Labor Shortages and Rising Labor Costs
First written in FY2016. 19 of 29 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2026.
KAPPA・CREATE CO.,LTD. moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2021, 2 years after the typical company in this theme (2019).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2022: 48 of 57 companies on the "Worse" side.
26 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, signs of recovery were seen due to increased inbound demand and recovering consumer sentiment, but the operating environment remains challenging as raw material and energy prices remain high, consumers' preference for economizing has strengthened amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, and labor costs continue to rise due to labor shortages.」
It continues to cite rising labor costs caused by labor shortages, together with persistently high raw material and energy prices and consumers' preference for economizing. - 2026-05-08MaterialisedOccurring Fact
「利益面につきましても、店舗オペレーションの改善や各種コストの最適化に取組んでまいりましたが、売上高が計画を下回ったこと及び原材料・エネルギー価格の高止まりや人件費の高騰などもあり、営業利益・経常利益ともに前回発表予想を下回る実績となりました。」
人件費の高騰が営業利益・経常利益の予想未達要因として明示された。 - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Soaring raw material and energy prices and cost increases caused by labor shortages continue, and the operating environment remains challenging.」
It indicated that cost increases caused by labor shortages continue alongside soaring raw material and energy prices. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the economy is on a recovery trend as inbound spending expands and consumer trends improve, but a challenging operating environment continues as soaring raw material and energy prices and cost increases caused by labor shortages persist.」
It stated that cost increases caused by labor shortages continue alongside soaring raw material and energy prices. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, although inbound spending is expanding, a challenging operating environment continues as soaring raw material, utility and logistics costs and cost increases caused by labor shortages persist.」
It indicated that cost increases caused by labor shortages and increases in raw material, utility and logistics costs are continuing. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, although inbound demand is showing signs of recovery, cost increases including soaring raw material, utility, logistics and labor costs continue, resulting in a challenging operating environment.」
It continues to hold the previously stated view that raw material, utility, logistics and labor costs are rising, creating a challenging cost environment. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The industry continues to face a challenging operating environment due to soaring raw material prices and increases in utility, logistics and labor costs.」
It continues to describe pressure on personnel and costs, including rising labor costs, together with increases in raw material, utility and logistics costs. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「The industry continues to face a challenging operating environment due to soaring raw material prices and increases in utility, logistics and labor costs.」
Pressure on personnel and costs, including rising labor costs, continues alongside increases in raw material, utility and logistics costs. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The industry continues to face a challenging operating environment due to soaring raw material prices and increases in utility, logistics and labor costs.」
It continues to describe pressure on personnel and costs, including rising labor costs, together with increases in raw material, utility and logistics costs. - FY2023-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Concerns about cost increases, including soaring raw material prices, logistics costs and labor costs, have become apparent.」
It stated that risks relating to personnel and costs, including labor shortages and rising labor costs, have materialized in the form of soaring labor costs. - FY2022ReframedAnnual report
「In addition, a challenging operating environment continues as soaring raw material prices and logistics costs, cost increases caused by labor shortages, and competition with alternatives such as prepared meals have intensified further.」
It again explicitly identified the conventional pressure on personnel and costs from cost increases caused by labor shortages, rather than the deterioration in employment conditions and preference for economizing emphasized in the previous fiscal year. - FY2021-Q3ReframedAnnual report
「Concern about COVID-19, which had temporarily receded, flared up again in late November. The economy then rapidly stagnated toward year-end amid the review of the Go To Campaign, calls for restaurants to further shorten their operating hours, and an increasingly strong preference for economizing due to worsening employment conditions.」
Unlike the previously cited labor shortages and rising labor costs, it continued to describe an employment and consumption environment in which employment conditions deteriorated and consumers increasingly preferred to economize during the spread of the infection. - FY2021-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「As a result, the employment situation shifted from a serious labor shortage to an excess supply of labor.」
The description changed from the previously cited labor shortage and rising labor costs to the employment situation having shifted to a surplus of labor after the spread of the infection. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, a challenging operating environment continues due to increases in labor and logistics costs resulting from labor shortages, soaring food ingredient prices, increasingly diverse consumer needs, heightened awareness of value for money and the consumption tax increase.」
It continues to identify increases in labor and logistics costs resulting from labor shortages as challenges in the operating environment, together with soaring food ingredient prices and increasingly diverse consumer needs. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry continues to face a challenging operating environment due to rising labor and logistics costs, soaring food ingredient prices, increasingly diverse consumer needs, and consumers’ growing focus on value for money.」
