CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC — Director's Dealing 2012

Jan 9, 2012

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC (CAKE)
CIK: 0000887596
Period of Report: 2012-01-05

Reporting Person: SLOMANN CHERYL (Principal Accounting Officer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2012-01-05	Common stock	A	4000	—	Acquired	14221	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2012-01-05	Options to purchase common stock	$29.29	A	4000	Acquired	2020-01-05	Common stock (4000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common stock	500	Indirect
Common stock	13	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Restricted stock award which vests as to 60% shares on 1/5/2015 and 20% of the shares on each of 1/5/2016 and 2017.

F2: Shares held by the Mark D. and Cheryl M. Slomann Trust u/a 4/7/1997 of which the reporting person and her spouse are trustees.

F3: The options vest in five equal installments on each of 1/5/2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.