New Corona Increasingly Severe Restaurant There is also a move to maintain employment by transferring business

As the environment surrounding restaurants is becoming more severe, such as the spread of the new coronavirus infection has forced us to shorten business hours, we will maintain store sales and employee employment by transferring the business to other companies as it is. There are a lot of movements to try.

Increased consultations with intermediaries for business transfer

It is said that the number of consultations from restaurants, which used to be about several times a month, has increased since the spread of the new coronavirus infection, mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, at a business transfer agency in Tokyo.

Since the beginning of this month, more than 30 consultations have been received, and sales have decreased significantly due to the impact of the second state of emergency, and consultations that the store name and employee employment should be maintained and transferred. It means that there are many.

The company is looking for a wide range of buyers, and recently the transfer price has fallen, which means that companies in different industries and regions are increasingly considering acquisitions.

Kazushi Arai of Japan M & A Solution said, "The number of restaurants with properties and brands in the city center is increasing, and some buyers want to take over the employees. Even if the transfer price is low, the employment of employees I want you to make effective use of the M & A method to protect the brand of the store. "

In addition, at another IT company in Tokyo that handles business transfer brokerage services, requests from restaurants have increased by about 20% compared to before the spread of infection, and the movement of restaurant business transfer will continue to expand in the future. Expected.

In some cases, the store was not closed due to business transfer

The Irish pub in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo is said to have been able to avoid closing due to the business transfer while sales declined significantly due to the impact of the new coronavirus.

The store, which opened two years ago, once had sales of more than 3 million yen a month, but since the state of emergency was declared in April last year, it has been forced to close and shorten business hours, and sales are one-third. I was depressed to the extent.

While the earnings outlook was uncertain, the store manager, Go Kawai, was told by another partner that he wanted to raise the funds he had provided, and he was on the verge of whether the store could survive.

Still, Mr. Kawai consulted with a business transfer agency in July last year to try to keep the store open in order to protect the employment of one employee, and as a result, he was thinking of entering the restaurant business in Tokyo. A business transfer with an apparel company has been completed.

The name of the store and the employment of its employees have been maintained, and now it has been forced to close again due to the second state of emergency, but it will be reopened when things improve.

Kawai, the manager of the Peter Call Kanda store, said, "I was really happy to be able to continue business because I asked for the business transfer at the last minute. First of all, it is important to protect the employment of employees, so instead of going out of business immediately, various things I think it's important to think about the survival of the store using methods. "