The Cheesecake Factory Is Removing These 13 Menu Items — And Adding 22

The Cheesecake Factory is removing 13 items from its menu to make room for new offerings.
Among the items being discontinued are the everything flatbread pizza and seared ahi tuna salad.
New menu items include the double smash cheeseburger, grilled branzino, and steak frites.

The Cheesecake Factory, which is famous for its big portions and even bigger menu, is updating its offerings with nearly two dozen new items.

Nation’s Restaurant News reported that The Cheesecake Factory updates its menu, which has over 200 items, roughly twice a year.

To make space for new dishes, the chain is also discontinuing 13 items, including its mushroom-topped burger and two items off its “SkinnyLicious” menu.

The Cheesecake Factory menu items that are being discontinued include:

Everything flatbread pizza
Mushroom burger
Seared ahi tuna salad
White chicken chili
Spicy cashew chicken
Bistro shrimp pasta
Fried shrimp platter
Petite filet
Factory Combinations
Loaded mashed potato omelet
Taco Dorados and eggs
SkinnyLicious lemon herb Parmesan chicken
SkinnyLicious spicy shrimp pasta

The Cheesecake Factory is also adding 22 new menu items, from burgers and sandwiches to vegetable appetizers.

Many of the new menu items align with the biggest trends in fast-food and casual dining. Among the new menu items, the chain added a smashed double cheeseburger and spicy chicken and jalapeño fritters to its lineup.

Smash burgers and spicy chicken remain two of the most popular menu trends, with other chains like Chili’s and Sonic Drive-In leaning into those categories in the past year.

Here are all the new menu items now available at The Cheesecake Factory.

Grilled asparagus

The grilled asparagus comes served on a bed of lemon ricotta with toasted almonds.

Honey-roasted carrots

The carrots are slow-roasted and glazed in maple brown butter.

Charred sugar snap peas

The snap peas are seared with fresh herbs and dressed in a chile-lime vinaigrette.

Asian cucumber salad

The salad comes with crispy cucumbers, sesame, soy, garlic, and mild red chiles.

Ahi tuna and shrimp ceviche

The Cheesecake Factory Ahi Tuna & Shrimp Ceviche — Ahi tuna and shrimp ceviche.

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The ceviche is made from sushi-grade ahi tuna and poached shrimp, per the chain. It’s tossed with green onion, cilantro, and lime juice, and served with guacamole and corn tortillas.

Chicken and jalapeño fritters

The Cheesecake Factory Chicken & Jalapeno Fritters — Chicken and jalapeño fritters.

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The fritters are lightly battered and fried with fire-roasted chiles, cheddar cheese, and green onion.

Chicken shawarma

The chicken shawarma is served in a halved pita with grilled chicken, tomato, homemade pickles, onion, garlic, and cilantro.

It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.

Mortadella Panino

The Mortadella Panino is made with Mortadella, melted fontina cheese, lemon ricotta, arugula, and onion garlic aioli on toasted ciabatta bread.

It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.

Double Smash cheeseburger

The new burger comes with two patties, two slices of cheese, grilled onions, and special sauce on a toasted Brioche roll.

It comes with french fries or a green salad on the side.

Thai stir-fried noodles

It’s made with Asian rice noodles, snow peas, shiitake mushrooms, bean sprouts, green onion, egg, cilantro, and chopped peanuts.

The dish is also available with shrimp.

Seared tuna tataki salad

While one tuna salad is exiting the menu, this new salad has sushi-grade ahi tuna seared to a rare temperature, avocado, tomato, sesame, soy, and cilantro with mixed greens tossed in a shallot vinaigrette.

Grilled branzino

The new entrée is a charbroiled branzino fish fillet with lemon and fresh herbs, mashed potatoes, and green beans.

SkinnyLicious branzino

The Cheesecake Factory SkinnyLicious Grilled Branzino — SkinnyLicious grilled branzino.

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The SkinnyLicious version of the branzino is grilled with tomato, basil, shallots, and garlic. It comes with mashed potatoes and green beans.

Steak frites

The new steak frites come with a charbroiled rib-eye steak in a red wine sauce, grilled onions, and garlic-herb butter and is served with Parmesan french fries.

Spicy ginger beef tenderloin

The Asian-inspired dish comes with pieces of filet mignon sautéed with shiitake mushrooms, snap peas, peppers, and onion, with a spicy sesame-ginger sauce. It’s served with a side of white rice.