Securing and training personnel to support store expansion
First written in FY2016. 16 of 30 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-10-30.
Hachi-Ban moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2022, 2 years before the typical company in this theme (2024).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 8 of 26 companies on the "Worse" side.
25 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2026MaterialisedAnnual report
「This was mainly due to increases of ¥185 million in salaries and allowances and ¥37 million in depreciation and amortization.」
Increases in labor and other costs led to a ¥259 million decline in operating profit, demonstrating the impact on results of personnel costs supporting restaurant operations. - FY2026-H1WorsenedAnnual report
「Operating profit fell well below the year-earlier period to ¥70 million, down 73.9% year on year, due to higher labor costs, although」
Higher labor costs materialized as a 73.9% year-on-year decline in operating profit. - FY2025WorsenedAnnual report
「Part-time workers account for a large proportion of the Group's employees. The Group's operating results could be affected by increased labor costs, including social insurance premiums, due to higher minimum wages and expanded social insurance coverage, or by increased staffing requirements to offset constraints on working hours.」
Specifies the proportion of part-time workers, higher minimum wages, expanded social insurance coverage and staffing requirements arising from restrictions on working hours as specific factors affecting personnel risk. - FY2025-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the food-service industry, sales remain solid due to the recovery in human mobility and growth in inbound demand resulting from the weaker yen, but the difficult operating environment continues due to higher raw-material prices, logistics costs and utility expenses, as well as rising labor and recruitment costs associated with wage increases and efforts to address labor shortages.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, with solid sales from the recovery in human mobility offset by higher labor and recruitment costs associated with wage increases and efforts to address labor shortages. - FY2024RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry to which the Group belongs faces difficult conditions, including market contraction due to population decline and the declining birthrate and aging population, labor shortages and soaring raw-material and energy costs, and competition among companies is expected to intensify further.」
Continues to identify labor shortages as a business-environment risk alongside market contraction and soaring raw-material and energy costs. - FY2024-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the food-service industry, customer traffic is recovering as restrictions on activity have subsided, but the difficult operating environment continues due to higher utility, logistics and procurement costs, as well as higher labor and recruitment costs resulting from labor shortages.」
States that, despite recovering customer traffic, higher labor and recruitment costs due to labor shortages are contributing to the difficult operating environment. - FY2023WorsenedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry to which the Group belongs faces a difficult environment, including market contraction due to population decline and the declining birthrate and aging population, lost sales opportunities due to labor shortages, changes in usage occasions resulting from the spread of COVID-19, and soaring raw material and energy costs. Competition among companies is expected to intensify further.」
Explicitly identifies labor shortages not only as a cause of higher labor costs but also as a factor leading to lost sales opportunities. - FY2023-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the food-service business, sales have shown signs of recovery since the lifting of the priority preventive measures against the spread of disease, while the Group revised product prices in response to higher raw-material, fuel and labor costs.」
States that higher labor and other costs have translated into actual increases in operating costs and led to product price revisions. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「The Group considers securing and developing supervisors and personnel responsible for restaurant operations particularly important. It is actively engaged in recruitment activities and is working to enhance employee education through on-the-job training after hiring and training programs, as well as to develop its personnel.」
Identifies supervisors and restaurant operations personnel as human resources supporting restaurant expansion, and continues to address this through recruitment, OJT and training. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is actively engaged in recruitment activities and is working to enhance employee education through on-the-job training after hiring and training programs, as well as to develop its personnel. However, if securing and developing personnel fails to progress as planned, it may be unable to maintain service quality at its restaurants or expand its network as planned, which could affect the Group's operating results.」
Describes measures involving recruitment, OJT and training, while continuing to identify the risk that securing and developing personnel may not progress as planned. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry remains in a difficult business environment. In addition to soaring raw material prices and rising personnel-related costs against a backdrop of work-style reforms and labor shortages, the consumption tax increase and reduced tax rate system introduced in October this year are expected to reduce dining-out occasions because eating out is perceived as relatively expensive compared with the lower prices of prepared meals.」
Continues to describe a difficult business environment for personnel, including higher labor-related costs arising from work-style reforms and labor shortages. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry remains in a difficult business environment, owing to soaring raw material prices, rising personnel-related costs against a backdrop of work-style reforms and labor shortages, and the growth of the prepared-meals market.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, including higher labor-related costs arising from work-style reforms and labor shortages. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is actively engaged in recruitment activities and is working to enhance employee education through on-the-job training after hiring and training programs, as well as to develop its personnel.」
