The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released its top 50 rankings for restaurant sales in Kyushu and Okinawa in FY2012. Total sales of the top 50 companies increased 5.7% year-on-year to \u00a5454 billion, and Fukuoka-based Plenus, the operator of the Hotto Motto boxed lunch chain, kept its perch at number one for the 10th year in a row. Other top 10 companies include Kitakyushu\u2019s Toyo Shokuhin, operator of the Ajidokoro Hanasaki restaurant chain (4th), and Kumamoto\u2019s Bento no Hirai (7th). Twelve of the 50 companies specialize in home-meal replacement, and their total sales increased 10.9% year-on-year. The employee in charge of the survey speculates that \u201can increase in single people and the ageing of the population have increased the demand for home-meal replacement\u201d. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, 11\/26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Fukuoka branch of Teikoku Databank released its top 50 rankings for restaurant sales in Kyushu and Okinawa in FY2012. Total sales of the top 50 companies increased 5.7% year-on-year to \u00a5454 billion, and Fukuoka-based Plenus, the operator of the Hotto Motto boxed lunch chain, kept its perch at number one for the 10th year in a row. Other top 10 companies include Kitakyushu\u2019s Toyo Shokuhin, operator of the Ajidokoro Hanasaki restaurant chain (4th), and Kumamoto\u2019s Bento no Hirai (7th). Twelve of the 50 companies specialize in home-meal replacement, and their total sales increased 10.9% year-on-year. The employee in charge of the survey speculates that \u201can increase in single people and the ageing of the population have increased the demand for home-meal replacement\u201d. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun, 11\/26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81494","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}