Increasing sales of delivered boxed meals through menu improvements
First written in FY2017-Q1. 14 of 27 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2017-Q2. Latest entry: 2026-08-12.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 1 of 6 companies on the "Worse" side.
3 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- 2026-08-12RestatedResults
「事業所向け宅配弁当につきましては、商品の品質向上に取り組むとともに、専用冷凍庫・冷蔵庫を活用した営業活動を推進しましたが、中食市場との競合激化や喫食者ニーズの多様化の影響により、販売食数は伸び悩みました。」
品質向上と専用冷凍庫・冷蔵庫を活用した営業活動を継続する一方、販売食数は伸び悩んでいる。 - FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we worked to secure the number of meals sold by providing products with strong price appeal and promoting use of “School Lunch,” launched this fiscal year for a group of vocational schools in Niigata Prefecture.」
In addition to products with strong price appeal, “School Lunch” was newly launched for vocational schools, and efforts were made to secure the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold. - 2026-05-14AdvancedResults
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we worked to secure the number of meals sold by providing products with strong price appeal and promoting use of “School Lunch,” launched this fiscal year for a group of vocational schools in Niigata Prefecture.」
価格訴求力の高い商品に加え、専門学校向け「スクールランチ」へ提供先・商品展開を広げている。 - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「We worked to increase the number of meals sold by improving product quality, taste and appearance, installing dedicated freezers and refrigerators at customer workplaces, and promoting sales of frozen boxed lunches and chilled products. In addition, the number of meals sold at the Yonezawa store increased as a result of acquiring a business from another company in the same industry.」
In addition to improving existing menus and quality, efforts have expanded to installing dedicated freezers and refrigerators at customer workplaces, selling frozen boxed lunches and chilled products, and increasing the number of meals sold at the Yonezawa store through a business acquisition. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we continued efforts to create attractive boxed lunches by improving quality, taste and presentation, but the number of meals sold remained sluggish because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs.」
While continuing to improve quality, taste and presentation, the business is again confirming the situation in which the number of meals sold remains sluggish because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Although we continued efforts to revise menus to improve quality, taste and presentation and to create boxed lunches that satisfy customers, the number of meals sold remained soft as diners' needs diversified.」
Although menu revisions focused on quality, taste and presentation continue, the number of meals sold remains soft because of the diversification of diners' needs. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「In response to the diversification of diners' needs, including demand for eating out and prepared meals, we worked to increase the number of meals sold by expanding our product range. In addition, in view of continued high raw-material prices, we worked to improve production efficiency, reduce costs and review selling prices.」
In response to the diversification of diners' needs, the product range was expanded to increase the number of meals sold, while efforts to improve production efficiency, reduce costs and review selling prices continued. Sales in the boxed-lunch catering business increased 6.3% year on year. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we continued efforts to create attractive boxed lunches by improving quality and revising menus, including taste and presentation, amid rising raw-material prices. However, the number of meals sold declined because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs.」
While continuing to revise menus, including taste and presentation, the business is again confirming the situation in which the number of meals sold is declining because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs. - FY2023-Q2Menu improvements coexisting with sluggish growth in the number of meals soldAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we reviewed the contents of the daily menus and worked to improve taste and quality, but the number of meals sold remained sluggish because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs.」
While reviewing the daily menus and improving taste and quality, the number of meals sold remains sluggish because of competition with prepared meals and the diversification of diners' needs. - FY2022-Q1Signs of a recovery in the number of meals soldAnnual report
「In the year-earlier period, operations at customer workplaces declined because of temporary closures, school closures and other factors, and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold declined. However, amid the repeated issuance and lifting of states of emergency, moves to resume working at the workplace instead of teleworking emerged, indicating signs of a recovery in the number of meals sold.」
The number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold, which had declined in the year-earlier period, is showing signs of recovery as employees return to working at the workplace. The disclosure does not state that the recovery has been completed or that the figure has exceeded the previous year. - FY2021-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「In the boxed-lunch catering business, we began revising and replacing menu items to acquire new customers, and signs of recovery were emerging in sales activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, operations at customer workplaces declined owing to the introduction of telework, temporary closures and school closures, and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold declined.」
Although menu revisions and replacements were initiated to acquire new customers, the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold declined as customer workplaces reduced operations, with sales in the boxed-lunch catering business down 2.9% year on year and segment profit down 49.4%. - FY2021-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold declined because the operations of customer workplaces were curtailed by the introduction of telework and temporary closures.」
While continuing to adapt the menus, the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold declined as customer workplaces curtailed operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. - FY2020The number of meals sold declined as demand became more diverseAnnual report
「Although menus were structured to include many popular items, consumers' lunchtime needs have diversified as sales in takeaway formats, including at restaurants, increased, and the number of meals sold fell below the previous year.」
While continuing efforts to include popular menu items, the number of meals sold across the boxed-lunch catering business fell below the previous year as lunchtime needs diversified, including through increased takeaway sales. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「At other stores, although menus were structured to include many relatively popular boxed lunches and efforts were focused on rice bowls and noodle dishes requested by customers, the number of meals sold fell below the previous year.」
