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[HELP] Cheesecake factory references??? (Patreon)

Published:
2026-01-25 23:01:43
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2026-06

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I'm animating this one this week.

Are there any cheesecake factory inside-jokes/background references I can make?

They don't exist in the UK and it kind of just looks like a nice restaurant 😅

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Leo

the menu is a NOVEL (it's literally like 25 pages long) and the lighting looks like the eye of Sauron EDIT: i realized that these are the most obvious things about cheesecake factory and now i feel silly

Connor Crehan

They're well known for having long menus with a ton of items

Logan Rhamy

Their menu is massive and has a ridiculous amount of cheese cake options. Least last time I went.

V Wegman

Extremely long menus. Infamously pages and pages of a menu

BlasianIvy

Menus that are a million pages long Though I think it's not like that anymore? But man they were huge

Beans

That’s exactly what they look like!

Logan Rhamy

Still the case… over 250 items 😳😳😳

Patrick Nielsen

Joining the chorus of very long menus. Also all of the dishes are like 3000 calories?

Mandy Warneke

idk about all cheesecake factories but every one i’ve ever been to is SO dark, they use a lot of low warm lighting and i think it’s for ambiance but it mostly i just can’t see

Pyro

I've only been once but the menu is so fuckin big dude, it's like the titular cheesecake is an afterthought on it like it's genuinely the longest/thickest menu I've ever seen

BlasianIvy

Lol the people agree

Elizabeth Gaines Johnston (GildedSerpents)

The menu is incredibly long...tons of pages of all kinds of food. Plus, they offer something like 20 or more different flavors of cheesecake every day. And the serving sizes are VERY generous.

Maia

1. the universally-understood best item at cheesecake factory is the avocado egg roll so you could have like an entire table all eating them 2. i do think it'd be funny if you set it in an actual factory making cheesecakes with signs saying "i'm british"

Sam Rapine

Inevitably wedged into the corner of the mall.

Jackie Bermingham

They briefly existed in Canada, so I don't know much about them. Penny from the Big Bang Theory worked there, so maybe those guys?

cam chowder

- DaVinci Pasta - Mac and cheese balls - the atmosphere is very grandiose and elegant despite have medium food at best

Beans

The inside is very dark and decor always gives me like off vegas like someone described kind of what Vegas looks like and they like close enough. They all kind of have the same layout, like big chandeliers, weird light fixtures that are coming down that give me fancy stalagmites. And it’s the kind of places where the servers where white button ups and black tie.

Margaret Cross

The menu is HUGE. Having it be a thick tome that THUDS on the table could be a good bit. The decor is strange, sort of elements of Versailles and Egyptian throne rooms? And they bring 2 small loaves, one of of brown bread and one white bread. Also you've reminded me we are going to the one in Orlando this week for my parents 49th anniversary... it's actually quite good.

Emily Moyers

The biggest thing I can think of is the menu. It's so tall and so skinny and also 90 pages. Also I feel like the portions (especially the cheesecake slices) are *enormous*.

Charles Arthur

Also, DBI, google "cheesecake factory eye of sauron". Leo was understating it. That light is an official seal away from being in collaboration with the Tolkien estat

Emily Moyers

Also the lighting is so dim and warm, and for some reason the decor is like... idk, Mediterranean ruins??

RoxyRocketeer

The lighting looks like the Eye of Sauron, the menus are a thousand pages long, they have have a Skinnylicious menu for lighter food but it's still thousands of calories for a single salad, and white women LOVE the Cheesecake Factory for first dates.

BigSlice

The menu is a multi-chapter tome with index tabs to help you navigate. They have far too many options for them to actually be able to execute anything better than "acceptable." The restaurant's interior sports a unique and quirky aesthetic, which is inexplicably manages to be the epitome of bland soulless corporate design. Possibly the most apt description I ever heard was from a friend who worked as a waiter at the Chicago location: "Cheesecake Factory is a shitty theme restaurant, like Rainforest Cafe or Hooters. Except instead of wildlife or titties, the theme is 'fine dining'."

Beans

It’s so dark

Gracie Kingbird

had to come into the comments just to make sure someone had the sauron lights covered! they should be pretty easy to find on google

Beans

I think this is the funniest solution

WhatAlsaid!

Probably the fact that their interior is needlessly opulent WAY more quality than the actual food. Imagine the interior of a five star restaurant in Paris, and now imagine that same restaurant but if they served mall food. That’s basically Cheesecake Factory.

