Frank Fat

What Frank Fat does

Frank Fat's is a family-owned Chinese-American restaurant located at 806 L Street in downtown Sacramento, California, founded in 1939 by an immigrant dishwasher and continuously operated by the Fat family for 85+ years. It is the oldest family-owned restaurant in Sacramento and operates as the flagship of the Fat Family Restaurant Group (FFRG), a privately held parent that also owns Fat City Bar & Café in Old Sacramento, Fat's Asia Bistro & Dim Sum Bars in Roseville and Folsom, and Fat's Catering. The restaurant is positioned as a fine-dining Chinese-American institution, recognized with the 2013 James Beard Foundation America's Classics Award, and has historically served Sacramento's political class and downtown professional community given its proximity to the State Capitol.

The core product is sit-down dining at the 806 L Street flagship, supported by takeout via Aloha Order Online, third-party delivery via order.online, eGift cards through CardFoundry, online reservations via OpenTable, event catering through Fat's Catering, and a pre-order program for signature items like banana cream pie. The group also operates the FFRG Rewards loyalty program, which collects customer contact and purchase data to support email marketing and retargeted promotions, alongside a community fundraising initiative for local organizations.

Revenue is generated almost entirely through transaction-based dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and one-time gift card sales, with no public pricing, no disclosed revenue, no external funding, and no enterprise or contract-based revenue streams. The customer base is concentrated in the Sacramento metropolitan area, segmented between the local community and a secondary political/government segment, with the business dependent on the foot traffic and downtown ecosystem of a single physical location.

Name

Frank Fat

Legal name

Frank Fat's

Website

https://frankfats.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1939

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Frank Fat's is a family-owned Chinese-American fine-dining restaurant in downtown Sacramento, founded in 1939 and the flagship of the Fat Family Restaurant Group. It serves the local Sacramento community, downtown professionals, and political figures with dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and gift cards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Full-service Chinese-American restaurant

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Family-Style Restaurants (THAFACAC)

Keywords

• Chinese-American restaurant
• Fine dining
• Event catering
• Family-style restaurant
• Banana cream pie

Headquarters

HQ city

Sacramento

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. In-restaurant dining: Dine-in service at 806 L Street, Sacramento location. Operating hours vary by day (closed Mondays).
2. Takeout and Delivery: Online ordering for takeout via Aloha Order Online platform, delivery via order.online third-party service.
3. Gift cards: eGift cards sold through Fat Family Restaurant Group gift card portal at fatsrestaurants.cardfoundry.com.
4. Catering and Events: Catering services for private events, holiday parties, and group gatherings. Pre-orders for specialty items like banana cream pies.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Frank Fat's is a traditional Chinese-American fine-dining restaurant located at 806 L Street in downtown Sacramento, founded in 1939. The restaurant serves handcrafted modern Chinese cuisine for dine-in, supplemented by online takeout ordering, third-party delivery, eGift card sales, OpenTable reservations, holiday party hosting, and signature items such as banana cream pies. The restaurant operates as the flagship concept of the Fat Family Restaurant Group, alongside sister brands Fat City Bar & Café, Fat's Asia Bistro & Dim Sum Bars, and Fat's Catering.

Product overview

Frank Fat's is a traditional Chinese-American restaurant operating as the flagship of the Fat Family Restaurant Group. The core offering is sit-down dining at the Sacramento location with handcrafted classic dishes. The product portfolio includes digital services (online ordering via Aloha Order Online, delivery, OpenTable reservations), retail products (eGift Cards, signature banana cream pies), and private event services (holiday parties, catering). The Fat Family Restaurant Group encompasses multiple sub-brands including Fat City Bar & Café (Old Sacramento, 1976), Fat's Asia Bistro & Dim Sum Bars (Roseville 2000, Folsom 2004), and Fat's Catering (1980). The group also operates loyalty programs (FFRG Rewards) and community fundraising initiatives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Frank Fat's Restaurant (Dine-in Service)
• Online Takeout Ordering
• Food Delivery Service
• Frank Fat's eGift Cards
• Holiday Party Reservations
• Online Table Reservations (OpenTable)
• Banana Cream Pie Pre-Orders
• FFRG Rewards Loyalty Program
• FFRG Community Fundraising Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Oldest family-owned restaurant in Sacramento to be owned exclusively by one family

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Fat Family Restaurant GroupcoreOthersFrank Fat's is owned and operated by Fat Family Restaurant Group (FFRG), the parent company that also operates Fat City Bar & Cafe, Fat's Asia Bistro & Dim Sum Bars in Roseville and Folsom, and Fat's Catering. FFRG is headquartered at 2500 Natomas Park Drive, Sacramento, CA 95833.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• House of Prime Rib: Long-running, family-owned San Francisco institution operating since 1949. Closest direct comparable to Frank Fat's as a multi-generational, single-location fine-dining heritage restaurant that has become a civic landmark for politicians and business elites.
• China Live: San Francisco Chinese dining and cultural destination combining fine dining, casual, and retail. Direct peer as a multi-format Chinese food and beverage concept with strong institutional positioning.
• The Musso & Frank Grill: Hollywood's oldest restaurant (1919), family-run historic fine-dining institution with a celebrity and power-broker clientele. Direct peer on heritage, family ownership, single flagship location, and embedded institutional customer base.
• Swan Oyster Depot: Iconic 1912 San Francisco seafood counter and institution. Direct peer as a century-old, family-owned, single-location San Francisco Bay Area dining landmark with deeply loyal repeat clientele and a James Beard-recognized heritage.
• Localis: Sacramento's farm-to-table fine-dining restaurant. Direct local peer competing for the same high-end Sacramento diners, politicians, and special-occasion occasions.
• The Firehouse Restaurant: Historic fine-dining restaurant in Old Sacramento, Sacramento's other landmark heritage dining venue. Direct local peer in the Sacramento historic fine-dining market and the same Fat Family Restaurant Group–adjacent competitive set.
• Empress by Bo: Sacramento-based modern Chinese/Asian concept. Direct category peer to Frank Fat's in the local Chinese dining market, competing for the same Cantonese-leaning Sacramento audience.

Others

• Fat's Asia Bistro & Dim Sum Bar: Sister brand under Fat Family Restaurant Group operating Asian cuisine and dim sum in Roseville and Folsom. Included as an internal comparable and potential cross-sell channel rather than a competitor.

Broad incumbents

• P.F. Chang's: National upscale-casual Chinese-American chain. Broad incumbent in the Chinese-American category; provides a reference point for category economics, even though its format and target customer are quite different from Frank Fat's.
• Din Tai Fung: Globally scaled Taiwanese/Chinese fine-dining brand. Broad incumbent in Chinese dining — relevant as a benchmark for what scaled Chinese specialty concepts can achieve, even though it does not target Frank Fat's heritage fine-dining niche.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/frankfats

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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