they just managed to survive the last decade when so many other chain restaurants went tits up since 2008. That coupled with covid cabin fever that seems like it never went away, makes for the sort of busy some mistake for grand success.
- verall 3y ago
  sysco also delivers ingredients, they're not the best quality, but I was at a place where everything was from scratch and most of the produce and ingredients came from sysco.
  - bombcar 3y ago
    Sysco is reliable, you order ten pounds of tomatoes and you will get your ten pounds of tomatoes day in and day out. Sure you could send your chef to the farmer’s market to pick tomatoes but that is more costly and sometimes he’d return empty handed.
    - verall 3y ago
      Yeah, and for produce honestly they were just fine, on par with what you'd get at the local HEB. I wasn't impressed by the meat quality but our manager might have been getting the cheaper stuff from them.
  - NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
    Much of what they cook is pasta. Are the ingredients "dried pasta"? Are they cooking the sauces themselves, after stewing tomatoes for 6 hours? Or do those come out of a can? I'm guessing that for the pasta, they're boiling water. The rest of their menu looks like cheeseburgers and sandwiches. So maybe they're frying up a frozen patty once in awhile. Are they baking the bread and buns for these sandwiches themselves? They also have alot of weird appetizers. Are they wrapping those spring rolls themselves, or do those come frozen out of a box and ready to deep fry? Fried cheese sticks, asparagus, and zucchini... are you telling me those are hand-breaded, or do they come frozen out of a box? (Before you answer, consider carefully if someone who has never wrapped a spring roll before can get it right on even the 10th try after watching a 40 second tutorial video on the ipad they have bolted up above the prep table.) There are half a dozen soups. Are those not coming out of a can? Crusted/breaded chicken... that's not coming out of the box frozen? https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu Oh, looks like you can get onion rings. Are those not coming frozen out of the box to be deep-fried? French fries? When I get the crispy pineapple chicken and shrimp, are you telling me that they cut up a pineapple that morning for when that's ordered, or do they cut up the pineapple when I order it? Or, is it frozen in a plastic bag, like those god-awful stir-fries you get in the frozen section at the grocery store? Did they slice the corn off the cob that morning themselves, or does that come out of a plastic bag, all flash-frozen? Do they have a rice steamer in the back, or is that in one of those plastic per-serving bags that are microwaved? The only stuff on this menu that are both "made themselves" and "not fast food" are the steaks (and good luck getting a good one there). This place shares its menu (literally) with Fazolis. There are CCF-branded items on Fazolis menu the last time I went there. This is TGI Friday's level bullshit. They aren't some big-data driven Nostradamuses (Nostradami?), the link's just a gussed-up press release.

smashed 3y ago

You're saying the cheesecake factory makes everything except the actual cheese cakes?

pryelluw 3y ago
They should maybe rebrand to The Cheesecake Outlet.
- babypuncher 3y ago
  I think "Factory" works, since the cheesecakes are the menu item that is made in an actual factory instead of a kitchen.
  - kuhewa 3y ago
    That would make sense if the sign was on the factory that made them and not the restaurant they are delivered to
    - babypuncher 3y ago
      Perhaps "Cheesecake Factory Outlet" would be more to your liking?
stevenwoo 3y ago
The article mentions they have separate bakeries (uncertain whether Cheesecake Factory owned or not), the in house kitchen/pantry/freezer is optimized around food prep/cooking everything else on menu.
bryanlarsen 3y ago
They have a factory in Calabasas, California that makes all of their cheese cakes.

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago

I've read that several times... And yet, I drive by there every morning on my way to work, and twice a week there's a Sysco truck backing in to their parking lot. What exactly are they delivering, if not pre-made. If I wanted to spend $150 eating out, I'd want something slightly less nasty than their crap. It tastes like microwaved Stouffers. Rather than them being supergenius restauranteurs, it really does look like they just managed to survive the last decade when so many other chain restaurants went tits up since 2008. That coupled with covid cabin fever that seems like it never went away, makes for the sort of busy some mistake for grand success.

verall 3y ago
sysco also delivers ingredients, they're not the best quality, but I was at a place where everything was from scratch and most of the produce and ingredients came from sysco.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Sysco is reliable, you order ten pounds of tomatoes and you will get your ten pounds of tomatoes day in and day out. Sure you could send your chef to the farmer’s market to pick tomatoes but that is more costly and sometimes he’d return empty handed.
  - verall 3y ago
    Yeah, and for produce honestly they were just fine, on par with what you'd get at the local HEB. I wasn't impressed by the meat quality but our manager might have been getting the cheaper stuff from them.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
  Much of what they cook is pasta. Are the ingredients "dried pasta"? Are they cooking the sauces themselves, after stewing tomatoes for 6 hours? Or do those come out of a can? I'm guessing that for the pasta, they're boiling water. The rest of their menu looks like cheeseburgers and sandwiches. So maybe they're frying up a frozen patty once in awhile. Are they baking the bread and buns for these sandwiches themselves? They also have alot of weird appetizers. Are they wrapping those spring rolls themselves, or do those come frozen out of a box and ready to deep fry? Fried cheese sticks, asparagus, and zucchini... are you telling me those are hand-breaded, or do they come frozen out of a box? (Before you answer, consider carefully if someone who has never wrapped a spring roll before can get it right on even the 10th try after watching a 40 second tutorial video on the ipad they have bolted up above the prep table.) There are half a dozen soups. Are those not coming out of a can? Crusted/breaded chicken... that's not coming out of the box frozen? https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu Oh, looks like you can get onion rings. Are those not coming frozen out of the box to be deep-fried? French fries? When I get the crispy pineapple chicken and shrimp, are you telling me that they cut up a pineapple that morning for when that's ordered, or do they cut up the pineapple when I order it? Or, is it frozen in a plastic bag, like those god-awful stir-fries you get in the frozen section at the grocery store? Did they slice the corn off the cob that morning themselves, or does that come out of a plastic bag, all flash-frozen? Do they have a rice steamer in the back, or is that in one of those plastic per-serving bags that are microwaved? The only stuff on this menu that are both "made themselves" and "not fast food" are the steaks (and good luck getting a good one there). This place shares its menu (literally) with Fazolis. There are CCF-branded items on Fazolis menu the last time I went there. This is TGI Friday's level bullshit. They aren't some big-data driven Nostradamuses (Nostradami?), the link's just a gussed-up press release.