Companies/restaurant
Cheesecake Factory
Tim’s take
He treats Cheesecake Factory as shorthand for the worst of American food excess and consumer capitalism — the default unhealthy chain in his health-care rants 37:47 42:32, the target in a riff about empire-funded gluttony where he calls it "plastic lasagna full of poison" 55:06, and one of the food conglomerates he lumps in with Twinkies as culpable for addicting children 29:18. He also uses it as the reference point for absurd American portion sizes and appetizer culture 37:23.
Despite the contempt, he genuinely likes eating there — he orders the quesadillas over authentic LA Mexican food and praises the cheese steak and egg rolls on a road trip stop 14:17 1:06. He's also fixated on the building itself, calling its maximalist Greco-Roman-Egyptian architecture the most American restaurant design in the country 16:56 19:49, and folds it into throwaway bits like biting a busboy's ear there while blacked out or kids crying there for leftover food 20:01 1:03:50.
Every Reference (13)
"Can I ask you a question We get to Cheesecake Factory last night. Yeah, I was a cheesecake. Did you pay? Yeah,"
Cheesecake Factory Bribery Bit — Bribes and Bruschetta"then they graduate and then they become a waiter at the Cheesecake Factory. Yeah. You know what I mean? And I just like that's the"
Racquetball Class at 28 and the Hopelessness of Long Island — Underground Economy+44s into the segment"know go to the unhealthiest items in America I mean the Cheesecake Factory got a bunch I mean we won't do the whole episode talking"
Beverly Hills Cop: Touring Dark Money and Epstein's Financial Web — #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show+1995s into the segment"know go to the unhealthiest items in America I mean the Cheesecake Factory got a bunch I mean we won't do the whole episode talking"
Reading Denny's Menu Calorie Counts Live — #188 - Best of Patreon Vol. 1 | The Tim Dillon Show+431s into the segment"Angeles so what we've done is ordered quesadillas from the Cheesecake Factory because they are very good and a lot of the authentic Mexican"
Ordering Cheesecake Factory Quesadillas — #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show+16s into the segment"about the way it looks but it's I think the argument is Cheesecake Factory is the most American restaurant in the country which I think"
The Cheesecake Factory Aesthetic Thread — #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show+47s into the segment"after word but it is crazy like when you were sitting in a Cheesecake Factory like this doesn't even make hence you look around and it"
Noses, Highborn Faces, and Jews Running the World — #189 - Welcome To The Show, Hillary | The Tim Dillon Show+4s into the segment"mean the other night i got shellacked yeah i went to the cheesecake factory and started doing shots and it got political and it got"
No Days Wasted DHM Detox, with Producer Ben on Sobriety — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+119s into the segment"finger time for Twitter um including an hour stop at the Cheesecake Factory where do you remember uh I don't know the name of that town"
The Michael Che Feud Over the SNL Joe Rogan Sketch — #277 - The New American Dream | The Tim Dillon Show+38s into the segment"and then you can all go home with the food that you just got from the Cheesecake Factory. They give you some leftover food, maybe they give you a big thing of mashed ters"
Powdered Mashed Potatoes and Divorced Dad Meals — #299 - Family Recipe | The Tim Dillon Show+128s into the segment"when you go to a mall and you have the Cheesecake Factory and [ __ ] Johnny Rockets and [ __ ] every fast food McDonald's chipotle the food court"
Food Addiction: Ordering Three Things and Never Being Full — Bobby Kelly | The Tim Dillon Show #322+229s into the segment"you want to go out to restaurants like Maggiano's and the Cheesecake Factory and eat plastic lasagna full of poison every day, SOMEONE'S"
Blaming Empire and Consumerism for Foreign Policy Blowback — Degree Of Difficulty | The Tim Dillon Show #365+124s into the segment"these conglomerates cannot I'm talking about everything from the Cheesecake Factory to Twinkies everything that we eat for the most part is directly in the scope of RFK"
Fat Children, Poisoned Food Supply, and RFK's War on Snacks — CEO Assassinations & Christmas In New York | The Tim Dillon Show #420+53s into the segment