Joseph Von Hazard

Head chef at Cheesecake Factory is chef Mike. Mike Rowave (microwave).

Alex Knapp

Picture the most high of monuments to man’s hubris, condensed into a restaurant with, as many someones have mentioned, a small tome of a menu. Assuming I copied and pasted right, a sample image also. They all, to my experience, look the same, much like the motel in the game Control, and likely are in fact connected in an inter-dimensional liminal space. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ubGlxBsBIYwK6BzSnD38CrY-xrk=/0x0:3264x1836/1200x800/filters:focal(1371x657:1893x1179)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/55370191/cheesecake_factory_austin.0.jpg

Jason M. Bryant

It might be fun if you put the cast of the Big Bang Theory in the backgroud. A couple of characters worked there at the beginning of the show. An image search will give a ton of examples.

Max

Throw in some of the most insane cheesecake flavors you can imagine. Ross’s Royal Icing and Rosemary Soufflé Cheesecake clocking in at 26000 calories a slice

Ben Snow

The menu is the size of a phone book, or at least you could exaggerate for effect. There's something like 200 items. The food is heavy (at least calorically). Maybe a certain Mr. Mulligan is getting a to-go bag or plate dropped on him? I don't remember who's in the MSN episode. I'm almost certain that the restaurant Drawfee had a bit during the lockdowns where they got hyped about going to when it was all over was a Cheesecake Factory. No idea if they did.

Bridget B.

It’s not a human-scale place. Huge menu, huge portions, big opulent decor (including the booths), huge sprawling buildings. Even the ones in downtown areas are weirdly big for where they’re located.

DeepBlueInk

No! I need obvious! I literally didn't know either of these things. This is perfect.

DeepBlueInk

Perfect for a Shakespearean Soliloquy... Yes... Good... Good...

Cory!

One thing i don't see mentioned is that the food is pretty mid. There's so many options, there's no way they can do all of it well, so they do none of it well.

DeepBlueInk

Well I googled it, absolutely expecting it to look like a fast food joint/diner-type place and on first glance it looks gorgeous?? 😅

tayycro

the brown bread is so so SO good.

DeepBlueInk

I genuinely googled "Cheesecake Factory interior" and presumed it was showing me something else, because this is not what I expected Cheesecake Factory to look like

Setsune Wave

I humbly suggest a brief flash of the restaurant looking like the Mario's Cement Factory Game & Watch.

ejaybugboy3

The main joke of Cheesecake Factory is that their menu is so ridiculously long. There's over 100 items. It's insane. The brown bread is fantastic and their aforementioned cheesecake is so dense.

Christian Fuller

Exaggeration is the word of the day with Cheesecake Factory. All the food is beige, EVERYTHING has a drizzle of something, the healthiest menu item is deep-fried cheesecake balls, etc. All clearly not true, but believable for CF. Oh, and their high concept is "Chasing Deliciousness."

Lisa-and-Shadow

Very long menu and the weird tower thing in the decor looks like the Black Tower of Sauron with the Eye on top lmao

Hannah Weber

It feels like a liminal space. I walk in the door, consume all the calories, I leave and somehow 2 hours have passed. And if you go during the day, you are absolutely blinded by the sun when you exit because of how dark it is.

Stefan

Not sure if anyone said it yet, but it's *very* popular with NBA teams. The players like it because they're in most major markets and have broad, consistent options.

Alex Knapp

I also called it a liminal space!! It warps reality as you know it

Lone

The dining parties at a Cheesecake Factory seem to be exclusively business lunchers and unbelievably huge families.

Stefan

To add, the McElboys have also mentioned visiting for those same reasons, so they could make a cameo.

brnnyb

drawfee’s what we’re thankful for in 2020 was very cheesecake factory centric 😳 little crossover easter egg perhaps

ejaybugboy3

I think it qualifies as a novel. But seriously, no restaurant needs more than 50 items tops.

Phoenix Bryan

When you first walk in, next to the hostess stand, there is a display of their myriad cheesecakes with a separate cashier, as many people choose to simply enter, purchase some titular cheesecake, then leave. The interior is oddly dim and cavernous but otherwise a pleasant enough chain restaurant. The real shock comes when you are presented with a white menu, laminated in plastic with a curly black binder. This menu is enormous. It can span an adult man's chest if placed sideways and has page after page after page of options. There are literally over 250 options. It is fucking madness - the perfect example of America's eager consumerism of mediocrity and excess all at once. That said, the cheesecake is pretty tasty and I don't hate the chicken alfredo.

