[ALERT] For The First Time in More Than a Decade The Cheesecake Factory Has A New Location Coming to Metro Atlanta

A new location of The Cheesecake Factory is coming to metro Atlanta and it's not the size or location you might expect.  While most existing locations of The Cheesecake Factory are close to 10,000 square feet, the new one will be about 6,500 square feet, part of a push by the Beverly Hills-based concept to expand into smaller markets with smaller locations.  

The new restaurant is slated to open at The Collection Forsyth in Cumming.  The new Cheesecake Factory will open at 410 Peachtree Parkway, Suite 242, in place of Wild Wing Cafe, which closed at the mixed-use development December 1, 2024.  

At The Collection, Cheesecake Factory joins several other casual sit-down restaurants including Ted's Montana Grill, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Marlow's Tavern, Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q, and Red Robin.   

The Cheesecake Factory first entered the Atlanta market in 1993 with a location on Peachtree Road in Buckhead marking just the eighth nationwide for the chain.  That location later moved to Lenox Square in 2014.  The company also operates restaurants in Dunwoody (Perimeter Mall, 2000) Alpharetta (North Point Mall, 2004), Cumberland (Cumberland Mall, 2006), and its "newest" in Buford (Mall of Georgia, 2013).  

In addition to opening smaller restaurants, Cheesecake Factory is also looking to grow some of its smaller brands.  Many of these smaller brands were acquired in 2019 as part of the company acquisition of Fox Restaurant Concepts and include brands such as The Henry, Culinary Dropout, North Italia, and Flower Child, the latter three concepts with existing Atlanta area units.  

The company currently operates Flower Child restaurants in Buckhead, Sandy Springs, and West Midtown; North Italia restaurants in Buckhead and Dunwoody; and Culinary Dropout in Dunwoody.  (Culinary Dropout closed in West Midtown in January 2025 after about thirteen months in business) 

One brand not being expanded is Grand Lux Cafe, which the company closed at Phipps Plaza in Buckhead in May 2023 and has shrunk as a chain to just seven units nationally.  

Construction on the new Cheesecake Factory in Cumming is already underway, and it should open before the end of the year.  

Are you excited for the opening of The Cheesecake Factory in Cumming?  Where else in metro Atlanta would you like to see Cheesecake Factory open?  What other Cheesecake Factory owned brand would you like to see open or expand in metro Atlanta?

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