Feastogether Corporation () is a Taiwanese multi-brand restaurant operator headquartered in Taoyuan's Qingpu Special District. Chen Chaoquan () founded Fuli Sichuan Banquet (), the predecessor to Feastogether, in 1971. His son, Chen Qichang (), took charge of the restaurant business in 1979. Fuli Sichuan Banquet's primary clientele was the wedding reception market, which owing to Taiwan's declining birthrate began facing challenges. In response, Chen shifted the business's focus to all-you-can-eat restaurants. In 2002, he founded Feastogether Corporation and the Eat Together () buffet brand. Chen Qiqang's son, Chen Yihang (), became the company's general manager in 2009 and introduced an enterprise resource planning system.
After creating the Eat Together buffet brand, Feastogether started several restaurant brands. It in 2011 created Kaifun Together (), a Sichuan cuisine restaurant brand. In 2013, it started Fruitful Food (), a vegetarian and vegan buffet brand, and Siam More (), a Thai restaurant brand. Feastogether founded Dacoz (), an American-style hamburger restaurant brand in 2016. The next year, it created the buffet brand Inparadise () and Japanese-themed buffet brand Sunrise (). In 2020, it started Jin-Zhu (), a Taiwanese-themed restaurant brand.
Feastogether established Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot (), a hot pot buffet brand, in 2021. The next year, Feastogether founded Doricious (), a Western-themed semi-buffet brand. () opened in 2023 and was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened. Zhiyun (), a teppanyaki restaurant that provides set menu offerings, opened in 2024. Feastogether established Meow Chan Sushi (), which serves à la carte Japanese cuisine, particularly sushi, in 2025. The company opened several hub kitchens to supply its restaurants and the iEat () app in 2019. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it launched Eatogo, an online food ordering and delivery platform, and Eat@home, an e-commerce platform that sells frozen meal kits with dishes from its restaurant brands.
History In 1971, Chen Chaoquan () established Fuli Sichuan Banquet (), which later became Feastogether Corporation. His son, Chen Qichang (), assumed control over the restaurant business in 1979. The younger Chen started the Zhongzheng Branch () in 1993. In being able to hold 200 banquet tables, Fuli Sichuan Banquet's Zhonzheng Branch was Taiwan's largest Sichuan restaurant at its opening. It initially catered to people who were holding wedding banquets. The restaurant business was a good for a period, but sales in the volatile wedding banquet business began suffering as Taiwan experienced a declining birthrate. To stabilize the business, Chen changed the business model to be focused on all-you-can-eat restaurants. In 2001, Chen started Zhongli Welfare Sichuan Cuisine () and Fuli Japanese Buffet (). He founded the brand Xiang Japanese Buffet () in 2002 at the Taoyuan branch of , which later was owned by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi. In preparation for starting the Japanese buffet, he that year had accompanied Idee's general manager Wang Lingmei () and her staff to Japan to learn from trendy restaurants there. Wang offered suggestions, which he implemented. Chen Qichang enlisted the interior designer to give the restaurant a stylish design. Ray Chen helped come up with the brand identity, the interior design, and employee uniforms. They jointly decided that the brand would be named Xiang (), meaning "banquet feast". Feastogether Corporation was established on 8 May 2002 and would later become a multi-brand chain restaurant operator.
Chen Yihang (), the founder's grandson and Chen Qichang's son, graduated from National Taiwan University in 2006, joined the company that year to assist his father in the launching of a Neihu District restaurant, and became the company's general manager in May 2009. He and his older sister, Chen Hanjing (, are the third-generation leaders of the company. When the siblings were in their early 20s in 2006, they founded the buffet brand Eat Together (). The company's earlier brand, Xiang Japanese Buffet, was the original concept that led to the development of Eat Together. The restaurant generated (US$) in revenue in its first year in operation. The United Daily News said the revenue achievement garnered significant respect from the restaurant's industry peers. Feastogether's later branches were named Eat Together. In his role as general manager, Chen Yihang initiated the general management office which consists of the departments of marketing, procurement, human resources, and engineering. Chen submitted a business proposal to a contest on the digitization of the restaurant industry run by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs. As part of his first-place finish in the competition, he got (US$) in funding. Chen used the funding to deploy an enterprise resource planning system, educating all chefs on using computers to place orders and restock ingredients. Another change Chen made was on the company's equity which had been dispersed among about 30 shareholders. He convinced his father and the shareholders in 2008 to support consolidating the equity and allowing company executives to purchase shares.
