The Cheesecake Factory Named to Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ List

Only Restaurant Company Named on List for Seven Consecutive Years

CALABASAS HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (NASDAQ: CAKE) has been recognized as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® for the seventh consecutive year, according to Fortune and Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. The Cheesecake Factory® ranked No. 12 on the list, which recognizes companies with a strong culture, determined in large part by an anonymous employee survey that measures 60 attributes including camaraderie, leadership effectiveness and staff members’ daily experiences of the company’s values.

“The Cheesecake Factory is honored to be named on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list again this year,” said David Overton, Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated. “For more than forty years we have strived to create a very special company with a rich culture, and this award is a wonderful recognition of what our more than 46,000 staff members and managers have helped us create.”

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About The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is a leader in experiential dining. We are culinary forward and relentlessly focused on hospitality. Delicious, memorable experiences created by passionate people – this defines who we are and where we are going. We currently own and operate 294 restaurants throughout the United States and Canada under brands including The Cheesecake Factory®, North Italia® and a collection within the Fox Restaurant Concepts subsidiary. Internationally, 26 The Cheesecake Factory® restaurants operate under licensing agreements. Our bakery division operates two facilities that produce quality cheesecakes and other baked products for our restaurants, international licensees and third-party bakery customers. In 2020, we were named to the FORTUNE Magazine “100 Best Companies to Work For®” list for the seventh consecutive year. To learn more, visit www.thecheesecakefactory.com, www.northitaliarestaurant.com and www.foxrc.com.

About the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list

Great Place to Work based its ranking on a data-driven methodology applied to anonymous Trust Index™ survey responses from more than 650,000 employees at Great Place to Work-Certified organizations across the country. To learn more about Great Place to Work Certification and recognition on Best Workplaces lists published with Fortune, visit Greatplacetowork.com.

About Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. They help organizations quantify their culture and produce better business results by creating a high-trust work experience for all employees. Emprising®, their culture management platform, empowers leaders with the surveys, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. They use their unparalleled benchmark data to recognize Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies and the Best Workplaces™ in the US and more than 60 countries, including the 100 Best Companies to Work For® list published annually in Fortune. To learn more, visit Greatplacetowork.com.

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