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Addressing Labor Shortages in the Restaurant Sector

In today's fast-paced restaurant industry, labor shortages have become a critical challenge that requires urgent attention. To tackle this issue effectively, Lamp Co., based in Kyoto, Japan, is hosting a free online seminar titled "Don't Give Up on Sales Despite Labor Shortages: Effective Strategies for Zero Opportunity Loss and Increased Profit Margins" on December 3, 2025.

This webinar aims to provide practical solutions for restaurants and retail businesses looking to enhance their sales without relying heavily on advertising or promotions. Instead, it focuses on improving internal operations to minimize losses during peak hours, thus ensuring a steady increase in revenue.

The Importance of Internal Operations

Many restaurants often revert to advertising and promotions as their primary strategies for sales improvement. However, the potential for growth lies significantly in refining internal operations, which yield faster and more reliable results. In bustling times, such as the year-end holiday season, the following challenges become increasingly evident:

• - Missed Order Opportunities: Busy phone lines can lead to missed orders, affecting revenue.
• - End of Service Confusions: Sometimes, service is halted even if orders can still be accepted just to avoid chaos in the kitchen.
• - Upselling Losses: Opportunities to upsell are often lost when staff cannot provide complete information over the phone.
• - Food Waste from Cancellations: Cancellations lead to unnecessary food waste, impacting both revenue and sustainability.

Seminar Highlights

This upcoming seminar aims to dissect these issues to a manageable level and introduce effective countermeasures, demonstrated through actual operational screens. Attendees will have the opportunity to:

• - Automatically Reduce Phone Losses: Strategies to manage orders during peak times without missing calls.
• - Prevent Cutoff Losses: Techniques to mitigate losses incurred by early closing of order-taking, especially when using paper logs or Excel.
• - Increase Average Customer Spend: Insights into using web options to elevate customer spending without being intrusive.
• - Almost Eliminate Cancellations: Implementing "Pre-Payment x SMS Payment" methods to drastically reduce cancellations.
• - Interactive Practical Demonstrations: A session structure designed to help participants visualize operations using demonstration screens.

This free online seminar welcomes anyone interested in enhancing their restaurant's operational efficiency and maximizing profits.

About TakeEats

TakeEats is a powerful order management system provided by Lamp Co. It allows food retail establishments, such as those selling bento and sweets, to customize their order sites to better serve their unique needs. This platform facilitates quick online reservations and payments, empowering restaurants to shift from analog management systems, like paper and fax, to a digital framework.

Customers also benefit from an enhanced purchase experience, as they can place orders from their smartphones 24/7, ensuring minimal waiting time for product pickup. Since the launch of TakeEats, over 3,000 locations across Japan have adopted the service, with cumulative orders exceeding one million (as of October 2025).

TakeEats has been highly praised for effectively meeting the unique operational needs of takeout services, while maintaining the brand image of the restaurants involved. Additionally, partnerships with department stores and commercial facilities have broadened the applications for the service.

About Lamp Co.

Founded in February 2017, Lamp Co. has continuously advanced its mission to "Illuminate Local Communities through Digital Technologies." Based in Kyoto, the company has supported over 150 businesses in their web marketing efforts. The introduction of TakeEats during the COVID-19 pandemic signified the company's commitment to contributing to local communities through the food sector.

For more details about Lamp Co., visit their official website. You can also find the seminar registration link on their site to participate in this informative session on sales enhancement strategies.

Company Information

• - Name: Lamp Co.
• - Location: Kyoto, Japan
• - CEO: Takumi Kawano
• - Year Established: 2017
• - Capital: 9.6 billion yen (including capital reserves)
• - Main Business: Development and sales of TakeEats, a takeout reservation and management system.