Feastogether

Feastogether Corporation(Chinese:饗賓餐旅事業股份有限公司) is a Taiwanesemulti-brandrestaurant operator headquartered inTaoyuan'sQingpu Special District. Chen Chaoquan (Chinese:陳朝全) founded Fuli Sichuan Banquet (Chinese:福宴館（福利川菜）), the predecessor to Feastogether, in 1971. His son, Chen Qichang (Chinese:陳啟昌), took charge of the restaurant business in 1979. Fuli Sichuan Banquet's primary clientele was thewedding receptionmarket, which owing to Taiwan'sdeclining birthratebegan facing challenges. In response, Chen shifted the business's focus toall-you-can-eat restaurants. In 2002, he founded Feastogether Corporation and the Eat Together (Chinese:饗食天堂) buffet brand. Chen Qiqang's son, Chen Yihang (Chinese:陳毅航), became the company'sgeneral managerin 2009 and introduced anenterprise resource planningsystem.
After creating the Eat Together buffet brand, Feastogether started several restaurant brands. It in 2011 created Kaifun Together (Chinese:開飯川食堂), aSichuan cuisinerestaurant brand. In 2013, it started Fruitful Food (Chinese:果然匯), avegetarianandveganbuffetbrand, and Siam More (Chinese:饗泰多), aThairestaurant brand. Feastogether founded Dacoz (Chinese:大口吃), an American-stylehamburgerrestaurant brand in 2016. The next year, it created the buffet brand Inparadise (Chinese:饗饗) and Japanese-themed buffet brand Sunrise (Chinese:旭集和食集錦). In 2020, it started Jin-Zhu (Chinese:真珠台灣佳味), aTaiwanese-themed restaurant brand.
Feastogether established Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot (Chinese:小福利麻辣鍋), ahot potbuffet brand, in 2021. The next year, Feastogether founded Doricious (Chinese:朵頤餐廳), aWestern-themed semi-buffet brand.A Joy[zh](Chinese:饗A Joy) opened in 2023 and was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened. Zhiyun (Chinese:旨醞), ateppanyakirestaurant that providesset menuofferings,  opened in 2024. The company opened several hub kitchens to supply its restaurants and the iEat (Chinese:iEAT饗愛吃) app in 2019. During theCOVID-19 pandemic, it launched Eatogo, anonline food orderingand delivery platform, and Eat@home, ane-commerceplatform that sellsfrozen mealkitswith dishes from its restaurant brands.
In 1971, Chen Chaoquan (Chinese:陳朝全) established Fuli Sichuan Banquet (Chinese:福宴館（福利川菜）), which later became Feastogether Corporation.His son, Chen Qichang (Chinese:陳啟昌), assumed control over the restaurant business in 1979. The younger Chen started the Zhongzheng Branch (Chinese:中正店) in 1993. In being able to hold 200banquettables, Fuli Sichuan Banquet's Zhonzheng Branch was Taiwan's largest Sichuan restaurant at its opening. It initially catered to people who were holdingwedding banquets. The restaurant business was a good for a period, but sales in the volatile wedding banquet business began suffering as Taiwan experienced adeclining birthrate. To stabilize the business, Chen changed the business model to be focused onall-you-can-eat restaurants. In 2001, Chen started Zhongli Welfare Sichuan Cuisine (Chinese:中壢福利川菜) and Fuli Japanese Buffet (Chinese:福利日式百匯). He founded the brand Xiang Japanese Buffet (Chinese:饗日式百匯) in 2002 at the Taoyuan branch ofIdee Department Store[zh], which later was owned byShin Kong Mitsukoshi. In preparation for starting the Japanese buffet, he that year had accompanied Idee's general manager Wang Lingmei (Chinese:王令楣) and her staff to Japan to learn from trendy restaurants there. Wang offered suggestions, which he implemented.Chen Qichang enlisted theinterior designerRay Chen[zh]to give the restaurant a stylish design.Ray Chen helped come up with thebrand identity, theinterior design, and employee uniforms. They jointly decided that the brand would be named Xiang (Chinese:饗), meaning "banquet feast". Feastogether Corporation was established on 8 May 2002 and would later become amulti-brandchain restaurant operator.
Chen Yihang (Chinese:陳毅航), the founder's grandson and Chen Qichang's son, graduated fromNational Taiwan Universityin 2006, joined the company that year to assist his father in the launching of aNeihu Districtrestaurant, and became the company'sgeneral managerin May 2009.He and his older sister, Chen Hanjing (Chinese:陳涵菁, 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 (Chinese:饗食天堂). The company's earlier brand, Xiang Japanese Buffet, was the original concept that led to the development of Eat Together. The restaurant generatedNT$140million (US$5,012,172) in revenue in its first year in operation. TheUnited Daily Newssaid 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 ofmarketing,procurement,human resources, andengineering. Chen submitted abusiness proposalto a contest on the digitization of the restaurant industry run by Taiwan'sMinistry of Economic Affairs. As part of his first-place finish in the competition, he got NT$1.4million (US$50,122) in funding. Chen used the funding to deploy anenterprise resource planningsystem, educating all chefs on using computers to place orders and restock ingredients. Another change Chen made was on the company'sequitywhich 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 NT$800million (US$28,640,985) in sales of which NT$75million (US$2,685,092) was profit.The Ministry of Economic Affairs gave Feastogether the Contribution to Job Creation Award (Chinese:創造就業貢獻獎) in 2011.By 2012, the company operated eight Eat Together branches that had an annual revenue of NT$1.2billion (US$42,961,478). TheUnited Daily Newsbusiness journalist Chen Jingyi said that while the Taiwanese buffet chainJogoya[zh]had begun closing its branches, Eat Together successfully captured the buffet market during this period.OnChinese New Yearin 2012, the brand set a company record with a single location having almost 1,000 customers.
