nsxtasy wrote:

Dave148 wrote:Cheesecake Factory wasn’t around in the 70s.

Correct, if you're referring to the location in Skokie. The first Cheesecake Factory location was in Beverly Hills and opened in 1978. As I mentioned above, I was guessing that the Old Orchard location opened around 1990, but I could be off by as much as five years in either direction.

Yes = the location in Old Orchard

nsxtasy wrote:

Dave148 wrote:Cheesecake Factory wasn’t around in the 70s.

As I mentioned above, I was guessing that the Old Orchard location opened around 1990, but I could be off by as much as five years in either direction.

I believe it opened in ‘93/‘94.

Side note: was putting tiny shrimp on a salad a thing on the north shore (or writ large) in the 1980s? Some of my earliest dining memories as a child are of Timber’s in Highland Park doing in the same.

Sorry if I have misinterpreted something. The long list of restaurants that has been repeated a number of times in this thread states that it lists Skokie restaurants of the "past". I was pointing out that several of the restaurants on the list are actually still in existence. I did not mean to communicate that they were in existence in 1970. I understand from another email above, that the person who compiled that list of restaurants from the past has apparently compiled a more accurate list since.

chezbrad wrote:

nsxtasy wrote:

Dave148 wrote:Cheesecake Factory wasn’t around in the 70s.

As I mentioned above, I was guessing that the Old Orchard location opened around 1990, but I could be off by as much as five years in either direction.

I believe it opened in ‘93/‘94.

Side note: was putting tiny shrimp on a salad a thing on the north shore (or writ large) in the 1980s? Some of my earliest dining memories as a child are of Timber’s in Highland Park doing in the same.

Summer of 1996.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/cheesecake-factory-inc

boudreaulicious wrote:

chezbrad wrote:

nsxtasy wrote:

Dave148 wrote:Cheesecake Factory wasn’t around in the 70s.

As I mentioned above, I was guessing that the Old Orchard location opened around 1990, but I could be off by as much as five years in either direction.

I believe it opened in ‘93/‘94.

Side note: was putting tiny shrimp on a salad a thing on the north shore (or writ large) in the 1980s? Some of my earliest dining memories as a child are of Timber’s in Highland Park doing in the same.

Summer of 1996.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/cheesecake-factory-inc

Dang, that was what I originally thought. Had a sibling on the opening crew—just couldn’t remember what summer that was

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:

nr706 wrote:Shouldn't The Studio be on that list, or was it just over the border in Morton Grove?

The Studio was at 8717 Lincoln Ave.; well inside the borders of Morton Grove, near St. Paul Woods, just north and east of where Burt's Place and Pequods are still located.

Buddy

Buddy probably knows this...but The Studio's claim to fame was that it was owned by the Leibrandt family whose son Charlie was an MLB pitcher of note, sporting a 140-119 record over 14 seasons in the majors.

jnm123 wrote:

BuddyRoadhouse wrote:

nr706 wrote:Shouldn't The Studio be on that list, or was it just over the border in Morton Grove?

The Studio was at 8717 Lincoln Ave.; well inside the borders of Morton Grove, near St. Paul Woods, just north and east of where Burt's Place and Pequods are still located.

Buddy

Buddy probably knows this...but The Studio's claim to fame was that it was owned by the Leibrandt family whose son Charlie was an MLB pitcher of note, sporting a 140-119 record over 14 seasons in the majors.

But how were the portions?