The company in 2010 reached (US$) in sales of which (US$) was profit. The Ministry of Economic Affairs gave Feastogether the Contribution to Job Creation Award () in 2011. By 2012, the company operated eight Eat Together branches that had an annual revenue of (US$). The United Daily News business journalist Chen Jingyi said that while the Taiwanese buffet chain had begun closing its branches, Eat Together successfully captured the buffet market during this period. On Chinese New Year in 2012, the brand set a company record with a single location having almost 1,000 customers.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, Feastogether had five buffet brands. Every year, 4.5million people ate at the company's buffets. By 2020, Feastogether had 2,500 employees and 40 locations from its seven brands, making a yearly revenue of (US$). During the pandemic, Feastogether did not cut employees' wages or make employees go on unpaid leave. Chen Qichang, the company's chairman, said that as numerous workers came from underprivileged backgrounds, he wanted the company to be supportive of them. In the midst of the pandemic, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen visited Feastogether, where she urged businesses to hold firm on not lowering salaries and to avoid unpaid leave despite the challenging circumstances. The company lost almost (US$) between May and August 2021 when the government disallowed restaurants' customers from eating indoors. The October 2021 revenue recovered to (US$), which matched the monthly revenue the company had before the pandemic. The recovery was in part due to the issued by the government. When COVID-19 restrictions were eased in the latter half of 2022, Feastogether added 14 new outlets that year. At the end of 2022, the company had 64 restaurants and had earned (US$) in annual revenue. Yao Shun of Commercial Times in 2023 called Feastogether the "dominant player in large chain buffet restaurants".
Feastogether started their sixth buffet brand, (), in 2023. That year, the company had started 18 restaurants and earned (US$) in revenue. It started its 11th brand, the teppanyaki-themed Zhiyun (), in 2024. In May 2024, the company owned 83 restaurants in Taiwan, operating 11 restaurant brands. That month, it had 30 branches of Kaifun Together (), 15 branches of the Thai-themed restaurant Siam More (), 11 branches of the buffet Eat Together (), eight branches of the Taiwanese-themed restaurant Jin-Zhu (), five branches of the vegetarian buffet Fruitful Food (), five branches of the Japanese-themed buffet Sunrise (), four branches of Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot (), two branches of the high-end buffet Inparadise (), one branch of the upscale buffet A Joy (), one branch of Doricious (), and one branch of the teppanyaki restaurant Zhiyun (). The company also operates Eat@home (), an e-commerce platform, and Eatogo (), an online food ordering and delivery service. Feastogether plans to establish a presence in the United States and Japanese markets in 2026 by opening Kaifun Together and Jin-Zhu branches and to do an initial public offering that year.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) in 2024 included Feastogether as among the five firms most prone to be targeted by scammers. There were 59 documented instances of fraud in the first three months of the year involving scammers posing as Feast Together employees. The CIB said that hackers were believed to have retrieved customer information from hacking into the company's systems, told customers a mistake had been made when entering the customers' information, and posed as a bank teller to convince customers to hand over their bank account details under the guise of making a payment.
Operations Feastogether invested (US$) into building a hub kitchen. Its purpose is to decrease the time and labor that its restaurants have to spend on preparing food. Spanning over 3,200 ping (), the kitchen is in Taoyuan's Qingpu Special District, where Feastogether is based. The kitchen has four principal divisions: food production, operations management, property management, and pastries production. Feastogether has a group that visits farmers to buy fruits and vegetables from them directly. One reason is to allow the company to monitor the producers' farmer practices such as how pesticides are used, planting practices, and quality management. Another reason is to cut out resellers who would have taken a cut of the profit. At the hub kitchen, the group's members then sort and store the items. The company preprocesses the raw ingredients and processes the intermediate goods. Food prepared at the kitchen includes fruits, vegetables, fully cooked dishes, Hong Kong-inspired dim sum, Western-style pastries, ice cream, and other desserts. After being prepared, the food is supplied to the company's restaurants. Feastogether does not outsource food production to other companies as every dish is made internally. The company became certified in the 2018 edition of ISO 22000, a food safety management system.
For constructing another hub kitchen, Feastogether acquired land close to its headquarters. It opened at the beginning of 2020. The hub kitchen stores both ingredients that need to be frozen and ingredients that can be stored at room temperature. Its purpose is to allow a greater selection of offerings since the company purchases seasonal food and freezes it in the kitchen. By 2020, Feastogether had purchased 15,000 ping () of land at in the Lucao township of Chiayi County. Named the Feastogether Green Market (), the facility was planned to span tens of thousands of ping and would be for preprocessing agricultural, fishery, and livestock products sourced from Chiayi, Tainan, and Yunlin. The facility was aimed to supply both Feastogether's and other companies' restaurants. It is modeled after the Italian food marketplace Eataly. According to Chen Yihang, Feastogether's general manager, the company wants to create an "Eataiwan" where consumers can eat food, purchase ingredients, and take classes at a cooking school. Feastogether plans to spend almost (US$) on developing the project's three construction phases. The company spent (US$) to construct the Chiayi Ingredients Center () which had a floor area of 3,000 ping (). Construction began on 13 July 2022. Cheng Wen-tsan, the mayor of Taoyuan, and Weng Chang-liang, the Chiayi County Magistrate, attended the groundbreaking.
Feastogether formed an in-house logistics fleet that can deliver food at various temperatures, namely regular, refrigerated, and frozen. It has 14 delivery trucks that collectively weigh over . It delivers food daily to restaurants north of Taichung. Restaurants south of the city receive deliveries every two days.
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