Before theCOVID-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 NT$3.5billion (US$125,304,310).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 presidentTsai Ing-wenvisited 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 NT$500million (US$17,900,616) between May and August 2021 when the government disallowed restaurants' customers from eating indoors.The October 2021 revenue recovered to NT$410million (US$14,678,505), which matched the monthly revenue the company had before the pandemic. The recovery was in part due to theQuintuple Stimulus Vouchers[zh]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 NT$5.6billion (US$200,486,897) in annual revenue. Yao Shun ofCommercial Timesin 2023 called Feastogether the "dominant player in large chain buffet restaurants".
Feastogether started their sixth buffet brand,A Joy[zh](Chinese:饗A Joy), in 2023.That year, the company had started 18 restaurants and earned NT$8.5billion (US$304,310,468) in revenue.It started its 11th brand, theteppanyaki-themed Zhiyun (Chinese:旨醞), 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 (Chinese:開飯川食堂), 15 branches of theThai-themed restaurant Siam More (Chinese:饗泰多), 11 branches of the buffet Eat Together (Chinese:饗食天堂), eight branches of theTaiwanese-themed restaurant Jin-Zhu (Chinese:真珠台灣佳味), five branches of thevegetarianbuffet Fruitful Food (Chinese:果然匯), five branches of theJapanese-themed buffet Sunrise (Chinese:旭集和食集錦), four branches of Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot (Chinese:小福利麻辣鍋), two branches of the high-end buffet Inparadise (Chinese:饗饗), one branch of the upscale buffet A Joy (Chinese:饗A Joy), one branch of Doricious (Chinese:朵頤餐廳), and one branch of theteppanyakirestaurant Zhiyun (Chinese:旨醞).The company also operates Eat@home (Chinese:饗在家), ane-commerceplatform, and Eatogo (Chinese:饗帶走), anonline food orderingand 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 aninitial public offeringthat year.
TheCriminal Investigation Bureau(CIB) in 2024 included Feastogether as among the five firms most prone to be targeted byscammers. 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 abank tellerto convince customers to hand over theirbank accountdetails under the guise of making a payment.
Feastogether investedNT$100million (US$3,580,123) 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 3,200ping(11,000 m; 110,000 sq ft), the kitchen is in Taoyuan'sQingpu Special District, where Feastogether is based. The kitchen has four principal divisions: food production,operations management,property management, andpastriesproduction. 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 howpesticidesare used, planting practices, andquality management. Another reason is to cut outresellerswho 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 theintermediate goods. Food prepared at the kitchen includesfruits,vegetables, fully cooked dishes, Hong Kong-inspireddim sum, Western-style pastries,ice cream, and otherdesserts. 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 ofISO 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 befrozenand ingredients that can be stored at room temperature. Its purpose is to allow a greater selection of offerings since the company purchasesseasonal foodand freezes it in the kitchen.By 2020, Feastogether had purchased 15,000 ping (50,000 m; 530,000 sq ft) of land atMachouhou Industrial Park[zh]in theLucaotownship ofChiayi County.Named the Feastogether Green Market (Chinese:饗青市集), 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, andYunlin. The facility was aimed to supply both Feastogether's and other companies' restaurants.It is modeled after the Italian food marketplaceEataly. 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 NT$5billion (US$179,006,158) on developing the project's three construction phases.The company spent NT$800million (US$28,640,985) to construct the Chiayi Ingredients Center (Chinese:嘉義食材中心) which had afloor areaof 3,000 ping (9,900 m; 110,000 sq ft).Construction began on 13 July 2022.Cheng Wen-tsan, the mayor of Taoyuan, andWeng Chang-liang, the Chiayi County Magistrate, attended thegroundbreaking.
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 90 tonnes (90,000 kg; 200,000 lb). It delivers food daily to restaurants north ofTaichung. Restaurants south of the city receive deliveries every two days.
Feastogether's restaurants allow customers to make onlinereservations. The restaurants permit reservations for a period that extends up to one month ahead. In 2023, the time at which online reservations opened was revised from midnight to 9:00am so that customers could book reservations without having to be remain awake at night. For three of its brands—Inparadise, Sunrise, and A Joy—Feastogether requires customers to pay adepositwithin a specified time period before the reservation is finalized.Feastogether began usingChunghwa Telecom'sAIvoice assistantin 2024 to respond to customer phone calls. Usinggenerative AI, the voice assistant takes into account local festivals and what the caller needs. The company adopted the technology with the aim of speeding up responses to customers since they lose business when their phone lines are tied up.
Chen Yihang (Chinese:陳毅航), the company's general manager, viewed the brands as serving different audiences. He said in 2024 that people attending a college reunion would select the buffet brand Eat Together, people going on a date would select Inparadise, and businesspeople would select A Joy.For theteppanyakirestaurant brand Zhiyun, office professionals aged 30 and above make up the primary target market.
