As the sales of eating out declined due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, Saizeriya, a major family restaurant, decided to open a small store that can be operated by three employees on the site of a convenience store.
The aim is to reduce costs such as rent and labor costs and secure profits.
Saizeriya opened its first small store on the 7th.
This store is located on the site of a convenience store in Nerima, Tokyo, and has an area of about 40% of the standard store.
This means that the number of employees can be three, including cooking and customer service.
Saizeriya's sales and number of customers for the six months to February decreased by more than 20% compared to the same period of the previous year due to the shortening of business hours due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
The company believes that it will be difficult to recover the number of customers, especially during the night hours, even if the infection with the new corona is resolved, and wants to reduce costs such as rent and labor costs by opening small stores and secure profits. I will.
At the stores, we plan to increase sales other than eating and drinking by selling ingredients such as chicken used in the menu, and we plan to increase the number of such small stores in the future.
Sayaka Uchimura, General Manager of the Transformation Promotion Department of Saizeriya, said, "I would like to proceed with building a new type of store while verifying how profits can be obtained."