More CAKE: Cheesecake Factory stock is surprisingly beating these Magnificent 7 tech giants—including Nvidia

The hottest stock around is a lot sweeter than sprawling data centers and humming GPUs.  The Cheesecake Factory, fittingly represented by the ticker symbol CAKE, has been on absolute tear in 2026. The casual sit-down restaurant stock has soared by 122% this year after turning sharply upward in June. That growth is even more remarkable given how tough things are right now for the restaurant industry. Once-dominant fast casual and fast food chains have scrambled to make the math work, with rising…