Fuli Sichuan Banquet (Chinese:福宴館（福利川菜）), Feastogether's founding brand, was founded in 1971 by Chen Chaoquan (Chinese:陳朝全). It originally operated as a staff cafeteria for workers of the Taoyuan Farmland Water Conservancy Association (Chinese:桃園農田水利會). In 1977, Chen hired theSichuan cuisineexpert Zhang Jinquan (Chinese:張金全) as thehead chef. Fuli adopted a large-scale Sichuan restaurant operational model and began serving Sichuan food. Fuli added two more branches: Zhongzheng Branch (Chinese:中正店) and Zhongli Store (Chinese:中壢店).
Eden Yiping Lin ofYahoo! Newsin 2019 attributed Fuli's success on fresh ingredients, tastiness, and budget-friendly prices and Sichuan cuisine's spicy and aromatic flavors. Lin said that Fuli preserved the original taste of Sichuan cuisine through using Sichuan peppers likerattan pepperander jing tiao. Traditional Sichuan dishes the restaurant served in 2019 includedcarpcooked withfermented chili bean pasteandeggplantseasoned withfish fragrance. Other dishes the restaurant served that year werescallion pancakes,chicken soupmade in aclay pot, salty baked chicken, shrimp meatballs, andGeleshan-style spicy chicken and spicy pork. The restaurant created additional spicy Sichuan dishes. One dish was named "Tender Grass for Grazing Cows" (Chinese:放牛吃嫩草), which is made from Australian beef belly, shreddedcabbageflavored with Sichuanpeppercorns, the teaDa Hong Pao, the pepperer jing tiao,chili powder, andblack vinegar. A second dish the restaurant created was named "Sichuan Spicy Chicken" (Chinese:川味口水雞). Diners can choose from bothà la carteandset mealsofferings. When diners have spent above a minimum threshold, they are given access to a buffet offruit,salad, beverages includingdraft beer, anddessertsincludingHäagen-Dazsice cream.
Established in 2002, the Eat Together (Chinese:饗食天堂) buffet brand later became Feastogether's foray into theGreater Taipei Area.The first branch was established in theZhongli DistrictofTaoyuan.According to the author Shen Qinyu, families and friends frequented the buffet for get-togethers. After its founding, Eat Together expanded its offerings to haveSichuan cuisine,Taiwanese cuisine,Thai cuisine, andvegetarian cuisine.The buffet served over 200 dishes in 2012.Eat Together's branch at theQsquareTaipei Main Stationoccupied 300ping(990 m; 11,000 sq ft) of space and madeNT$200million (US$7,160,246) in revenue in 2010, making it the station's highest revenue restaurant out of the 13 there.
Taoyuan Countygave Eat Together'sZhonglibranch a golden award for "14 Best Exotic Cuisine Restaurants" in 2012.Taoyuan Citygave the brand the "Smart Star Award" (Chinese:智多星獎) and "Gender Equality Award" (Chinese:性平獎) in 2019.23 of Eat Together's customers hadfood poisoningin May and June 2012 owing to their serving ofoysterscontaminated withnorovirus.For affected customers, the company offered coverage of medical expenses, free meals, andfinancial compensationofNT$1,000 (US$36).In the following, three months, the company's revenue fell by 20% to 25% owing to the incident.
Enru Lin of theTaipei Timesreviewed the Eat Together branch located atQsquarein theDatong Districtof Taipei in 2013. With capacity for 352 people, the restaurant was fully booked and had a 60-minute wait for walk-ins when Lin visited on the weekend. She penned a mostly positive review about the restaurant's food, comparing it the dishes served at restaurants that cater to business customers. Lin called thesirloin steak"juicy and blessedly fatty", finding it was complemented nicely by thepineapplesoaked in milk that was served next to it. She found thetempuraprawnsto be "fresh, long and luxuriously battered", while the roastpork knuckle's tough exterior yielded to a "buttery tenderness". Lin gave a mixed review of some dishes that she said were elegantly organized in small cups. Whereas she thought thescallopseasoned withmisowasabisauce andleaf vegetableswas delicious, she called themayonnaise- andherbflavoredbaconcake "strange". Lin said that although the bacon cake dish had arice cake'stexture, it was difficult to bite into owing to "a powerful fleshy flavor". She found the dining experience to be slightly expensive. Lin criticized the noise in the restaurant emanating from the customers and the open kitchen, writing that discussions likely would "never get romantic, or even very friendly: You must lean in, and sometimes shout."
Eat Together enlisted the rock bandAccusefiveas spokespeople for the brand in 2021.That year, the company renovated 10 locations.Compared to pre-pandemic figures, revenue at each Eat Together branch by 2023 had grown by between 5% and 10%.Eat Together opened its 11th location on 25 September 2023 atMitsui Shopping Park LaLaport TaichunginTaichung.Located on the shopping mall's third floor, it was the brand's first restaurant opening inCentral Taiwanin 12 years and its largest in Central Taiwan.With seats for 376 people, the branch occupied 414ping(1,370 m; 14,700 sq ft) of space. When it opened, the restaurant had eight sections and served grilledoystersfromPenghu,sushitopped withtrufflesandscallops, and soup withmilkfishand oysters. It had a children's section containing smallhamburgersand adim sumcart featuringhar gowmixed withtruffleandasparagus. The restaurant's interior design is inspired bywatchmaking,metalworking,movable type, Japanesesumo, and the making oflanterns.
