The number of customers visiting restaurants nationwide during the week leading up to the 17th of this month, which is the first Sunday after the declaration of emergency has been expanded to 11 prefectures, has decreased by more than 67% from before the spread of the new coronavirus, and the declaration is issued. The survey results show that it is even more depressed than last month.

Tokyo IT company Toreta, which provides reservation and customer management systems for restaurants, surveyed the number of customers who visited about 4,200 restaurants nationwide in the week leading up to 17th this month. ..



According to this, the number of customers visiting the store decreased by 67.7% compared to the same period before the spread of the infection.



The


rate

of decrease for each time zone is

▼ 38.6%


from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm,


73.7% from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm,

▼ 89.2% from 8:00 pm to midnight the next day. The number of customers after 8:00 pm has decreased especially in response to requests to shorten business hours.



Last month, before the state of emergency was declared in 11 prefectures, the number of customers visiting the store decreased by 53.6% from the same period of the previous year in the week leading up to the 20th, and this month after the declaration was issued, the range of decline was wide. It has expanded by more than 14 points.



According to the company surveyed, "The number of customers visiting restaurants has decreased significantly due to the state of emergency. Even after the declaration was issued, the spread of infection has not stopped and the movement to refrain from eating out is spreading, so the number of customers visiting the restaurant is increasing. I think it will decrease further. "