Nutrition Information for Cheesecake Factory Bread

The Cheesecake Factory is a chain of restaurants that began as a small bakery operating out of a basement. Founder Evelyn Overton built up a client base from local restaurants in the 1940s and had a reputation for her cheesecake. In 1972, Evelyn and her husband Oscar turned the bakery into a full-service restaurant that has approximately 150 locations as of 2011. The Cheesecake Factory offers sit down service, full bar, catering and curbside to go. Included in the menu is a list of 50 cheesecake and dessert items. Patrons start off their meals with distinctive dark-crusted bread loaves with butter, brought to the table while you wait for your food. The company website offers no nutritional information for any of their menu items, including the bread.

Calories

• Calorie counts depend on your serving size of bread and how much butter you use. Website MyFitnessPal offers nutritional statistics for The Cheesecake Factory bread in one loaf servings with butter. One full loaf has 678 calories. A table serving features eight loaves of bread, meaning one container contains 5,424 calories.

Fat

• Each loaf serving of The Cheesecake Factory bread has 29 g of total fat. MyFitnessPal does not break down the fat content by format, but does state it contains no trans fat. The actual fat content may vary by how much butter you add to the bread.

Nutritional Values

• Each loaf contains 34 g of protein and 176 g carbohydrates. The site shows no nutritional value for the bread. In other words, it offers no vitamin A, C, calcium or iron. If monitoring your carbohydrate intake, pass on the bread before dinner.

Ingredients

• The Cheesecake Factory guards their recipes carefully, but the Internet is full of ways to duplicate the taste and texture of the product. The Recipe Circus shows the ingredients for The Cheesecake Factory's pumpernickel bread as milk, vegetable oil, molasses, flour, rye flour, corneal, salt, active dry yeast and unsweetened cocoa powder for coloring.