Kaifun Together (Chinese:開飯川食堂) is a restaurant brand established in 2011 that servesSichuan cuisine.The restaurant offersà la cartedining.When it opened its 23rd location at theFEDS Zhubeion 14 January 2022, theCommercial Timescalled Kaifun Together Taiwan's biggest Chinese restaurant chain. Dishes the restaurant served in 2022 includedmouth-watering chicken[zh]andmapo tofu. The restaurant has a red-and-white decor and features a playful panda as the mascot.In 2024, the restaurant served a dish containingshrimpmixed witheggs,leeks, and pepper. One chicken dish featuredchicken breastsdrenched in spicy sause and featuringseaweedandlotus rootwhile another featured frieddrumsticksmarinated inchili powder. Another dish featuredpork ribsdrenched inShaoxing wine,er jing tiaochili, andblack bean paste.
Fruitful Food (Chinese:果然匯) is avegetarianandveganbuffetbrand established in 2013.The first location opened in April 2013 atMing Yao Department Storein theDaan Districtof Taipei.TheCommercial Timescalled Fruitful Food the biggest vegetarian buffet chain in Taiwan when it opened its fifth location atFEDS Zhubeion 14 January 2022. The restaurant occupies 253ping(840 m; 9,000 sq ft) of space and seats 284 people. Featuring the colors white and green and a high ceiling, the interior design includes contemporary art, urban fashion, and plants. To signal its commitment to vegetarian cuisine, it has a 480-centimetre (190 in) tall "Fruitful Foodtree of life" in the middle. When the location opened, the restaurant servedmushroompatties,pasta,salad,sushi, and Thai noodles. In partnership with the vegan food companyOatly, it servedoat milkdishes and desserts.
The buffet servedIndian curries,pasta, andsushiin 2017.It serves different vegetarian and vegan dishes depending on the season. Dishes are marked as being vegan or as having ingredients containing milk, eggs, or thefive pungent roots[zh]. The restaurant has sections for Chinese, Japanese, and Western cuisines as well as for desserts, beverages, and fruit. Thesalad barsection in 2024 featured 20 vegetables, six sauces, cheeses, nuts, and raisins.The brand's first location at the Ming Yao Department Store closed on 12 May 2024 because the company's lease with thedepartment storehad expired. Roughly 200,000 customers ate at a Fruitful Food location every year by 2024.
Siam More (Chinese:饗泰多) is aThairestaurant brand established in 2013 and offersà la carteandset menudining.It received the "Thai Select" certification fromThailand's Ministry of Commerce.The first location opened in June 2013 on the sixth floor of the Bistro 98 building in theEastern District of Taipeiand occupies 73ping(240 m; 2,600 sq ft) of space. Feastogether spent tens of millions of dollars on developing the brand. The company enlisted the fashion designer Kang Jiawei (Chinese:康嘉偉) to create the employee uniforms. He designed the Thai-styleharem pantsas their uniforms. Feastogether hired INID Design, a Taiwanese design company, to create a Thai-themed interior design. The design of the restaurant's washrooms was inspired by Thai spas.
The restaurant sources some of itsspicesand other ingredients from Thailand. In her 2013 restaurant review,Vogue Taiwanreviewer Alice Cheng recommended the dishes firecracker shrimp,green papaya salad,mackerelcakes, chicken coated ingreen curry, meat skewers flavored withlemongrass, and chicken wrapped inpandan leaves. Siam More emphasizes traditional Thai food, so it excludes non-traditional Thai dishes like spicy chicken andmoon shrimp cakes.Siam More serves grilled and fried dishes fromNorthern Thai cuisineand curries fromSouthern Thai cuisine. Dishes the restaurant served in 2023 includedmoon shrimp cake,soft-shell crabcoated inyellow curry, grilled beef salad, beefshort ribsmade in theNortheast Thailandstyle,lemonfish, and a pork platter. Beverages they served includedThai iced tea. The restaurant's mascot is "Little Elephant Brother (Chinese:小象哥) who is dressed in an exaggerated outfit.Siam More opened its firstEastern Taiwanlocation in 2023 atYilan City'sLuna Plaza. The restaurant has 71ping(230 m; 2,500 sq ft) of space and seats 78 people.
Dacoz (Chinese:大口吃) was an American-stylehamburgerrestaurant brand established in 2016. It began operations on the seventh floor of theBig Cityshopping mall inEast District, Hsinchu. The restaurant's hamburgers were a fusion of the American and Taiwanese cuisines. Items on the menu included "salted eggbitter melonnatural pork burger", "scallionsauce cherry duck breast burger", and "grapefruit-flavored grilledmentaikoand salmon burger". The hamburgers were made from Australian beef. Other items on the menu werepasta,risotto, andpaninis.
