Much of what they cook is pasta. Are the ingredients "dried pasta"? Are they cooking the sauces themselves, after stewing tomatoes for 6 hours? Or do those come out of a can?
I'm guessing that for the pasta, they're boiling water. The rest of their menu looks like cheeseburgers and sandwiches. So maybe they're frying up a frozen patty once in awhile. Are they baking the bread and buns for these sandwiches themselves?
They also have alot of weird appetizers. Are they wrapping those spring rolls themselves, or do those come frozen out of a box and ready to deep fry? Fried cheese sticks, asparagus, and zucchini... are you telling me those are hand-breaded, or do they come frozen out of a box?
(Before you answer, consider carefully if someone who has never wrapped a spring roll before can get it right on even the 10th try after watching a 40 second tutorial video on the ipad they have bolted up above the prep table.)
There are half a dozen soups. Are those not coming out of a can?
Crusted/breaded chicken... that's not coming out of the box frozen?
Oh, looks like you can get onion rings. Are those not coming frozen out of the box to be deep-fried? French fries?
When I get the crispy pineapple chicken and shrimp, are you telling me that they cut up a pineapple that morning for when that's ordered, or do they cut up the pineapple when I order it? Or, is it frozen in a plastic bag, like those god-awful stir-fries you get in the frozen section at the grocery store?
Did they slice the corn off the cob that morning themselves, or does that come out of a plastic bag, all flash-frozen?
Do they have a rice steamer in the back, or is that in one of those plastic per-serving bags that are microwaved?
The only stuff on this menu that are both "made themselves" and "not fast food" are the steaks (and good luck getting a good one there).
This place shares its menu (literally) with Fazolis. There are CCF-branded items on Fazolis menu the last time I went there. This is TGI Friday's level bullshit. They aren't some big-data driven Nostradamuses (Nostradami?), the link's just a gussed-up press release.
I was able to roll spring rolls pretty well in around 10 minutes of practice, although the prep area required might be difficult for a chain restaurant.
I don't really eat at the cheesecake factory so I can't speak to that.
Any one of those are things they might do, quickly and easily and with little practice. All of them, or even half?
They're not doing them. Any of them. If someone made such extraordinary claims, reasonable people would require extraordinary evidence.
I've provided quite a bit of corroboration to the idea that they're not doing any of it. Sure, my case is circumstantial, but I think that's permissible outside of a criminal courtroom, where the accusation is "non-crime, doing it like everyone else" without so much as the hint of slander.
You're all nuts. Nothing said on HN outside of a very narrow focus of technology should ever be taken for granted.
I'm guessing that for the pasta, they're boiling water. The rest of their menu looks like cheeseburgers and sandwiches. So maybe they're frying up a frozen patty once in awhile. Are they baking the bread and buns for these sandwiches themselves?
They also have alot of weird appetizers. Are they wrapping those spring rolls themselves, or do those come frozen out of a box and ready to deep fry? Fried cheese sticks, asparagus, and zucchini... are you telling me those are hand-breaded, or do they come frozen out of a box?
(Before you answer, consider carefully if someone who has never wrapped a spring roll before can get it right on even the 10th try after watching a 40 second tutorial video on the ipad they have bolted up above the prep table.)
There are half a dozen soups. Are those not coming out of a can?
Crusted/breaded chicken... that's not coming out of the box frozen?
https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/menu
Oh, looks like you can get onion rings. Are those not coming frozen out of the box to be deep-fried? French fries?
When I get the crispy pineapple chicken and shrimp, are you telling me that they cut up a pineapple that morning for when that's ordered, or do they cut up the pineapple when I order it? Or, is it frozen in a plastic bag, like those god-awful stir-fries you get in the frozen section at the grocery store?
Did they slice the corn off the cob that morning themselves, or does that come out of a plastic bag, all flash-frozen?
Do they have a rice steamer in the back, or is that in one of those plastic per-serving bags that are microwaved?
The only stuff on this menu that are both "made themselves" and "not fast food" are the steaks (and good luck getting a good one there).
This place shares its menu (literally) with Fazolis. There are CCF-branded items on Fazolis menu the last time I went there. This is TGI Friday's level bullshit. They aren't some big-data driven Nostradamuses (Nostradami?), the link's just a gussed-up press release.