They even have revenue forecasting models that take into account: weather, time of year, holidays etc and that article is from 2012.
PS I highly recommend that article for both the medicine to restaurant comparisons and the parallels one can draw to complicated systems in general like IT.
This article from Atul Gawande would lead me to believe that they(Cheesecake Factory) have probably tried it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med
They even have revenue forecasting models that take into account: weather, time of year, holidays etc and that article is from 2012.
PS I highly recommend that article for both the medicine to restaurant comparisons and the parallels one can draw to complicated systems in general like IT.