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the worst part of these videos is watching ProZD NOT realizing how fucked he's going to be when that video comes out with the new RU-vid policy in place.
Me watching in horror as he eats the first few items: "He's taking... such... huge... bites." Me seeing a shirt change, and realizing he didn't try 60 items in one day: " Oh thank god."
Please do a video of you rating dishes from your FAVORITE restaurant so you can enjoy doing at least one of these challenge videos. You've suffered enough
Not saying they should, but "Big Gun" might be a good play. I'm eating packaged ramen that hit the best by date in November, and I'd rather eat this over anything from Cheesecake Factory. Expired Spicy Shin with an beaten egg and "American" cheese mixed in with a fried egg on top, no contest.
@@preston9189 You haven't heard of the games Legendairy Cattleclysm or Moogic : the Gathering? You can look it up, in the mean time I'm going to set up for my cheese tasting phase.
I work at a CCF. Cheeseburger spring rolls do indeed slap and the Spicy Vodka pasta is the best pasta on the menu by a country mile. Seeing all these menu items out in the wild feels unreal after being surrounded by them day in and day out for so long. The menu is massive and most of it is bland or outright bad. They’re notorious for skimping out on sauces too. Edit: SungWon calling the Chicken Parm Pizza Style “an insult to food” is the most correct he’s ever been, what a revolting dish.
I worked at one ~15 years ago, and definitely did not understand the appeal of the Louisiana chicken pasta. It is literally oil and red pepper flakes with no sauce. I'm pretty sure the chicken quesadilla had bacon in it back then and was pretty good, but my go-to shift food was the cream of chicken with artichoke and mushroom soup the roughly 1 day a week they had it.
@@Pies_By_Arvid They now have cream of chicken 6 out of 7 days since they decided to cut down to just 3 soups instead of having a diff. soup each day. 2 Soups avail. each day with clam chowder being avail. only on Fridays. Truly a glorious time to be alive.
my favorite food I've ever eaten from CCF was the shrimp scampi/steak Diane plate, which I did eat in house. I was not a big fan of the pasta carbonara, though that's in part bc I got takeout and was eating it barely warm so it was gluey. Flavor wasn't super impressive, but it was at a catered event so at least it was free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you think it would have been different if he didn’t order them to-go? I feel like the few times I have gotten their food to-go either it will be less food or just taste worse idk
no S tiers handed out :( best food item: possibly culturally "blasphemous" cheeseburger springrolls @ 15:25 runner up: another appetizer in mozarella sticks @ 27:33 best cheesecake: 3 way tie between "sandwich cookie", smores, and vanilla bean best rated entres: meatloaf and "white-nonsense" :P tamales in A- tier 2 other appetizers were in the A- tier: potato tots, and buffalo wings some good food ratings: B+ 3:50 Spicy Rigatoni 16:27 Spicy cashew chicken - SungWon said it was better than any other offering at a certain other company 21:15 Orange chicken A- 12:11 potato tots 22:30 Buffalo wings 22:51 sweet corn tamales - not tamales - doesn't know what white non-sense this is :P, but he liked it 25:11 famous factory meatloaf - like a tv dinner, but he likes it :) A 27:33 mozarella sticks - good crisp A+ 15:25 Cheeseburger springrolls - deemed possibly blasphemous by SungWon Cheesecakes: B+ 10:34 Dulce De Leche (I don't speak Spanish, so I don't know if I spelt it right) A- 5:27 "sandwich cookie" Cheesecake 9:20 Smore's cheesecake on his bday 19:18 Vanilla bean cheesecake - SungWon likes the flavor worst rating: F 14:55 Skinnylicious asian chicken salad another bad rating D is for dynamite shrimp @ 23:17 reminds SungWon of shriveled male genitals an insult to food 23:50 D+ chicken parm addendum: I stand corrected, S tiers were given out 14:16 SungWon's mother's cooking - S tier!!!
I am irrationally excited to watch this dude eat food for the next 30 minutes, sung won could recite poetry for 30 minutes and I would probably still watch it
Hoping SungWon's friends were safely a few rooms away while he tried their dinners, because otherwise that must've been awkward as hell to hear someone talking about how bland the thing you're about to eat is.
Cheesecake Factory has a massive menu and excels at none of it. I only go there if I wanna share a slice of cheesecake with friends. Cause I can't finish them by myself, they're too rich for me, I wanna take a nap after a few bites of one.
