THE MAGIC STARTS IN OUR BAKERIES

Join us in creating our world-famous cheesecakes

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baking

Inspect, weigh and mix ingredients to perfection. Spin our delicious graham cracker crust into pans before layering on the creamy batter.
  • 43,000 lbs.
    of cream cheese and
  • 5,500 lbs. of flour go into our cheesecakes daily
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topping

Get hands-on with our cheesecakes by applying special glazes and toppings and assembling our hybrid and layer cakes.
  • 38,000 cakes are made in our bakeries each day
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finishing

Put the final touches on our cakes, like chocolate shavings and candy bar pieces, before boxing them up for our guests to enjoy.
  • 156,000 Snickers® bars and
  • 9 million Oreos® go into our cheesecakes each year
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tasting

Have your cake and eat it too! We like to taste our creations to make sure our guests are always getting the best.

THE MAGIC STARTS IN OUR BAKERIES

Join us in creating our world-famous cheesecakes

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A SLICE OF OUR HISTORY

Our world-famous cheesecakes started from a newspaper recipe in a basement kitchen.

Cheesecake Restaurant

The Cheesecake Factory story begins in Detroit, Michigan in the 1940’s. Evelyn Overton found a recipe in the local newspaper that would inspire her “Original” Cheesecake. Everyone loved her recipe so much that she decided to open a small Cheesecake shop, but she eventually gave up her dream of owning her own business in order to raise her two small children, David and Renee. She moved her baking equipment to a kitchen in her basement and continued to supply cakes to several of the best restaurants in town while raising her family. Read More...

In 1972, with their children grown, Evelyn and her husband Oscar decided to pack up all of their belongings and move to Los Angeles to make one last attempt at owning their own business. With the last of their savings, they opened The Cheesecake Factory Bakery and began selling Evelyn’s cheesecakes to restaurants throughout Los Angeles. Through hard work and determination their business grew and Evelyn was soon baking more than 20 varieties of cheesecakes and other desserts.

With great foresight and intuition, their son David decided to open a restaurant to showcase his mother’s selection of cheesecakes. Somehow he just knew that guests would enjoy a restaurant with an extensive dessert menu. It was 1978 and he opened the first The Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Beverly Hills, CA. The restaurant was an immediate success and today there are more than 200 The Cheesecake Factory restaurants around the world that serve our delicious cheesecakes. Less...

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