Inparadise (Chinese:饗饗) is a buffet brand established in 2017.In reference to Eatogether, Feastogether's earlier buffet brand, theChina Timescalled Inparadise its "evolved version" whileMarie Clairecalled it the "upgraded version".It costs Feastogether betweenNT$120million (US$4,296,148) and NT$150million (US$5,370,185) to open a new Inparadise branch.Inparadise's first branch was opened on the 46th floor of the shopping mall Breeze Xin Yi (Chinese:微風信義) on 20 June 2017. Occupying 390ping(1,300 m; 14,000 sq ft) of space, the restaurant seats 254 people. It cost NT$130million (US$4,654,160) to open and had 70 chefs and kitchen staff when it opened. The restaurant's seating areas feature booths, sofas, and the standard meal tables.The branch gives customers apanoramic viewof Taipei, allowing them to seeTaipei 101, theTaipei Basin, andKeelung River.By 2018, the restaurant's daily earnings surpassed NT$1million (US$35,801) on average.
The second Inparadise branch began operations on 27 December 2022 on the 39th floor ofHongWell i-Towerin theXinzhuang DistrictofNew Taipei City.It occupies 370 ping (1,200 m; 13,000 sq ft) of space and seats 264 people. The restaurant's "welcome wall" features almost 500 lights. Relying on the "Tower" concept, it has a layered design and uses lighting to create visual effects. The restaurant has eight dining sections that feature names drawn from seas, lakes, rivers, and mountains.Named "Abundant Sea" (Chinese:豐大海), the first section offersseafoodandsashimi. The seafood is transported every day from the harbor. The section features a backdrop ofindigo dyeing[zh]and silver-coloredstainless steelsculptures. The second section is titled "Xun Qiao Yun" (Chinese:旬巧原) and serves French appetizers and salads. Named "Capital Mountain" (Chinese:京山), the third section offers Hong Kong-styledim sumandroast gooseand is decorated with blue-and-white porcelain wall art. The fourth section, titled "Joyous Venue" (Chinese:大快地), servesteppanyakifood made in the Western style and sliced meats. Named "Grain Cooking Lake" (Chinese:禾烹湖), the fifth section uses ceramics to cook steaminghot potdishes. Decorated with Japanese-style lacquerware, the sixth section is called "Roasted Hill" (Chinese:炙丘) and presents Japanese dishes that are steamed, fried, and grilled. Featuring French desserts, the seventh section is called "Sweet Field" (Chinese:甜田) and is decorated withArt Decoreliefs. The eight section is titled "Long Drink River" (Chinese:長飲川) and is a beverage bar that serves alcohol. It has a roomy dining area shaped as an M and changing light sequences.
The fashion designerJustin Chou[zh]designed the employees' uniforms. The staff who serve customers wear blue clothes with "woven textures and detailed accents". The chefs wear light gray uniforms that have collars and cuffs that are red or blue based on the hotness or coldness of the dishes they manage. The venue gives customers apanoramic viewofGuandu Subdistrict[zh],Mount Guanyin, andTaipei 101.Inparadise's cocktails have analcohol by volumeapproximately between 4% and 6%. It introduced three cocktails in 2024 that usedgrapes,passion fruit, andlychee.Later that year, the restaurant began serving three chocolates: one made ofsweet rice wineandlongan, another made ofpomeloandJin Xuan tea, and a third made ofraspberryandrose.
In January 2025, 59 customers sought medical treatment forfood poisoningafter having dined at Inparadise's Breeze Xin Yi branch.The affected patrons had eaten raw items likeoysters,sashimi, andscallops.TheDepartment of Health, Taipei City Government[zh]started an epidemiological investigation and issued a directive to the restaurant to halt operations.Despite being told to pause operations on the afternoon of 7 January, the restaurant was still serving customers that evening.In response, the department fined the restaurant NT$3million (US$107,404) for failing to abide by the order.After doing a health inspection, the department discovered a pair of hygiene problems and mandated that the restaurant address them by the next day.The health department found that more than 70% of the affected customers had eaten sashimi and hypothesized that they had been sickened bynorovirus.After pausing operations for 4.5 days, the Xinyi branch reopened on 12 January. It received approval from the health department to reopen after having done training of staff and sanitization of the restaurant.AUnited Daily Newsreporter who visited the restaurant the day it reopened found that business did not appear to affected.For customers affected by the food poisoning, the restaurant offered ared envelopecontaining NT$800 (US$29) and a NT$1000 (US$36) voucher that could be used at only Feastogether restaurants.
Sunrise (Chinese:旭集和食集錦) is aJapanese-themed buffet brand established in 2019.It costs Feastogether betweenNT$120million (US$4,296,148) and NT$150million (US$5,370,185) to open a new Sunrise branch.Sunrise's first location opened on 25 December 2019 on the 9th floor ofFEDS Xinyi A13. Occupying 350ping(1,200 m; 12,000 sq ft) of space, it seats 288 people. Inspired by Japanese design, the restaurant has mud walls, floral windows, andbamboo weaving.Sunrise's third location opened on 14 January 2022 at theFEDS Zhubei. It occupies 410ping(1,400 m; 15,000 sq ft) of space and seats 339 people. Its entrance is decorated with a suspended treasure chest containing Japanese mascots and a large whale. The restaurant's two private rooms have crystal lamps fromSwarovski, the grill section has a huge goldfish display, and akimonois exhibited.Sunrise's fourth location began operating on 26 September 2023 at theDayeh Takashimaya Department Storein theTianmuneighborhood of Taipei'sShilin District.The brand's second Taipei branch, it seats 344 people and occupies 498 ping (1,650 m; 17,700 sq ft) of space. The venue has nine sections, each of which has its own design. It features thestained glassand traditional geometric lines of Japan'sTaishō era, which Fu Bingxiang of theCommercial Timessaid "creates a delicate and romantic ambiance that reflects the beautiful era of Western influence gradually spreading to the East".