The best thing I've had at Cheesecake Factory was the bread they give to your table at the beginning. It was so good, nothing else could really compare afterwards.
“Hi friends. Want to come over for dinner? We’re ordering from Cheesecake Factory, you can only order things we haven’t ordered before, and you have to let Sungwon taste everything first. Our treat!”
@@brookeoconnell4146 USD?? There's no CCF where I am, so this video and others like it are my only exposure to what they even offer, but that's so much money for *any* food, let alone food I can make quickly at home and make better. More laborious dishes are another matter, but pastas?? This is wild.
@@alienpotato1834 There is no world in which the cheese cake factory makes anything close to what is considered good "jambalaya" I would bet $100 it ain't even got spice worth putting on a spoon 🤣
The best cheesecake I ever had was a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in NYC that served ricotta cheesecake with a fresh berry sauce. Been chasing that high ever since. 😭 I don't think he's done Sonic yet, I'd love to see him navigate some of the drink mixes lol
I didn't realize how fun it would be to watch someone eat way more than I can! Recently got bariatric surgery and can only eat a few small bites per meal before I'm full. My eyes are SO MUCH bigger than my stomach now, it's crazy. Thanks for letting me indulge vicariously through you, Sungwon!
Re: the grocery board, it’s fun. Just like our house it takes a while before we get things off our list and it’s fun to watch things get added and removed!
I think I've been to the Cheesecake Factory all of once. I remember the cheesecake being solid, but I'm not surprised that the average menu item is kind of shit when their menu is roughly the size of the complete unabridged works of Tolkein. The storage situation has to be an absolute marvel, and I wouldn't be surprised if the freshness and stuff varies wildly.
I really don't understand how people do take out and then judge the food. Has anyone ever had leftover legit alfredo? You have to eat that shit hot and immediately. So many of these dishes are ones that would really never do well sitting for a while. And then when something is "bland without the sauce"... yeah. It's supposed to be. The flavors are supposed to go together. I'm just baffled every time I see people do "shit tons of takeout" videos cuz there's NO WAY it's gonna be the best that dish could be at that point. Especially when people do fast food versions of these videos. Like what? Cold fast food is not good? The hell you say! LOL
OK but as an Australian without access to this stuff, these videos are always 100% my jam and this one is no exception. I freaking LOVE cheesecake and there's no Cheesecake Factory here so I gotta live the experience like this until they open up down under. Cheers for the vid!
You're not missing much! Cheesecake Factory is a fever dream. The decor is incredibly garish and tacky and their menus are as thick as a novel. A suburban homage to capitalism.
Based on the time it takes to get food delivered, I feel like it rapidly effects the quality of the food vs, fresh at the restaurant. Though, I've never had CheeseFactory.
Theoretically, yes. Functionally, I'm not so sure in this case (I've had it delivered before and much of the time it was pretty much same same only sadder looking)
I love these videos. They are the best to watch when eating a meal yourself. And here I thought that The Cheesecake Factory was a bougie place with high quality food.
I'm very skeptical of anything out of Cheesecake Factory. For a menu that large, I doubt anything is being prepared in-house. The best item continues to be the brown bread.
