Among the izakaya chains that have been suffering from the corona sickness, there is a growing movement to strengthen the development and recruitment of human resources necessary for changing the business format.
AP Holdings, which operates "Tsukada Farm," plans to change the format of izakaya, which has a difficult business performance due to corona, to a yakitori specialty store and a yakitori restaurant, in addition to leveraging the menu.
For this reason, we are focusing on developing skills for izakaya employees, and we will learn techniques through several months of practical skills such as "skewering" and sushi rice, which are indispensable for preparing authentic yakitori.
With a policy of training 150 cooks with sushi and yakitori, COO Shusaku Nomoto says, "I want to expand the recognition as a specialty store from the image of a general izakaya."
In addition, Watami plans to more than double the number of mid-career hires this year and increase the number of yakiniku restaurants to 130 in the next five years in order to secure human resources who specialize in the operation of yakiniku restaurants.