"We can take care of you better if you understand your disease" - Cleveland Clinic's project for visual learners. The Health Policy ElectionThe Health Policy Election. How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us. Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends.
You may know the chain: a hundred and sixty restaurants with a catalogue-like menu that, when I did a count, listed three hundred and eight dinner items (including the forty-nine on the “Skinnylicious” menu), plus a hundred and twenty-four choices of beverage. It’s a linen-napkin-and-tablecloth sort of place, but with something for everyone. There’s wine and wasabi-crusted ahi tuna, but there’s also buffalo wings and Bud Light.
The kids ordered mostly comfort food—pot stickers, mini crab cakes, teriyaki chicken, Hawaiian pizza, pasta carbonara. I got a beet salad with goat cheese, white-bean hummus and warm flatbread, and the miso salmon.