Continues to recognize that securing and developing personnel is a risk affecting restaurant expansion and service quality, and to address it through recruitment, OJT and training. - FY2019-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry is facing an increasingly uncertain environment, as extreme heat and typhoons have made it difficult to procure raw materials reliably, while raw material prices and logistics costs are rising and personnel-related costs are increasing against a backdrop of work-style reforms and labor shortages.」
States that continued increases in labor-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and work-style reforms have made the already difficult business environment for personnel even more uncertain. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry remains in a difficult environment, with raw-material prices, logistics costs and labor-related costs continuing to rise against a backdrop of work-style reforms and labor shortages.」
Continues to describe a difficult business environment for personnel, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages. - FY2019-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry remains in a difficult environment, as strong consumer thrift continues, while labor-related costs and other expenses continue to rise against a backdrop of higher raw-material prices and labor shortages.」
Continues to describe a difficult business environment for personnel, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages. - FY2018WorsenedAnnual report
「A large proportion of the Group's restaurant employees are part-time workers. Labor costs, including social insurance premiums, could increase as mandatory social insurance coverage is expanded and labor-related laws and regulations are amended. If securing and developing personnel fails to keep pace with the Group's restaurant-opening plans, it may be unable to maintain service quality at its restaurants or expand its network as planned, which could affect the Group's operating results.」
Explicitly identifies the expansion of mandatory social insurance coverage and amendments to labor-related laws and regulations, in addition to personnel recruitment and development, as risks that could increase labor costs. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry remains in a difficult environment, owing to unfavorable summer weather, rising raw material prices and increases in personnel-related costs and logistics costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and improving employment conditions.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, including higher labor costs arising from labor shortages and improvements in the employment environment. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry remains in a difficult environment, owing to unfavorable summer weather, rising raw material prices and increases in personnel-related costs against a backdrop of labor shortages and improving employment conditions.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages and improvements in the employment environment. - FY2018-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry also remains in a difficult environment. Competition between stores within and outside the industry is becoming increasingly intense, while raw material prices and personnel-related costs continue to rise against a backdrop of labor shortages and improving employment conditions.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages. - FY2017WorsenedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry also remains in a difficult environment, as consumers continue to be strongly inclined to save, competition between stores within and outside the industry is becoming increasingly intense, raw material prices are rising, and personnel-related costs continue to increase against a backdrop of labor shortages and improving employment conditions.」
Describes a difficult environment in which labor shortages are linked to higher labor-related costs and competition among restaurants, broadening the personnel risk to include costs and competition. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The foodservice industry also remains in a difficult environment, as consumers continue to be strongly inclined to save, personnel-related costs are rising against a backdrop of labor shortages, and competition continues not only within the industry but also with companies in other industries.」
Continues to describe a difficult personnel environment, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages. - FY2017-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The food-service industry also remains in a difficult environment, as consumers continue to be strongly inclined to economize, labor-related costs rise against a backdrop of labor shortages, and competition from businesses in other industries, such as convenience stores, continues.」
Continues to describe a difficult business environment, including higher labor-related costs arising from labor shortages. - FY2017-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「The food-service industry also remains in a difficult environment, as consumers continue to be strongly inclined to economize, labor-related costs rise against a backdrop of labor shortages, and competition from businesses in other industries, such as convenience stores, continues.」
States that labor shortages are increasing labor-related costs, specifying the impact of personnel shortages in terms of costs. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「However, if securing and developing personnel fails to keep pace with the Group's restaurant-opening plans, it may be unable to maintain service quality at its restaurants or expand its network as planned, which could affect the Group's operating results.」
Identifies the risk that securing and developing personnel may fail to keep pace with restaurant-opening plans and service-quality requirements.