It continues to identify rising labor and logistics costs and soaring food ingredient prices, together with increasingly diverse consumer needs and heightened awareness of value for money, as factors contributing to the challenging food service environment. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, a challenging operating environment continues due to rising labor and logistics costs, soaring food ingredient prices, increasingly diverse consumer needs and a persistent preference for economizing.」
It continues to describe pressure on personnel and costs, including rising labor and logistics costs and labor shortages, together with soaring food ingredient prices and other factors. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, we continue to be affected by increases in labor and logistics costs resulting from labor shortages and soaring food ingredient prices.」
It continues to identify increases in labor and logistics costs resulting from labor shortages as challenges in the operating environment for the food service industry. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the challenging environment continued due to soaring labor and distribution costs and ingredient prices, increasingly diverse consumer needs, a growing tendency to distinguish clearly between discretionary spending depending on whether products and services are considered worthwhile, and intensifying competition with businesses in other industries such as convenience stores and food delivery services.」
It continues to describe a challenging environment in the food service industry, including soaring labor costs and pressure on personnel and costs. - FY2019-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「During the six-month period ended in the second quarter, Japan's economy saw production and exports slow due mainly to trade friction between the United States and China, geopolitical risks in the Middle East, soaring crude oil prices, severe labor shortages and a series of natural disasters, although」
It described severe labor shortages and increases in labor and logistics costs as factors contributing to the challenging environment in the food service industry, indicating broader pressure on personnel and costs than before. - FY2019-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the challenging operating environment continued due to increasingly diverse consumer needs, a tendency to select and economize, rising labor and distribution costs, soaring ingredient prices, intensifying competition with businesses in other industries such as convenience stores and food delivery services, and earlier returns home to watch the FIFA World Cup matches.」
It explicitly cited higher logistics costs in addition to rising labor costs, providing a broader description than before of the operating environment in terms of personnel and costs. - FY2018RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become even more challenging due to soaring food ingredient prices, intensified competition to secure personnel, growing social concern about food safety and security, and consumers' preference for economizing.」
It continues to describe an environment involving competition to secure personnel and labor shortages leading to higher labor costs, together with food ingredient prices and consumers' preference for economizing. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become even more challenging due to soaring food ingredient prices, intensified competition to secure personnel, growing social concern about food safety and security, and the impact of consumers' preference for economizing.」
The Company continues to cite ingredient prices, competition to secure personnel, concern about food safety and security, and consumers' focus on saving money as factors contributing to the challenging operating environment. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become increasingly challenging due to soaring ingredient prices, intensifying competition to secure personnel, rising social concern about food safety and security, and the impact of consumers' focus on saving money.」
It continues to describe a challenging operating environment, including intensified competition to secure personnel and labor shortages leading to higher labor costs. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become increasingly challenging due to soaring ingredient prices, intensifying competition to secure personnel, rising social concern about food safety and security, and the impact of consumers' focus on saving money.」
It continues to describe a challenging environment, including intensified competition to secure personnel and labor shortages leading to higher labor costs. - FY2017WorsenedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become increasingly challenging due to soaring ingredient prices, intensifying competition to secure personnel, rising social concern about food safety and security, and the impact of consumers' focus on saving money.」
It expanded the description from the previously cited rise in labor costs associated with labor shortages to intensified competition to secure personnel, and also cited soaring food ingredient prices. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, the operating environment has become even more challenging as consumers' preference for economizing has strengthened further and rising labor costs associated with labor shortages have added to the pressure.」
It continues to describe a challenging operating environment due to consumers' preference for economizing, labor shortages and rising labor costs. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, consumers have become increasingly focused on saving money, while rising labor costs due to labor shortages have added to the increasingly challenging operating environment.」
It continues to identify rising labor costs associated with labor shortages as a challenge in the operating environment. - FY2017-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food service industry, consumers have become increasingly focused on saving money, while rising labor costs due to labor shortages have added to the increasingly challenging operating environment.」
It continues to identify rising labor costs associated with labor shortages as a challenge in the operating environment. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「The operating environment has become even more challenging as rising raw material prices and higher labor costs associated with labor shortages have added to the pressure.」
It described rising labor costs associated with labor shortages as a challenge in the operating environment for the food service industry, and identified labor-hours control as a measure.