Major hamburger chain ``Mos Food Service'' will start delivering ingredients to stores early in the morning, when traffic jams can be avoided, starting from April 1, mainly in urban areas, in an effort to shorten the working hours of drivers. is expanding to.
"MOS Food Service" is progressing in stages to respond to the 2024 logistics problem, and from April 1st, it will accelerate the delivery of ingredients to stores between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. Expand further.
Previously, deliveries were made from around 6 a.m. to around 2 p.m., but the aim is to avoid the daytime hours when roads are congested and shorten drivers' working hours.
At a store in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, a truck arrived at around 6:30 a.m. on the 1st, and the driver unlocked the store before it opened and loaded vegetables, sauces, and other ingredients into refrigerated cases.
The male driver said, ``I'm glad that the work went smoothly and that I was able to complete the work in a shorter time.''
The company has been gradually introducing this initiative since last fall, and plans to expand it to approximately one-third of its stores nationwide, mainly in urban areas, by the end of this fiscal year.
Tetsuya Shoji of the Product Distribution Group said, ``Up until now, shippers have thought that all they had to do was ask for the goods to be transported, but now they need to work together to find solutions.'' I did.