I work there, our managers literally tell us not to let people order the Alfredo because it's made from scratch and tastes so plain (besides that there's too much nutmeg in the recipe), and the clientele we get typically expect like olive garden or Applebee's microwave Alfredo. In fact, there are a LOT of dishes that they tell us at all costs to make the guest pick something else lmao
@@xc7525 haha I'll try. A lot of it is pretty subjective and based less on the dish actually being terrible and more on the fact that we don't trust our usual clientele to have the appropriate pallette. Stuff that some people love but gets sent back with enough regularity that it's just not worth the trouble to sell given how fucking huge the menu is. Sometimes we just don't trust the kitchen to execute a particular dish. But then, there's times when the GM is like "here's our 5 new items for the winter rollout... These 4 suck, do not sell them, especially in this region. They'll be gone in 6 months". So I'll list what we're told to avoid selling, but it's not necessarily always that the dishes that are trash. Alfredo: as mentioned above. Plus the Carbonara, Cacio E Pepe, Farfalle, Chipotle pasta, Da Vinci, all have some sort of cream sauce and are much better, tastier and more complex dishes. Chicken and Broccoli pasta. This one actually just got axed. Actually better than Alfredo, but people come in, see "Chicken and Broccoli pasta" in a menu with 250 items and tiny print in a dark ass restaurant where it's hard to read, and just assume it's Alfredo with chicken and broccoli like Applebee's or olive garden. It's actually not a sauce based pasta, but has some other veggies, LOTS of garlic and oil. Not what people expect, so they'll send it back without trying it when they see it. Loaded Baked Potato tots: this one actually just got removed two days ago after almost 10 years of deception. I actually don't mind them, but the name implies crispy tots with bacon, cheese, sour cream on it. Not leftover mashed potatoes mixed with bacon and cheese and deep fried. A bit weird. Not bad but not what is advertised really. Sweet potato enchiladas: One of my personal fucking favorites, but didn't last long on the menu for obvious reasons. Loved that shit though. Stuffed cheddar burger: our burgers generally are great actually, provided there's a competent cook in that station for the shift. This one in particular sucks ass though, great idea, poor execution, it never comes out looking or tasting very appealing, and can't be cooked to order because of the cheese inside, which is a problem because a lot of picky "well done burger and steak" people come in. Teriyaki chicken: They wised up and removed it last year. Who tf orders teriyaki and is not upset when they get some weird, bone in chicken piece with teriyaki sauce on it? And we don't even have fucking fried rice, you just get plain white rice. California cheese steak: Another that lasted way too long, but is gone now. Mostly inoffensive, besides that the best idea they had for bread was to put it on a probably-already-cold piece of our hard, stale ass, shitty sourdough baguette. Chicken and Biscuits: This is in my personal top 5, although I avoided it for 5 years because it looks so fucking weird. It's essentially a blown up pot pie, grilled chicken, peas, mushrooms, carrots, onions in a gravy like mixture, a side of Mash potatoes, and then you get these two weird ass 'biscuits' that are really more like cornbread in texture and flavor. They are a bit sweet and actually not bad, but def don't taste like a biscuit, and they look worse than they taste too, for sure. Strawberry Shortcake: 3 of those same biscuits, but with some sugar sprinkled on, strawberries around it (not even glaze, just sugared berries), 3 scoops of ice cream, and some whip. Not really anything to do with what people associate with strawberry shortcake, besides strawberries. Plus they're a fucking pain in the ass to make and slow down the bakery. Paradise colada: Thankfully removed after one menu cycle. The name implies some new, unique, fruity blended drink with pineapple and coconut. For some reason, literally the strongest drink on the menu, passing the Mai Tai (which is pretty good), and tastes like hand sanitizer, or what I imagine the Passion Fruit Spray in 'Elf' tasted like. Most people give Will Ferrell's reaction when tasting this. Chicken Parm pizza style: Not usually as bad as in this video at my more established and competent location, but thank God we're out of this shit 5 days a week. It's fucking ground chicken, and spicy for some reason. Just not a good dish, the Parm sandwich and romano are definitely better choices (which isn't saying much, the romano is pretty bland and meh too, when the menu has several awesome chicken specialties to choose). 4 cheese pasta: Fine. But not very cheesy, and yet somehow worse than our regular marinara with the cheese addition (I actually love the spaghetti and meatballs). Then the dollop of ricotta on top makes the dish seem cold when stirred in. Not worth the trouble, there's many better pastas to choose, it's a boring ass dish. Truffle honey chicken: The truffle oil is actually not bad (and very fucking expensive apparently), but we get a looooot of clientele that sees honey and chicken and orders without a clue what truffle oil is. Very strong, pungent smell and taste that is completely off putting if you don't like it. Broccoli: we don't microwave shit (except I think spinach dip, but 6 of the 7 stations don't have access to a mic period), and they don't steam it for some reason, they just cook it in the pasta water, and it takes like 2 years to get edible. Exasperating the issue is the fact everyone orders well done, double steamed, extra soft or whatever... Gets sent back a lot, no matter how long they cook it. We have solid fries, mash, made from scratch to order Mac, and other veggies. No reason to order plain ass, hard broccoli stalk. Chicken Madeira: One of our best dishes, but since COVID supplies have been weird, and the new chicken product is hit or miss, sometimes still great, sometimes it's rubbery as hell. It's sad, but it's hard to recommend this amazing dish now. Meatloaf: It's actually awesome, all the comfort food is shockingly well done. But it's not cracker barrel meatloaf with ketchup, it's individually grilled, topped with sauteed onions, mushroom gravy... But we're in the southeast, this isn't what people expect when they say meatloaf. Chicken and waffles Benedict: We thankfully have regular chicken and waffles now, they're harmless. But this dish... Someone who's gonna order chicken and waffles at a place with this many options, not the type of person who's gonna want poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Bang bang chicken and shrimp: The name implies spicy, as does the menu description. Like with most "spicy" dishes on the menu, it's greatly exaggerated or outright false. The dish is sweet and fruity, with a very peanutty flavor, applesauce, coconut... Too much going on. In addition, your location has a lot to do with it. If it's a new location, good luck. But an established, competent staff can make a lot of great things there. It's a scratch kitchen, even fucking ranch, Bleu cheese, honey mustard, made fresh daily. It's funny when salads start getting sent back for tasting spicy, we know there's way too much garlic in the ranch. Thing is, it's impossible to properly execute a menu so large consistently on a daily basis, especially as busy and large as those restaurants typically are. The fact that it goes as smoothly as it does on an individual and corporate level is incredible to me.
