Food and Drink January 4, 2015 12:37 pm

Japanese Restaurant Chains


Food and Drink January 4, 2015 12:37 pm

Japanese Restaurant Chains


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Quick, fresh, tasty and cheap; or at least very reasonable priced, these are the words you would associate with Japanese food chains and quick restaurants. There are a lot of different food chains in Japan offering Japanese as well as Western kitchen. These include fast food restaurants, which are different from most western fast food chains as well as other restaurant chains like family restaurants.

Japanese Restaurant Chains: A Quick Look

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CoCo 壱番屋 Curry house chain

CoCo Ichibanya is the most popular food chain for Japanese Style Curry. The chain has restaurants all over Japan and 46 restaurants overseas. People often praise the taste-quality as well as variety of CoCo’s Curry dishes.

Tenya てんや Tempura bowl chain

Tenya is the most successful Tendon (Rice bowl with Tempura) restaurant chain in Japan. Besides Tempura, soba noodles are also their speciality. Due to special cooking systems Tendon Tenya manages to offer Tempura dishes, which were once regarded as expensive cuisines, at very affordable prices to their customers.

Matsuya 松屋 Beef bowl & other meal Chain

Matsuya is one of the big gyudon (beef bowl) chains in Japan and puts a greater emphasis on the restaurants atmosphere and seating than other gyudon chains. Besides Donburi(Bowls) it also has a large variety of meal sets.

Chikara Meshi 東京チカラめし Beef Bowl Chain

Chikara Meshi (which means “Power Food”), mainly based in Tokyo area follows the tradition of other gyuudon chains like Matsuya or Yoshinoya, but with some extra additions. Chikara Meshi has a notable variety of special flavored/served sorts of beef/pork bowls. For example; a popular gyuudon version is their “cheese gyuudon”, a beef bowl with melted cheese on top of it.

Ootoya 大戸屋 Japanese Meal Restaurant Chain

Ootoya is specialized in serving reasonably priced higher quality Japanese-style meals. Their set meals have several side dishes by standard and mainly consist of a rice bowl, vegetables or fresh salad and various sorts of finely prepared meat.

MOS Burger モスバーガー Hamburger Chain

MOS Burger is a fast-food restaurant chain and currently the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan. MOS Burger is specialized in hamburger and they started with the eponymous standard hamburger offered by the restaurant, being its first product when it opened in 1972. A unique product of MOS Burger is the Rice Burger, which differs from normal Burgers through rice buns instead of bread buns being used.

Gusto ガスト Coffee & (Family) Restaurant

Gusto is a typical Japanese Family Restaurant Chain. Family Restaurants in Japan have all kinds of food, Japanese, Western and Chinese, appetizers, main dishes and desserts. Additionally most of them also have a “drink bar”, which means a self-service sideboard where you can choose from a large variety of drinks (hot and cold type) with free refills of any sort of drink.

Jonathan’s ジョナサンCoffee & (Family) Restaurant

Jonathan’s is also a typical and one of the most popular Family Restaurant Chains in Japan. They usually have very spacious dining rooms. The menu of Jonathan’s is very similar to other Family Restaurants like Gusto. They also have a variety of Western-style as well as Japanese-style breakfast sets.


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Quick, fresh, tasty and cheap; or at least very reasonable priced, these are the words you would associate with Japanese food chains and quick restaurants. There are a lot of different food chains in Japan offering Japanese as well as Western kitchen. These include fast food restaurants, which are different from most western fast food chains as well as other restaurant chains like family restaurants.

Japanese Restaurant Chains: A Quick Look

Photo by: ChingHua Chung – #85 天丼てんや,不少貌似遲下班的上班族在此用餐

CoCo 壱番屋 Curry house chain

CoCo Ichibanya is the most popular food chain for Japanese Style Curry. The chain has restaurants all over Japan and 46 restaurants overseas. People often praise the taste-quality as well as variety of CoCo’s Curry dishes.

Tenya てんや Tempura bowl chain

Tenya is the most successful Tendon (Rice bowl with Tempura) restaurant chain in Japan. Besides Tempura, soba noodles are also their speciality. Due to special cooking systems Tendon Tenya manages to offer Tempura dishes, which were once regarded as expensive cuisines, at very affordable prices to their customers.

Matsuya 松屋 Beef bowl & other meal Chain

Matsuya is one of the big gyudon (beef bowl) chains in Japan and puts a greater emphasis on the restaurants atmosphere and seating than other gyudon chains. Besides Donburi(Bowls) it also has a large variety of meal sets.

Chikara Meshi 東京チカラめし Beef Bowl Chain

Chikara Meshi (which means “Power Food”), mainly based in Tokyo area follows the tradition of other gyuudon chains like Matsuya or Yoshinoya, but with some extra additions. Chikara Meshi has a notable variety of special flavored/served sorts of beef/pork bowls. For example; a popular gyuudon version is their “cheese gyuudon”, a beef bowl with melted cheese on top of it.

Ootoya 大戸屋 Japanese Meal Restaurant Chain

Ootoya is specialized in serving reasonably priced higher quality Japanese-style meals. Their set meals have several side dishes by standard and mainly consist of a rice bowl, vegetables or fresh salad and various sorts of finely prepared meat.

MOS Burger モスバーガー Hamburger Chain

MOS Burger is a fast-food restaurant chain and currently the second-largest fast-food franchise in Japan. MOS Burger is specialized in hamburger and they started with the eponymous standard hamburger offered by the restaurant, being its first product when it opened in 1972. A unique product of MOS Burger is the Rice Burger, which differs from normal Burgers through rice buns instead of bread buns being used.

Gusto ガスト Coffee & (Family) Restaurant

Gusto is a typical Japanese Family Restaurant Chain. Family Restaurants in Japan have all kinds of food, Japanese, Western and Chinese, appetizers, main dishes and desserts. Additionally most of them also have a “drink bar”, which means a self-service sideboard where you can choose from a large variety of drinks (hot and cold type) with free refills of any sort of drink.

Jonathan’s ジョナサンCoffee & (Family) Restaurant

Jonathan’s is also a typical and one of the most popular Family Restaurant Chains in Japan. They usually have very spacious dining rooms. The menu of Jonathan’s is very similar to other Family Restaurants like Gusto. They also have a variety of Western-style as well as Japanese-style breakfast sets.


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Categorised in: , ,

This post was written by Mathew Ryan