*“The View’s” Sunny Hostin weighed in on the viral “Cheesecake Factory” date debate and she admitted she visits the restaurant chain “every week.”
“I want to stand up for The Cheesecake Factory ’cause I go there every week,” Hostin explained on Oct. 25, to co-host Sara Haines during the Hot Topics segment, People reports. “Sara and I agree that they make the best dirty martini.”
Hostin said she frequently visits the eatery with her 17-year-old daughter who has “ACT Prep, and “there’s a Cheesecake Factory five minutes away,” she said.
Haines agreed, saying she has a “very nice time” at the popular chain, where “everybody’s lovely.”
The conversation was part of the panel’s discussion about an Atlanta woman who recently went viral after refusing to get out of the car for a first date who took her to The Cheesecake Factory.
According to the Daily Mail, the TikTok footage was shared online by a woman named Monique Santos, who claims she is not the woman in the video. The clip shows a woman identified as Alice complaining to her date that the chain restaurant was “embarrassing.”
“He’s got me at The Cheesecake Factory,” she states in the clip. When her date walks around to open the passenger door, Alice locks the door and shakes her head at him.
She rolls down the window and says to her date, “This is The Cheesecake Factory. This is a chain restaurant. Who takes someone that looks like this to a chain restaurant.”
Once he’s back in the car, he asks: “So, you expect a man to go all out on the first date, is that right?”
The woman snaps back, “You’re supposed to. When you take out a beautiful woman and you’re courting her – because I get courted – you’re supposed to take care of her, you’re supposed to cover her, you’re supposed to protect her, cherish her, treat her well, right?”
The man reveals that when he arrived at Alice’s home to pick her up, she made him wait an hour and didn’t invite him up to her apartment. He also explained that he initially made a reservation at another restaurant but due to her being late, they missed it.
The disastrous date prompted social media users to create a list of restaurants they refuse to go to on a first date. The restaurants considered “unsuitable” include Buffalo Wild Wings, Chili’s, Applebees, IHOP, Denny’s, Olive Garden, Wingstop, and Red Lobster.
“This is a nice guy. He was trying his best,” longtime “The View” host Joy Behar said, People reports. “Also, she made him wait an hour. He had a reservation at a better place, but he had to cancel it because she made him wait. So that’s why she went to The Cheesecake Factory — which, by the way, is a very fun restaurant with good food!”
Had to go look for the rest.
He had reservations at a nicer restaurant, SHE made them miss it so he took her to the Cheesecake Factory. This is how it ended! she sitting there with her stupid face on 😭 https://t.co/WHdlCy79PE pic.twitter.com/K7iZeK2o5C
— dad bod. (@poonNOpeen) October 12, 2023
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