Sidebar: Dear Internet, You're Wrong About The Cheesecake Factory
Love Letters
The Boston Globe
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. We have a really fun sidebar for you today and it's all about a |
| 0:09.5 | restaurant that holds a very special place in my heart. But first a quick story. A few weeks ago a bunch of people |
| 0:16.1 | sent me a Tik-Toc video. I'm sure a lot of you probably saw it too. It was of a woman who had gone on a first |
| 0:22.3 | date with a man, |
| 0:23.2 | and she was refusing to get out of the car when she realized |
| 0:26.4 | she had been taken to a cheesecake factory. |
| 0:29.2 | This is the cheesecake factory. |
| 0:35.0 | This is the cheesecake factory y'all. What's the problem with that? |
| 0:37.0 | This hit me in my soul. |
| 0:40.0 | Seriously. |
| 0:41.0 | And then a few days later, my heart broke again. |
| 0:44.5 | The list of places women supposedly will never go on a first date, went viral. |
| 0:48.7 | I have no idea who wrote it, but it just went everywhere. |
| 0:52.1 | On the list, Cheesecake Factory took number one, |
| 0:54.7 | followed by the Olive Garden, Chipotle, and Chili's. |
| 0:58.2 | Agree. |
| 0:59.2 | So fast food is on the list. |
| 1:00.1 | I couldn't believe this, and honestly, I couldn't take it. The Cheesecake Factory has been this weird consistent |
| 1:05.1 | force in my life where I know that no matter where I am if there's a Cheesecake Factory, I just like know I can find consistency |
| 1:11.5 | and the same thing at every place. |
| 1:13.7 | And as somebody who fears change, that is important to me. |
| 1:17.0 | So I texted my producer, Jesse, and we decided to prove the world wrong. |
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