Although measures to include popular boxed lunches, rice bowls and noodle dishes in the menus continue, the pattern of the number of meals sold falling below the previous year at stores outside the Chiba Plant also continues. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the boxed-lunch catering business, both the volume of contracted production, including prepared foods, and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold at the Chiba Plant increased from the previous year. At other stores, however, menus incorporated popular boxed lunches with relatively high order volumes, but the number of people eating at the small workplaces and factories that form the core of demand declined, and the number of meals sold fell below the previous year.」
While the volume of contracted production and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold increased at the Chiba Plant, the pattern of some areas increasing while overall growth remained sluggish continued, with the number of meals sold at other stores falling below the previous year. - FY2020-Q1Some areas increased, while overall growth remained sluggishAnnual report
「In the boxed-lunch catering business, the volume of contracted production, including prepared foods, and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold at the Chiba Plant increased from the previous year. At other stores, however, menus incorporated popular products with relatively high order volumes, but the number of employees at the small workplaces and factories that form the core of demand continued to decline, and the number of meals sold remained sluggish.」
While the volume of contracted production and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold increased at the Chiba Plant, the number of meals sold remained sluggish at other stores, leaving improvement and stagnation side by side across the business. - FY2019-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Sales in the boxed-lunch catering business increased from the year-earlier period as the volume of contracted production, including prepared foods, at the Chiba Plant and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold increased, the number of contracted facilities in the company cafeteria operations division grew, and temporary boxed-lunch orders were received in connection with renovations at school-lunch facilities.」
In addition to the volume of contracted production at the Chiba Plant, the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold and the number of contracted company cafeteria facilities, temporary orders related to school-lunch facility renovations contributed to the increase in sales. - FY2019-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Sales in the boxed-lunch catering business increased from the year-earlier period as the volume of contracted production, including prepared foods, at the Chiba Plant and the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold increased, while the number of contracted facilities in the company cafeteria operations division also grew.」
The increase in the number of workplace-delivered boxed lunches sold contributed to higher sales in the boxed-lunch catering business. - FY2019-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Sales in the division that operates company cafeterias under contract increased as the number of contracted facilities, including school cafeterias, grew. Sales also increased from the year-earlier period partly because customers were accepted from another company in the same industry in Hokkaido last June.」
In addition to accepting customers in Hokkaido, the increase in contracted facilities, including company cafeterias and school cafeterias, drove sales in the boxed-lunch catering business above the year-earlier period. - FY2018AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, the acceptance of customers from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido increased the average number of meals sold on weekdays in the region by 29.8% from the end of the year-earlier period.」
Customers were accepted from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido, and the average number of meals sold on weekdays increased 29.8% from the end of the year-earlier period. - FY2018-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we accepted customers from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido, increasing the average number of meals sold on weekdays in the region by 27.3% from the end of the year-earlier period.」
Customers were accepted from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido, and the average number of meals sold on weekdays increased 27.3% from the end of the year-earlier period. - FY2018-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we accepted customers from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido, increasing the average number of meals sold on weekdays in the region by 31.5% from the end of the year-earlier period.」
Customers were accepted from other companies in the same industry in Hokkaido, and the average number of meals sold on weekdays increased 31.5% from the end of the year-earlier period. - FY2018-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we incorporated more popular items into our main boxed-lunch offerings. In Niigata Prefecture, seasonal noodles and udon are offered on different days of the week and have been well received by customers. In addition, efforts to maintain and establish appropriate selling prices in line with costs resulted in sales and profit exceeding the year-earlier period.」
The provision of popular menu items and seasonal noodles and udon, together with efforts to maintain appropriate prices, resulted in sales and profit in the boxed-lunch catering business exceeding the year-earlier period. - FY2017AdvancedAnnual report
「For boxed lunches delivered to workplaces, we worked to improve the monthly menu so that the products would make a stronger impression, while expanding into the Kanto region side-menu offerings such as health-conscious boxed lunches and noodle dishes that had been well received in Niigata Prefecture, thereby striving to provide products that meet customer needs.」
In addition to improving the monthly menu, health-conscious boxed lunches and noodle dishes and other side-menu items are being expanded into the Kanto region. - FY2017-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「For delivered boxed meals for offices, we improved the monthly menu by incorporating more popular items, and increased average daily meal sales by offering products tailored to customer needs, such as bibimbap bowls and nabeyaki udon prepared by customers using solid fuel to heat them from autumn through winter, in addition to our core boxed meals.」
In addition to improving the monthly menu, bibimbap bowls and nabeyaki udon were introduced for autumn and winter, and the document reports higher average daily meal sales. - FY2017-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「For delivered boxed meals for offices, we improved the monthly menu by incorporating more popular items, and average daily meal sales increased as a result of offering cold noodles, soba and other items on different days during the summer in Niigata Prefecture, in addition to our core boxed meals.」
In addition to improving the monthly menu, cold noodles and soba were offered during the summer, resulting in higher average daily meal sales. - FY2017-Q1First statedAnnual report
「While improving the monthly menu to make the products more appealing, hits among new menu items such as "柿の種から揚げ" resulted in average daily sales of 75,800 meals during the 3-month period ended in the first quarter, up 1.9% from the end of the previous consolidated fiscal year.」
First appearance. The document reports average daily sales of 75,800 meals, up 1.9% from the end of the previous fiscal year, through improvements to the monthly menu and the introduction of new menu items.