Options Brief: The Cheesecake Factory

Shares of The Cheesecake Factory CAKE are lower on the session by 0.13%, trading at $30.85. Overall put volume is now running at 2.80x the daily average, with 42% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 1,705 contracts have traded on the session so far. The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated is engaged in the restaurant and bakery businesses. As of February 23, 2011, the company operated 164 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 150 under The Cheesecake Factory mark; 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark, and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark.