New CHEESECAKE FACTORY to open in Novi!

The Cheesecake Factory will open its first Michigan restaurant at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi later this year, Taubman Centers said today.

The Cheesecake Factory can be found in nearly three dozen states, but Twelve Oaks Mall will be the popular chain's first Michigan restaurant.

For years, real estate developers in Michigan tried to convince the restaurant chain to open in the state. The restaurant offers an extensive, full-service menu ranging from seafood to steaks along with, of course, a large dessert menu that includes more than two dozen cheesecake choices.
Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers said the Cheesecake Factory will operate an 8,430-square-foot restaurant at Twelve Oaks that will accommodate approximately 225 guests and another 60 on the patio.

“Having grown up in Detroit and watched my parents start their cheesecake business here in the 1950s, opening a Cheesecake Factory at Twelve Oaks feels like a true homecoming,” David Overton, founder and CEO of the Cheesecake Factory said in a statement.

Founded in 1978, the Cheesecake Factory operates 177 restaurants in the U.S.