Sunrise's fifth location began operating on 27 October 2023 at theTaoyuanshopping mall Zhongmao Xintiandi's 12th floor. It seats 400 people and occupies 300 ping (990 m; 11,000 sq ft) of space. The branch's interior design is based on the theme of "ultimate", combining both traditional and modern elements. Japanese culture permeates the design through inclusion of Japanese glass lighting, classic Japanese artwork, and wooden ceilings. The restaurant has nine major sections.It served almost 300 items in 2023.Dishes the buffet served that year included grilledbeef tongue, grilledeelskewers, grilledsushi, fishsashimi,shrimpserved withvermicelli, and steamedabaloneserved in ateapot. Japanese confections the buffet served includedwagashi,ningyōyaki[ja;zh], anddorayakiwithchestnutandhōjichaflavored fillings.
Jin-Zhu (Chinese:真珠台灣佳味) is aTaiwanese-themed restaurant brand established in 2020. It is Feastogether's seventh brand and has bothà la carteandset mealsofferings. The brand's first restaurant opened on 15 July 2020 atQsquarein theDatong District. The restaurant occupies roughly 70ping(230 m; 2,500 sq ft) of space and seats 88 people.Feastogether's general manager, Chen Yihang, characterized Jin-Zhu as "more down-to-earth" compared to the earlier sister brand Kaifun Together, which featuresSichuan cuisine.In serving Taiwanese cuisine, the restaurant offers dishes that are easy to make rather than complicated dishes orChinese aristocrat cuisine. It aims to provide affordable food that tastes like what a Taiwanese mother or grandmother would make at home. Several of the restaurant's chefs asked Grandma Fu Mei (Chinese:富美阿嬤) to impart her skills to them. She was an 80-year-old woman who had run aLongtanrestaurant for 58 years before retiring two years prior. In her lessons with the chefs, Grandma Fu Mei told them, "Only small-sized dried shrimp will be aromatic" and asked them, "What can you reduce in fried rice noodles?" Dishes the restaurant served were "stir-friedpork bellywithsquid", "two-color savory soupdumplings", and "soy saucefried baby squid".
The brand's first branch inNew Taipei Cityopened atBeyond Plazain 2021. With seats for 98 people, the branch occupied 76 ping (250 m; 2,700 sq ft) of space. Taiwanese homes built in the 1980s inspires the interior design.By 2023, theMinistry of Economic Affairshad multiple times recognized Jin-Zhu as the "Annual Taiwanese Cuisine Restaurant".In 2023, a Jin-Zhu branch opened inTaoyuan City. The restaurant has 113 ping (370 m; 4,000 sq ft) of space and seats 148 people. The restaurant's decor feature blue and orange colors and neon light graphics. TheCommercial Times's Yao Shun said the design is a "trendy retro style".Jin-Zhu in 2023 served friedrice noodles,youtiaomixed withdouchi(black beans) andoysters, andsalt-baked chicken[zh].In 2024, it served a soup dish containingspare ribsandlima bean. Yao Shun of theCommercial Timespraised the dish's beans for being "dense and sweet, rich and delicious". Another dish the restaurant served in 2024 contained shrimp floss,sweet potato, and lettuce.
Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot (Chinese:小福利麻辣鍋) is ahot potbuffet brand established in 2021. It is Feastogether's eighth brand and fifth buffet brand. The brand's first restaurant opened on 17 August 2021 atGlobal Mall Zhonghein theZhonghe DistrictofNew Taipei City.Occupying 180ping(600 m; 6,400 sq ft) of space, it seats 236 people. The restaurant's decor is a mixture of vintage Taiwanese features and contemporary design. The dining section is styled aftermahjong, andbibshave entertaining slogans like "Rely on Your Face to Eat". When it opened, the hotpot restaurant servedwagyu beef,red shrimp,short ribs,meatballs,dumplings,pig's blood cake, and duckblood soup. Buffet items includedice cream,Taiwanese crystal mochi[zh],taro ice[zh],bing, andfried chicken.
A Little Fuli Spicy Hot Pot branch opened atXiaobitan metro station's fifth floor in 2023. The restaurant occupies 102 ping (340 m; 3,600 sq ft) of space and seats 202 people. Its interior design incorporates vintage elements of atraditional Chinese medicinepharmacy through whimsical dining slogans and medicine cabinets made of wood. The hotpot restaurant gives customers fourbrothchoices. The "classic spicy" broth mixes 26Chinese medicinal herbs. The "fresh and fragrantShantou" broth has a rich seafood taste through its ingredients of driedseafood, vegetables, and fresh bones. Featuring a pork bone foundation, the "garlic pork bone" broth includes garlic and clams and is creamy white. Thetomatobroth includes several vegetables and has a sweet, tangy flavor.
