Competition for talent and rising labor costs in the food service industry
First written in FY2016-Q3. 22 of 29 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-08-13.
G-Factory moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2020, 1 year after the typical company in this theme (2019).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2022: 50 of 59 companies on the "Worse" side.
25 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging due to rising labor costs associated with chronic labor shortages and soaring raw material and energy unit prices.」
The company reiterates that chronic labor shortages and rising labor costs, together with soaring raw material and energy prices, remain ongoing risks in the food service industry. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「The challenging operating environment has continued, including chronic labor shortages, rising labor and energy costs, and persistently high raw material prices.」
The company reaffirms that chronic labor shortages and rising labor and energy costs are factors contributing to the challenging environment in the food service industry. - FY2024-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Although the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, has continued to face challenging conditions due to soaring raw material prices and utility costs, as well as rising labor costs, customer traffic has begun to recover as inbound demand recovers, and the industry showed an overall gradual recovery trend.」
The company reaffirms that the food service industry's challenging environment, including rising labor costs, has continued, while customer traffic has recovered on the back of inbound demand. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Although the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, has continued to face challenging conditions due to soaring raw material prices and utility costs, as well as rising labor costs, customer traffic has begun to recover as inbound demand recovers, and the industry showed an overall recovery trend.」
The company continues to cite the challenging environment resulting from higher raw material prices, utility costs and labor costs, while also noting the recovery in customer traffic. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Although the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, has continued to face challenging conditions due to soaring raw material prices and utility costs, as well as rising labor costs, customer traffic has begun to recover as inbound demand recovers, and the industry showed an overall gradual recovery trend.」
The company reiterates its view that challenging conditions have continued due to higher raw material prices, utility costs and labor costs. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The food service industry has continued to face challenging conditions due to soaring raw material prices and utility costs, as well as rising labor costs.」
The company reiterates the challenging environment in the food service industry resulting from higher raw material prices, utility costs and labor costs. - FY2022-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, despite the lifting of business restrictions related to COVID-19, due to lower consumer sentiment resulting from the seventh wave of infections, soaring raw material prices and utility costs caused in part by the weaker yen, and higher labor costs, among other factors.」
The company states that challenging conditions have continued even after business restrictions were lifted, including soaring raw material prices and utility costs caused by the seventh wave of infections and the weaker yen, as well as rising labor costs. - FY2022-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to the renewed spread of infections after priority preventive measures were fully lifted in March, soaring resource and raw material procurement prices, and higher labor costs resulting from hourly wage increases to secure personnel.」
The company explicitly cites higher labor costs resulting from hourly wage increases to secure personnel, indicating that the existing risks of hiring difficulties and rising labor costs have continued. - FY2021-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The spread of COVID-19 has yet to subside, and temporary store closures and shorter operating hours have continued intermittently under states of emergency and priority preventive measures issued in response to the pandemic. Overall revenue has declined, as customer traffic has not recovered, and a challenging, uncertain outlook has continued.」
The company states that, in the food service industry, temporary store closures and shorter operating hours have continued under states of emergency and other measures while the pandemic has yet to subside, and customer traffic and revenue have not recovered. - FY2020WorsenedAnnual report
「The spread of COVID-19 has yet to subside in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, and requests from the government and local authorities to refrain from going out and requests for temporary store closures and shorter operating hours have continued intermittently. Overall revenue has declined, as customer traffic has not recovered, and a challenging, uncertain outlook has continued.」
The company states that, in addition to the existing challenges involving personnel and the competitive environment, administrative requests, declining customer traffic and declining revenue have continued. - FY2020-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「Overall revenue has declined and a challenging, uncertain outlook has continued, as customer traffic has not recovered even after requests from the government and local authorities to refrain from going out and requests for temporary store closures and shorter operating hours related to the spread of COVID-19 were lifted.」
In addition to the existing challenges involving personnel and the competitive environment, customer traffic has not recovered even after the various requests were lifted, and declining revenue and challenging conditions have continued in the food service industry. - FY2020-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, as competition with companies in other industries has continued to intensify due to growing demand for takeout meals and increasingly diverse consumer preferences, while requests from the government and local authorities to refrain from going out and requests for temporary store closures and shorter operating hours have continued in connection with the spread of COVID-19.」
In addition to the existing challenges involving personnel and the competitive environment, the company explicitly cites the impact of requests to refrain from going out, temporary store closures and shorter operating hours. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs, intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences, and the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.」
The company continues to cite rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition, while newly citing the severe impact of the infection. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences.」
The company reiterates that rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition are factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food service industry. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has continued to be challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to changing and increasingly diverse customer needs, rising personnel recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages, and higher raw material prices and logistics costs, among other factors.」
The company reiterates that rising personnel recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages, together with changing customer needs and higher raw material and logistics costs, are factors contributing to the challenging operating environment. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has continued to be challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to changing and increasingly diverse customer needs, rising personnel recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages, and intensifying competition among companies.」
The company continues to cite increasingly diverse customer needs, rising recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages, and intensifying competition among companies as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food service industry. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences.」
The company reiterates that rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition across industries and business formats are factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food service industry. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences.」
The company continues to cite rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food service industry. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has continued to be challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and intensifying competition among companies.」
The company cites rising recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and intensifying competition among companies as factors contributing to the continued challenging operating environment. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has continued to be challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and intensifying competition among companies.」
The company cites rising recruitment-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and intensifying competition among companies as factors contributing to the continued challenging operating environment. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has continued to be challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences.」
The company cites rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition as factors contributing to the continued challenging operating environment. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「The operating environment has remained challenging in the food service industry, a major customer industry for the group, due to rising personnel recruitment-related costs and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences.」
The company continues to cite rising personnel recruitment costs and intensifying competition as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment in the food service industry. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In addition to competition for talent and rising personnel-related costs resulting from increasing difficulty in hiring personnel, the operating environment has remained challenging due to higher raw material prices caused by weather uncertainty, changes in consumer behavior resulting from increasingly diverse consumer preferences, and intensifying competition among companies across industries and business formats.」
The company continues to cite competition for talent, hiring difficulties and rising personnel-related costs as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Labor costs have continued to rise due to competition for talent and increasing difficulty in hiring personnel.」
The company continues to cite competition for talent, hiring difficulties and rising labor costs in the food service industry. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Labor costs have continued to rise due to competition for talent and increasing difficulty in hiring personnel.」
The company continues to cite competition for talent, hiring difficulties and rising labor costs in the food service industry. - FY2016RestatedAnnual report
「Labor costs have continued to rise due to intensifying competition for talent and increasing difficulty in hiring personnel.」
Competition for talent, hiring difficulties and rising labor costs continue to be cited as factors affecting the food service industry's operating environment. - FY2016-Q3First statedAnnual report
「Labor costs have continued to rise as competition for talent has intensified and hiring has become more difficult.」
The company states that difficulties securing personnel and rising labor costs have continued in the operating environment for the food service industry.