This is giving me vibes of like, ProZD went to cheesecake and didn’t get seated for an hour and a half and is doing this as a hit piece to get back at them.
as someone who bussed for the cheesecake factory for 3 years. not one food is microwaved. its just all shit. the chefs have to learn so many dishes that they all come out bland to meet standards.
I'd like to know if your friends agreed with your views? How'd you get them to order from there? If it I did this, I'd have to pay for their meals to get them to agree to eat there 😂
Gotta try that clam chowder on fridays and saturdays that shit is bussin that was the only thing I was waiting for specifically. I think you would also be pleasantly surprised by the MANGO key lime cheesecake, the tartness brings something to the table.
I always appreciate it when people are honest when it comes to food. It can be really annoying when someone's clearly pretending to overly love or hate food. I remember one video where people were eating Australian food and with everything they tried they were like, "Ew, gross. It tastes like dog food. This is disgusting." But it was obvious they were faking it. Seriously, who reacts like that to a Tim Tam?
I had to have my gallbladder removed a year ago. Since then, I've liked going to The Cheesecake Factory because it doesn't give me a stomach ache. But in watching this video, I finally put together why. It's because it has like... no flavor. It's "white people nonsense," as you said... which just happens to be great for a person with no gallbladder.
Oh wow, really? Cheesecake Factory is known for two things, its cheesecake, and its preposterously long menu. There are at least 250 items spread over 20 pages, it's insane.
Considering Keith from the Try Guys refuses to do Cheesecake Factory until he's run out of other restaurant chains, I think this is the closest thing I'll see resembling that until it happens years down the line, so I absolutely salute you sir. This was an impressive undertaking. I have never been to the Factory, but I have always been mystified by it and wondered about its appeal. For some strange reason there's always a 45 minute at my local spot, and I'm happy to see I have been justified in eating elsewhere. One of these days I will make it down there though just to say I've done it, and now I'll have some semblance of an idea of what to order. For that I am extremely grateful for this cursed journey existing.
My friends got Cheesecake Factory during a con last year bc there was one across the street. I wasn't super hungry so I got the loaded potato tots. I had the same opinion as you in this video! They're actually really good! 😊
Cheesecake factory falls into that kinda place with way too many items on the menu and it's impossible for a kitchen to make them all at quality. They should trim it down by least sold items. I will say, there are a few staples I get there that I do enjoy, and the bread is great as well.
Excuse me for expecting a company called 'The Cheesecake Factory' to only make cheesecakes & Not Fettuccine Alfredo. Like, I guess I was just the idiot for thinking that.
I was so disappointed when I ordered their fettuccine alfredo and it was identical to the frozen kind you can get at Trader Joe's, down to the texture of the noodles, lmao. Another stellar video!
Sampling parts of friend's dishes reminds me of what if a poison food tester for a king ran a vlog for the royal dishes. "And here we have the fried porpoise nuggets... Lacking a little color on them." *mmff* "Ugh, I didn't know grease was supposed to be a seasoning. Zero flavor. The only thing the chef is feeding after this dish is the hounds after our Lord's blade has had a proper word with him."
