CHEESECAKE FACTORY FOUNDER OVERTON, 75.Byline: Daily News Evelyn Overton, the Cheesecake Factory Inc.'s founder who started the business by baking baking: see cooking. baking Process of cooking by dry heat, especially in an oven. Baked products include bread, cookies, pies, and pastries. pastries in her basement This article is about the section of a building. For the foundation, see Basement rock. A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Slab-on-grade buildings do not have basements. , died in her sleep Wednesday. She was 75. An officer and director of the Calabasas Hills-based restaurant chain, Overton founded the company in 1972 with her first husband, Oscar. This year, sales are expected to exceed $150 million in combined restaurant and bakery sales. Known for trendy and innovative cuisine Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. at moderate prices, the Cheesecake Factory has been serving it up in architecturally distinctive restaurants since opening its first outlet in 1978. Overton began the bakery side of the business and her son, David, developed the restaurant side, which grew into 16 outlets nationwide. David Overton serves as chairman, president and chief executive. Evelyn Overton's approximately 9.5 percent ownership in the company will remain in the Overton family, which has resided in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for more than 20 years. She is survived by her husband, Irving Schumer, son, David, daughter, Renee, and grandson Grandson (gräNsôN`), Ger. Grandsee, town (1990 pop. 2,473), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the southwestern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. , Adam. Funeral arrangements are pending. |
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