Sarah

Echoing everyone about the long menu. If it helps as reference, Keith from the Try Guys has an "Eat Everything" series and his videos about Eating Everything on the Cheesecake Factory menu takes 3 videos, and each video is an hour long.

BunSum

* The design of the interior could be considered Global Village Coffeehouse, popular in the '90s * Some individual slices of cheesecake can crest 1800 calories. Paired with an appetizer, entree, and drink, you can knock out a 5k+ calorie meal and not even notice. * I'm a really big fan and I wish there was one in my town 😭

Elena Mihajlov

Not sure I've seen this outright mentioned, but free bread & butter is provided with unlimited refills. There are two types they give you: a white sourdough, and (as alluded to by other commenters) an outstanding brown bread with a slightly sweet flavor.

thugdoubt

Lots of folks talking about the size of the menu, but the caloric content can't be overstated. Went there for brunch recently- of their entire list of breakfast items, all but two were over 1,000 calories. This is the lighter end of the spectrum.

Julia Pallan

My mom worked for cheesecake factory. The restaurant is so obsessed with cleanliness that they judge the servers based on the cleanliness of the inside of the ketchup bottle nozzles at the end of the day. The kitchen is one of the largest in a consumer restaurant. Every ingredient is prepped every three days. Every three days when the restaurant gets their food delivery there is one person called the "steward" whose job it is to put everything away. It's so much food that it takes them their entire shift. They have multiple giant walk-ins, and the servers are only allowed into the one. The cheesecake comes frozen from a commissary bakery. For a long time all the servers were required wear white and they switched to black because it's so hard to keep them clean the whole day.

Jennifer Smith

The menu being absolutely massive you could do a background thing of people absolutely drowning in the menu. also if you’re open to it a reference to the Big Bang theory might also work, even though that’s not an accurate reflection of the cheesecake factory

Yassified_Paperclip

I have??? Photos of my husband and I eating at a cheesecake factory (our first cheesecake factory experience) if you want DMs of random interior decor/menus/food we ordered??

Nathan Estes

They are known for the novel that is their menu

Austin Priest

If you need an establishing shot, Cheesecake factories are gigantic, and almost exclusively in the middle of a mall parking lot

DeepBlueInk

Hahaha that's commitment to the cause thank you, but no I think I've got a good idea about the decor/insane portions now

Dean Evinger Jr

Feel free to put Sheldon and/or Young Sheldon and /or Bazinga in their somehow. Big Bang Theory is pretty famous for many many scenes of it taking place in a Cheesecake Factory. Or maybe not, since this isn't a Drawfee animated? I don't know how many people associate Cheesecake Factory with the Big Bang Theory.

Rachel Dellon Rebstock

They do have a "skinnylicious" segment of items that are supposedly healthier. Mostly salads and things not doused in metric tons of dairy, I think.

Rachel Dellon Rebstock

I don't think I've been to one since 2020, so maybe this isn't as true any more, but I remember the wait times for the ones in malls in particular being absolutely ridiculous. You'd show up, get your name on the list, wander around the mall for about three hours until the little buzzer they gave you went off, and then wait another half hour for them to actually get the table ready. By which time you were so hungry that you'd eat all the bread and appetizers on top of the huge main portions and barely have any room left for cheesecake.

Tenshi

Also if you wanna tie in Dropout/College humor lore, there was a webisode of Emily and Murphy's sketch series "Hot Date" centered on a ridiculous "skinny bitch menu", which is a direct reference to Cheesecake factory's "Glam" diet menu and the way the dishes were named and marketed. Grant plays a dom waiter in this. It's great. https://youtu.be/gwChStnnidA?si=HaIN0Erj0juaoG0x

Jessiye Davis

the joke is that the menu is tooooo huge

Jessiye Davis

but also the table bread is very coveted. they have this brown bread that is i think pumperknickle and really tasty and its warm and served with butter along with some sourdough

Jessiye Davis

the decor is also.... maybe Egyptian but not? Like if generative ai was guessing at Egyptian

Elijah

Nth+ comment for the brown bread. You can get it in a grocery store, but it's not the same. In restaurant it's much softer. The menu is extensive like everyone has said, but it's actually pretty good. Normally you'd expect a menu like that to be phoning it in just to say they have something. The cheesecake is adequate.