The hugely popular restaurant chain operated by Duskin throughout Japan is Mister Donut. Its founder encountered the brand locally and reportedly decided to bring it to Japan after recognizing their shared commitment to hospitality.
Duskin is known as a company that provides household and office mops, mats and other products, but it also operates the hugely popular Mister Donut restaurant chain throughout Japan. The article presents this fact in quiz format.
When founder Seiichi Suzuki (鈴木清一) visited a Mister Donut store in the United States, he was deeply impressed not only by the taste of the doughnuts but also by the brand's thorough commitment to hospitality, and reportedly immediately decided to develop the business in Japan. The two brands were said to share the objective of “providing services that make people smile.”
Based on this common foundation, Duskin decided to combine its cleaning-related businesses, including mops, with a doughnut chain, two businesses from different industries, and develop them in the Japanese market. The article presents this history as background.