Demand for "pots for one person" increases due to shorter business hours at restaurants

With the shortening of restaurant business hours due to the state of emergency, the number of opportunities to eat at home has increased, and the demand for cooking utensils used at home, such as hot pots for one person, to enjoy sukiyaki is increasing.

At the cookware stores that have been operating for over 100 years in the Aibabashi shopping district in Taito-ku, Tokyo, where many specialty stores are lined up and many people involved in restaurants visit, sales to restaurants and inns are increasing due to the spread of infection. In addition to dropping to about 60% of the previous level, foreign tourists rarely visit.

Orders from restaurants and other places have decreased further in response to this state of emergency, but sales to individual customers are increasing instead.

Sales to individual customers are about 1.5 times higher than before, as more people cook at home due to increased work from home and shorter business hours at restaurants.

According to the store, you can enjoy sukiyaki and porridge, and the hot pot for one person used in inns, the iron plate for steak used in family restaurants, and the egg maker are gaining popularity.

Until now, these products were rarely bought by individual customers, so this store is responding to the needs of individual customers by purchasing new small woks.

Yuta Iida, president of the cooking utensil store "Iidaya", said, "Orders from restaurants that have returned little by little have decreased sharply after the second state of emergency. The time spent at home due to the corona wreck has increased, and it is new. I feel that more and more people want to enjoy cooking at home, such as trying to cook. The sales of individual customers are supporting and helping. "

Cookware store president "Orders have decreased sharply in the second declaration"

Yuta Iida, president of the cooking utensil store "Iidaya", said, "Orders from restaurants that have returned little by little have decreased sharply after the second state of emergency. The time spent at home due to the corona wreck has increased, and it is new. I feel that more and more people want to enjoy cooking at home, such as trying to cook. The sales of individual customers are supporting and helping. "