Junior's: The Story of a Business

With the promise to pay a builder at a later date, he got a new restaurant built. It was a family-style place. He said, "We're going to be a great restaurant and have a great cheesecake." So he went to all these other places supposedly making great cheesecake and bought cakes, and then he'd go upstairs to the bakery, and he and his baker, Eigel Peterson, would do experiments. They hit upon a formula that was acceptable and ran with it, and from the '50s until now, that recipe hasn't changed.

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