【Unstoppable Food Price Hikes and Soaring Packaging Material Costs】A New Standard: "Real-time Profit Management" for Restaurants Achieved with BI Tools

In addition to continuous food price increases, a 30% hike in packaging material costs, driven by soaring crude oil and naphtha prices, is putting unprecedented pressure on restaurant management (Source: FNN Prime Online "Naphtha" price surge causes cries from supermarkets, 30% increase in packaging material costs). The sales-first management approach, where "as long as customers are coming in, we're fine," has reached its limit. We have entered a phase where even a 1-yen fluctuation in material costs or a 1-gram change in ingredient costs can determine the success or failure of a business. Sky Dining Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hiroaki Kataoka) proposes "Real-time Profit Management" through BI (Business Intelligence) functions that go beyond the scope of POS registers, as a solution for this era of rising prices. By instantly synchronizing purchasing management and sales data, and grasping profits down to the yen, we help restaurants escape "rough accounting" and transform into a management structure that reliably secures profits.

【Challenges for Restaurants】

As reported recently, significant price increases for plastic containers and vinyl bags due to soaring naphtha prices are a severe blow, especially to modern restaurants with high takeout demand. Traditional general-purpose POS systems and analog management methods cannot address the following critical challenges:

Missing "hidden costs": Not reflecting increased costs of packaging materials and consumables (which have risen by 30%) in menu prices, leading to "bleeding profits" where the more they sell, the more profit is eroded, going unnoticed.

Delayed management decisions: Traditional methods, waiting for month-end inventory or trial balances from tax accountants, result in delayed countermeasures such as menu revisions or portion adjustments in response to sudden fluctuations in purchase prices.

Uncontrollable variable costs: Inability to perform real-time "ABC analysis" to identify which menu items are profitable and which are causing losses, leading to continued management based on intuition.

【Solution with One-Regi】

One-Regi is not just an accounting machine; it functions as an advanced analytical tool to maximize restaurant "profits."

Purchase-linked BI tool (profit visualization): By inputting purchase data, it calculates "theoretical profit" in real-time by deducting costs from daily sales. It instantly visualizes, through graphs and figures, how fluctuations in material prices affect profits.

1-yen unit cost management and ABC analysis: Allows registration of costs down to 1 gram of ingredient and 1 sheet of material. Through ABC analysis that evaluates menu items based on their "contribution to profit" rather than just sales volume, it enables strategic identification of low-profit menu items that heavily use expensive materials and pushes high-profit menu items.

Product-specific and time-specific profit/loss dashboard: Complex aggregation work is unnecessary. Simply by ringing up sales, the "gross profit" at that moment is visualized. Even against the headwind of a 30% increase in packaging material costs, data-driven decisions on appropriate pricing and cost-cutting can be made.

【Benefits for Restaurants】

Rising prices are not a temporary phenomenon but have become an unavoidable "premise of management" for restaurants. By introducing One-Regi, the front lines can achieve "data-driven management," realizing robust store operations that reliably secure profits even in uncertain situations. Data-backed insights enable appropriate price pass-through and waste reduction, paving the way for maintaining staff employment and further store expansion.

【About One-Regi】

Introduced in over 2,000 stores nationwide, with a continuation rate of 98.3%. It is a POS register specialized for restaurants, born from over 20 years of restaurant management know-how, equipped with everything the field truly "wants."

【Sky Dining Co., Ltd. Company Overview】

Company Name: Sky Dining Co., Ltd.

Representative: Hiroaki Kataoka, Representative Director

Location: 5F, 2-1-6 Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo

Business Activities: Development, sales, and support of "One-Regi," a POS register exclusively for restaurants.

Official Website: https://one-regi.com/

【Contact for this service】

Sky Dining Co., Ltd. Contact Window

URL: https://one-regi.com/introduction/contact/

【Contact for press releases】

Sky Dining Co., Ltd. Public Relations

pr@sky-dining.co.jp