Our 9 year old wants dinner at 7.30 like her friends. We rarely sit down before 9

Client reviews often run late for me, and my partner likes us to eat together once I'm home, so dinner has always been around 9 for all three of us. She's started saying she's starving by 7, and that everyone in her class has eaten and is in bed by the time we start. The obvious answer is to feed her earlier and let her sit with us later, but she says that's 'eating alone'. Has anyone split dinner like this and kept it feeling like a family meal? Or did you move the whole household earlier?