The Cheesecake Factory is closing locations: See a list of shuttered locations for 2026

The Cheesecake Factory closed a number of restaurants at the start of this year. The decision comes even as the chain pushes forward with its most aggressive growth year yet. The company currently operates 218 Cheesecake Factory-branded restaurants in the U.S. California has the largest number of locations, with 38, followed by Florida, with 24, and Texas, with 20. On January 24, the company did a sweeping overhaul and closed two long-standing locations at once: a 29-year-old waterfront spot in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and a 34-year-old location in Friendship Heights, Washington, D.C. Additionally, the parent company shuttered two other Houston restaurants around the same time: a Grand Lux Cafe, part of a casual-dining chain created by the founders of The Cheesecake Factory, and Blanco Cocina + Cantina, the only Texas location for this Fox Restaurant Concepts brand, which closed after seven years in the Galleria area. The Baltimore closure came as part of a broader wave of restaurant departures from the Inner Harbor tied to the area’s planned Harborplace redevelopment. Pizzeria Uno and Hooters left the same waterfront strip the year before. “We are working with our staff to help t…