Doricious (Chinese:朵頤餐廳) is aWestern-themed semi-buffet brand established in September 2022.The restaurant launched on the first floor ofHyatt Place New Taipei City Xinzhuang[zh]in theXinzhuang DistrictofNew Taipeiand is Feastogether's first brand to be focused on Westernfine dining.The restaurant has windows that span from the floor to the ceiling.When diners have spent above a minimum threshold, they are given access to a buffet of containingice cream,desserts, fruit,appetizers, and fried hot foods.The restaurant's main dishes in 2024 includedUSDA Choiceshort ribs,slow-cookedFrench-stylelamb chops,gratin-stylelobster, gratin-styleflatfish, andmisocaramelizedpork ribs.The buffet's sections that year included asalad bar, an appetizers section, an area for fruit and desserts, a beverages section, and anice creamsection.Buffet items in 2024 includedblack trufflerisotto,cream of mushroom soup, andmacaroni and cheese.Cuisines includedJapanese,Western, andChinese.The buffet had 10 appetizers, 16 salads, and seven sauces that year.Yao Shun of theCommercial Timesin 2024 praised the short ribs for its "crispy, charred exterior and tender, juicy meat" and said the flatfish "delivers a complex, rich, and sweet flavor that even kids love".TheChina Timesreviewer Zhu Shikai said that customers liked the restaurant because it provided an upscale dining experience at an economical rate.Doricious closed after its lease expired on 30 August 2024, prompting the company to seek a new site for the restaurant.Feastogether plans to reopen Doricious atHonhui Plazain Xinzhuang District in May 2025.
A Joy[zh](Chinese:饗A Joy) is Feastogether's sixth buffet brand, 10th restaurant brand, and 70th restaurant location.In late 2021, Feastogether beganleasingA Joy's venue onTaipei 101's 86th floor.The company settled on starting A Joy after deliberating on 39 different proposals including non-buffet design concepts. They settled on a buffet because they believed Taiwanese diners prized having a wide range of different options and the line betweenfine diningand buffets had become significantly less defined. While in the planning phase, Feastogether was spending hundreds of millions of dollars each month on expenses for the venue. To open A Joy, Feastogether investedNT$300million (US$10,740,369), roughly a third of which was spent onfire protectionand other areas that customers could not see. This amount was about double what Feastogether spent on opening an Inparadise or Sunrise branch.A Joy opened on July 23, 2023. On the day that reservations became available, all spots for the next month were taken. It was Taiwan's highest-priced buffet when it opened, costing inclusive of theservice chargeNT$3,608 (US$129) for lunch and NT$4,268 (US$153) for dinner. To staff A Joy, Feastogether selected 150 employees out of the over 3,000 they have. The company gave a pay raise of NT$2,000 (US$72) to the employees they transferred.
A Joy occupies 555ping(1,830 m; 19,700 sq ft) of space and seats 282 people.The restaurant's theme is "a love letter from Taiwan to the world" (Chinese:台灣寫給世界的一封情書). When customers enter the restaurant, they are met with theosmanthusscent that the brand has selected. Mountains can be seen from the restaurant's entrance, which is decorated with alandscape paintingtitled "Previous Mountain" (Chinese:珍山) made by CN Flower. The venue has plants fetched from 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level. Candy Chun ofEllesaid, the mountain ranges visible through the window along with the indoor plants and art produce a "tangible yet mysterious forest island imagery". The fashion designerJustin Chou[zh]designed the employees' uniforms. A Joy collaborated with Lights Up Studio, Tetera (Chinese:持之音), and 12 composers to make Xiang Music (Chinese:饗音樂). They produced music familiar to the Taiwanese people, incorporating sounds likespatulascolliding with pots, knives chopping oncutting boards, and noises fromstir fryinganddeep frying. To create a soundscape of Taiwan's daily life, it incorporates the din ofpublic transportation,hawkers, andnight markets.Its design reflects various aspects of Taiwan's landscape and is divided into four thematic zones (mountain, sea, plains, and city).
A Joy has eight dining sections and serves over 300 dishes. When it opened, the buffet served Taiwanese specialities includingbasilTaiwanese fried chicken,Ayu sweetfishfromYilan,braised pork[zh-yue],si luo pork[zh],red tortoise cake, and the fried pastrygao jha[zh]. Desserts included a cake shaped asTaipei 101and ice cream with flavors likeblack sesame,lemon,passion fruit,peanut,taro, andtoffeemilk tea. The restaurant served chocolate desserts with flavors likecilantro,cinnamon,Hakkalei cha, Taiwanese-styleshallots,fermented bean curd,peanuts, andpomelowith pepper.TVBS's Fang Junming in 2024 recommended the dishesopilio crab,A5 Wagyu beefsushi, and rolls containingsea urchinandshrimp. Desserts he recommended were bamboo charcoalpineapple cakeand butter pastries made oflycheeandlongan.
Zhiyun (Chinese:旨醞) is ateppanyakirestaurant that providesset menuofferings and is Feastogether's 11th brand. Zhiyun was opened on May 21, 2024, on the 38th floor ofHongWell i-Tower, which is in theXinzhuang DistrictofNew Taipei.After launching the upscale buffet A Joy in 2023, Feastogether opened Zhiyun as another restaurant targeting the premium dining sector. Among the company's brands, Zhiyun at its opening saw the second highest amount spent by customers per visit. The company planned to use what it learned from the restaurant to improve theteppanyakidishes served at its buffets. Chen Yihang, Feastogether's general manager, said when Zhiyun opened that ifmarket testingwas successful, the company planned over the following three years to launch five more Zhiyun locations.
