Fight With You At The Cheesecake Factory, You Know I Hate It There

I do not care for, enjoy, or want to ever again go to Cheesecake Factory. The factory part renders the cheesecake part an unavailing ruckus.

Andrew Donaldson
6 min readJun 12, 2021
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“Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake?” Drake asked in his song “Child’s Play”, “You know I love to go there.” Well, I’m not a big fan of half-mumbled autotuned rap either, though I can appreciate it from time to time, so I reckon we aren’t destined to be best friends anytime soon. So it goes with the disappointments we have to live with in life…

Anywho…yes, it is true: I do not care for, enjoy, or want to ever again go to The Cheesecake Factory. Even though I can appreciate it parts of it from time to time.

Logically, I should like The Cheesecake Factory. I love good cheesecake above all other desserts, even my beloved and adored apple pie. And you have to understand I love me some apple pie. The food is almost all made from scratch to order, something I greatly appreciate as a food lover, amateur cook, and writer of edible things good, bad, and the “my God what was that” in the culinary world. The company consistently ranks high on the “Best Places to Work” lists and apparently treats their folks well. The fact that the general public LOVES…

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Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media