Shawayahouse

What Shawayahouse does

Shawayahouse (بيت الشواية) is a Saudi Arabian restaurant chain founded in 2004 and operated by Shawaya House Company, a limited liability company wholly owned by the diversified Saudi conglomerate Abdullah Ali Almunajem Sons Company. The company operates 40 branches across all five major regions of Saudi Arabia — including Riyadh, Dammam, Al Khobar, Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Tabuk, Sabya, and Jazan — with a mix of full-service dine-in locations and cloud-kitchen delivery-only formats. Its core offering is traditional Saudi cuisine centered on grilled chicken and rice dishes (Shawaya, Kabsa, Mandi, Zurbian), supplemented by seafood, fresh goat meat platters, and family-sized platters, with menu prices ranging from approximately 0.5 SAR for bottled water to 179 SAR for family meat platters.

The company runs three revenue streams: (1) retail dine-in, takeout, and delivery through company-owned branches and a branded mobile app on iOS and Google Play, with third-party delivery enabled through the Taker.io platform; (2) corporate and institutional catering under monthly or annual contracts targeting companies, factories, mosques, and charitable associations, delivered in temperature-controlled packaging using a 300+ vehicle fleet; and (3) franchise licensing at 500,000–1,000,000 SAR per unit, with a 150,000 SAR franchise fee, 4% royalty, 3% marketing fee, and a 10-year agreement term. Total served volume exceeds 1 million customers annually, with 1 million+ Ramadan Iftar meals delivered over 15 years and 2 million+ Hajj season meals.

The technology base is conventional: a website, branded mobile apps, and Taker.io-powered online ordering, with no proprietary AI, API, SDK, or developer platform disclosed. The company is ISO 22000:2018 certified for food safety management with dual accreditation from LL-C Certification and SGS, and employs 19 persons with disabilities as part of a Saudi Vision 2030 partnership with a disability affairs association. No revenue, funding, M&A, or leadership change data is publicly disclosed.

Name

Shawayahouse

Legal name

شركة مطاعم بيت الشواية (Shawaya House Company)

Website

https://shawayahouse.com.sa

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Riyadh

HQ country

Saudi Arabia

HQ region

Middle East

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Dine-In and Takeout: Traditional restaurant operations offering dine-in, takeout, and delivery of traditional Saudi rice and chicken dishes. Revenue from individual customer transactions at multiple branch locations across Saudi Arabia.
2. Corporate Catering & Meal Supply Contracts: Bulk meal supply contracts with companies, institutions, factories, charitable associations, and mosques. Contracts are offered on monthly or annual basis at competitive prices with fast service and high quality.
3. Franchise Royalty Income: Franchise model generating royalty income from 40 franchisee-operated branches. Royalty fee of 4% and marketing fee of 3% per unit.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Shawayahouse operates a chain of more than 40 restaurant branches across Saudi Arabia serving traditional Saudi dishes including grilled shawaya chicken, kabsa, mandi, zurbian, fresh goat (hashi), and seafood platters through dine-in, takeout, and delivery. The company also provides bulk corporate and institutional meal catering on monthly and annual contracts, and licenses its brand through a franchise program with unit-level royalties and marketing fees. Orders can be placed through company-owned branches, a proprietary mobile app, third-party delivery platforms, or directly through the corporate sales team.

Product overview

Shawaya House is a 100% Saudi-owned restaurant chain established in 1425 AH (2004 CE) operating in the food and restaurant sector. The company offers a unified restaurant experience centered on traditional Saudi cuisine (grilled shawaya chicken, kabsa, mandi, zurbian, seafood dishes) delivered through dine-in service, mobile app ordering, and corporate catering. The product portfolio consists of the core restaurant dining service, a mobile ordering application, corporate/catering meal services, and a franchise program. All offerings are unified under the Shawaya House brand identity focused on quality standards and ISO 22000:2018 food safety certification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Shawaya House Restaurant (Core Dining) Traditional Saudi restaurant chain offering grilled shawaya chicken, kabsa, mandi, zurbian, fresh goat (hashi), and seafood platters across more than 40 dine-in and cloud kitchen branches in Saudi Arabia, with dine-in, pickup, and delivery service.
• Corporate & Catering Services Bulk meal supply and catering services for companies, institutions, factories, charitable associations, mosques, and project sites across Saudi Arabia, delivered in temperature-maintaining containers under monthly or annual contracts.
• Shawaya House Mobile Ordering App Company-branded mobile application available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store that lets individual customers place pickup and delivery orders directly from Shawaya House branches.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1 million customers served annually
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• LL-C (Certification) organizationcoreOthersLL-C (Certification) is an internationally accredited certification organization that issued Shawaya House a certificate of approval for applying the highest health, safety, and food safety standards in accordance with ISO international standardization requirements.
• SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance)coreOthersSGS is an internationally accredited organization that provided Shawaya House with accreditation certificates for applying the highest standards of safety, quality, and food management.
• Disability Affairs Association (unspecified)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerShawaya House entered into a cooperation agreement with an association concerned with disability affairs as part of its social responsibility and commitment to Vision 2030, to support persons with disabilities.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AlBaik: Dominant Saudi fried-chicken and seafood fast-food chain with 100+ branches across Saudi Arabia. Directly competes with Shawayahouse in chicken-focused QSR and holds the national brand recognition benchmark in the category.
• Pizza Hut Saudi Arabia: Operated by Americana Group, Pizza Hut competes with Shawayahouse in family dine-in, delivery, and corporate catering segments. Comparable in delivery infrastructure and Saudi market presence.
• KFC Saudi Arabia: Operated in Saudi Arabia by Americana Group, KFC competes directly for chicken-focused dine-in, delivery, and family occasions. Comparable in menu category (chicken) and target customer base.
• Al Tazaj: Saudi Arabian grilled-chicken and rice-dish restaurant chain with a comparable traditional Saudi cuisine menu (grilled chicken, rice platters). Directly competes with Shawayahouse in the same product category and customer segments across Saudi Arabia.
• Herfy Foods: Saudi publicly listed burger and fried-chicken chain with bakery operations and broad branch coverage. Competes with Shawayahouse in family QSR occasions and is comparable in scale and customer demographics.
• McDonald's Saudi Arabia: Operated through a local licensee, McDonald's competes directly with Shawayahouse in family QSR, delivery, and corporate catering occasions across all major Saudi cities.
• Burger King Saudi Arabia: Saudi QSR competitor with broad branch coverage and shared dine-in, delivery, and family-meal occasions. Overlaps with Shawayahouse in mass-market Saudi family dining.
• Kudu: Saudi fast-food chain operating sandwich, burger, and chicken meals across 100+ branches. Directly competes with Shawayahouse for dine-in and delivery occasions in the Saudi mass-market QSR segment.

Emerging players

• Tamia Foods: Saudi-based emerging food brand with overlap in traditional and contemporary Middle Eastern cuisine, competing in select Saudi urban markets. Represents a digitally native and brand-forward emerging competitor relevant for benchmarking customer-acquisition dynamics.

Broad incumbents

• Americana Group: Kuwait-based MENA operator of KFC, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, and Krispy Kreme franchises across the region, including Saudi Arabia. A broad incumbent with overlapping QSR capabilities and significantly larger scale and geographic footprint than Shawayahouse.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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