The venue has 180ping(600 m; 6,400 sq ft) of space and seats 78 people.It has three private rooms, and sixteppanyakistations. Five of theteppanyakistations are rectangular and can each seat 10 people. The sixthteppanyakistation is circular and seats 12 people. The restaurant's entrance is an arched passageway constructed from red bricks. The interior designer modeled the entrance after awine cellartheme in an attempt to express the brand identity of "time can ferment deliciousness" (Chinese:時光能醞釀美味). Customers seated at the restaurant can seehigh risesthrough the window. There is adessertssection where people finished with the main meal can eat sweet foods. It also serves as a waiting place for people who arrive before their reservation time. Taiwan's earliestteppanyakirestaurants had a similar desserts section but later iterations omitted it owing to progressively more expensive rents. In a first for Feastogether restaurants, Zhiyun houses live aquatic animals on its premises. Its fourfish tankshavered rock lobsters,abalonefrom South Africa, andsurf clams. Other ingredients the restaurant used when it opened werescallopsandsea urchinsfromHokkaido,caviar,monkfish,Iberian ham,A5 Wagyu beeffrom Japan, and aprime cutof boneless steak from the United States.
Zhiyun's menu enumerates each dish's ingredients in a plain approach which follows contemporaryWestern cuisineand distinguishes itself from the typicalteppanyakirestaurant. For every Western dish, it adds a "title" in a somewhat refined style like the Japanesekaisekiway of naming dishes where a seasonal dish is described with ahaikuthat celebrates nature. One example is "Formosa" is used to refer to the dish "red shrimp,cuttlefish, and tomatoconsommésoup". Another example is "twin souls dance together" is used to adorn the dish "scallops,clams,XO sauce, andcaviar". A third example is "slow mountain and sea" refers to the dish "surf clams, freshbamboo shoots, andchicken soup". Some of the restaurant's dishes featured cooking methods from China, Japan, and France. Desserts the restaurant served when it opened includedteppanyakipopcornand whiskey-flavored caramel pineapplecheesecake.
Cat General Sushi (Chinese:貓將壽司) will serveà la carteJapanese cuisineand will be Feastogether's 12th brand.Whilesushiwill be the primary offering, other Japanese dishes including grilled dishes and fried items will be served. Ingredients will be sourced from Argentina, Japan, and Taiwan. The restaurant is planned to open in 2025 and will be located on the 14th floor ofFEDS Xinyi A13.
Feastogether released the iEat (Chinese:iEAT饗愛吃) app on 6 August 2019.Chen Yihang, the company'sgeneral manager, led the work on the app, which accrued 400,000 users in 2020, 1.3million in 2022, and almost 2.5 million in 2024.In addition to providing news about Feastogether's more recent initiatives, the app allows customers to make reservations, use accumulated points to get discounts, and use prepaid balances. The app serves as the platform for the company'sloyalty programand is an attempt to attract youth people to its restaurants.
Eatogo (Chinese:饗帶走) is anonline food orderingand delivery platform operated by Feastogether.Eatogo launched around 2021 in the midst of theCOVID-19 pandemic. The Taiwanese government instituted a level three COVID-19 alert which disallowed customers from eating at restaurants. This caused Feastogether's revenue to plummet to 5% of the previous level. After the launch of Eatogo, Feastogether reachedNT$100million (US$3,580,123) in revenue in July 2021. Eatogo had its eight brands and 15 other restaurants on its platform in 2022. It relied on the logistics company Global Express (Chinese:全球快遞) to deliver food to customers who lived within a 5 km (3.1 mi) distance from the restaurant.
Eat@home (Chinese:饗在家) is ane-commerceplatform operated by Feastogether and started during theCOVID-19 pandemicwhen customers spent more time at home. It allows consumers to purchasefrozen mealkitscontaining dishes from its restaurant brands. The meal kits includedim sumand food fromSichuan,Taiwanese, andThaicuisine. The meal kits in 2022 includedcrab legs,scallops,prawns,Iberian ham, andA5 Wagyu beeffrom Japan.In 2021, the platform began selling aNew Yearmeal set named "Awe-Inspiring Feast Set" (Chinese:虎虎生風饗宴組).DuringHalloweenin 2022, the platform started selling the "Trickster's Delight Halloween Limited Edition Gift Box" (Chinese:好食包萬聖限量禮盒). A featured item was "Mr. Pumpkin", acustardthat was sweet and savory. Another item was "Mischievous Black Cat" that contained tiny ears and whiskers. Produced by asesameshop that had operated for more than six decades, the cat was made fromsesame paste. A third item was the "Trickster Ghost" which was made fromtarofromDajia District.Eat@home collaborated withShin Kong Cinemasin 2024 to serve the brand's food at movie theaters inTianmuandQingpu Special District.The three set dishes served were American BBQribs, New Orleans grilledchicken wings, andcinnamon rollsserved with lemon cranberry biscuits,Earl Grey teabiscuits, and cocoa almond biscuits.