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Due to the new coronavirus that occurred in early 2020 and the declaration of a state of emergency several times and priority measures such as preventing the spread, many restaurants have closed. has been hit hard.
From this background, food delivery has become popular, and according to NPD Japan, the market size is expected to grow from 418.3 billion yen in 2019 to 626.4 billion yen in 2020 and 797.5 billion yen in 2021. That's it.
Due to the situation where it is difficult to eat out, it is important as a business strategy to shift to "prepared meals" such as side dishes and boxed lunches, but orders overlap during the peak hours of lunch and dinner. is inevitable.
Under such circumstances, the frozen food vending machine "Doheimon" released by Sanden Retail System is attracting attention as a new style of food supply.
Doreimon seriesBy freely combining four types of shelves, Doreimon can sell products of different sizes, including large frozen foods, which were difficult to sell with conventional food vending machines. something like. In addition to being able to operate with a liquid crystal touch panel, it also supports cashless sales such as electronic money and QR code payment as an option.
Following the conventional “Doheimon”, “Doheimon NEO” (released in August 2021) that can switch between frozen and refrigerated, and “Doheimon SLIM”, which is thinner and has a new advertising space. ”(Released in December 2021) and the lineup has expanded one after another.
Maruyama Seimen's "Noodle Tours", where you can buy frozen ramen from famous stores all over the country, has 57 stores from Kanto to Kyushu and Okinawa, and Ringer Hut, a major restaurant chain, is also Champon. Vending machines that sell frozen foods such as yasara udon, dumplings, and fried rice are installed in stores.
Kenmin Foods' "Frozen Rice Noodles Vending Machine" (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture), Asakusa Ham's vending machine (Taito Ward, Tokyo) where you can buy sausages, grilled pork, etc., beef rice ingredients, curry, and beef rice burgers. It is spread all over the country, such as the Matsuya Foods vending machine (Koto-ku, Tokyo) that sells such as.
Matsuya Foods sells gyumeshi ingredients, curry, gyumeshi burgers, etc. as frozen foods. Here's what he says about sales:"We haven't announced the number of units sold, but sales are so strong that even if we set a goal, it will soon be repainted.It matched the needs of the corona disaster, which was not anticipated at all when the project started in March 2019. We are currently developing three models, but we are developing new models one after another to meet the needs of retailers, such as those who want this kind of function or want a thinner model.”
Mr. Takeo Onuma, General Manager of New Product Development Department (current General Manager of General Affairs Department) at Sanden Retail Systems