This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Restaurants companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Restaurants industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Japanese Restaurants Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
TakeMe Co., Ltd.
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TakeMe offers an “All-in-One” payment platform for our pre- and post- pay value added services for merchants to digitally transform quickly
Retty
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Retty is a social gourmet site where users can write reviews about restaurants and diners.
GINKAN
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A Tokyo based startup focused on mobile app development & management. Runs SynchroLife, the app loved by eaters!
TableCheck
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TableCheck is a world-class reservation platform that centralizes reservations from third-party reservation sites.
Toreta
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Toreta develops tools specializing in reservation and customer ledger systems for restaurants.
Pocket Concierge
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Pocket Concierge is an online reservation and payment service for selected restaurants.
Saint Marc
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Saint Marc manages restaurants and cafe businesses through its subsidiaries and associated companies.
Hachimenroppi
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Hachimenroppi provides a fish delivery service for restaurants.
KitchHike
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KitchHike is an online service that connects cooks and hikers in kitchens all over the world.
NOT A HOTEL
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NOT A HOTEL is an in-house hotel brand developement company.
EBILAB
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EBILAB provides sales data analysis and data visualization system for restaurants.
Spice Code
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Spice Code enables digital transformation in the food production and supply network industry through central kitchen services.
BrightTable
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BrightTable provides an app that is developed to automate table reservation process.
Shikomel
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Shikomel is an app service for restaurants that enables preparation of food provided at the store.
Aplaca.Lab
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Aplaca.Lab is a platform that matches restaurants and business owners to driving agencies.
United & Collective
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United & Collective is a Restaurant management company.
G-Factory
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G-Factory provides administrative support services for restaurants.
GURUNAVI
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Gurunavi provides an online platform that enables users to find restaurants in Japan.
umami.me
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The restaurant mobile app for foreign visitors under the same name
Ghost Kitchens
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Ghost Kitchens is a restaurant that provides online food delivery services.
Skylark
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Skylark is a Japanese casual dining restaurant chains.
CLOUD FRANCHISE
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CLOUD FRANCHISE is a cloud kitchen model that aims to maximize the kitchen occupancy rate of restaurants.
Cookpy
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Cookpy allows anyone to open their own restaurant from a single day.
Pizza Hut Japan
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Pizza Hut Japan is a privately held company owns and operates pizza restaurants.
Zensho Holdings
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Zensho Holdings is a Japanese company which owns several chains of restaurants.
CRISP SALAD WORKS
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CRISP SALAD WORKS is Tokyo-based fast casual restaurant chain.
GENDA SEGA Entertainment
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GENDA SEGA Entertainment engages in the planning and operation of amusement and restaurant facilities.
GYRO HOLDINGS
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GYRO HOLDINGS is a food innovation company that specializes in the business development of hotels and restaurants.
Ikyu Corp.
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Ikyu Corporation is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the provision of reservation services for hotels and restaurants.
Ikyu
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Ikyu is an online travel and restaurant reservation platform in Japan
Sazaby League
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Sazaby League is an online store that sells clothing, apparel goods, beauty accessories, household goods, food and restaurant products.
Coca-Cola West
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Coca-Cola West produces, processes, and sells soft drinks in Japan.
OPENSAUCE
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Opensauce is a company to create a future where all people can eat healthy, delicious, and enjoyable food.
Sushiro Global Holdings
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Sushiro Global Holdings operates as a sushi restaurant management.
Monteroza
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Monteroza operates entertainment facilities such as night clubs, restaurants, cafe shops, and nail salons.
Marche
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Marche engages in the food and beverages business.
RIDE ON EXPRESS HOLDINGS Japan
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Finedyne is a restaurant delivery service that delivers freshly cooked local restaurant food to your home or office.
Pepper Lunch
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Pepper Lunch which serves sizzling platters of meat-based dishes with sauces.
Naciel Holdings
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Naciel Holdings engages in the development of comprehensive support services for restaurants, retailers, and service industries.
Yoshinoya
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Yoshinoya operates a fast food restaurant chain.
ROI Japan
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ROI is a an Operation of a cover survey service “Fan Kuru” specialized for restaurants
Kachiri
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Empower restaurants to focus on personal customer service through offering self-order kiosk, mobile orders, payments, and CRM programs.
Wendy’s Japan LLC
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Wendy’s Japan is the real choice in fast food.
Jc Comsa Corporation
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JC Comsa Corporation is a food & beverage firm that manufactures, processes & sells healthy food products & offers restaurant business.
Sprout Investment
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Sprout Investment is a Live fish and fresh fish wholesale business.
McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd.
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McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd. engaged in the operation of hamburger restaurants.
Porme
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Porme is a group of restaurant brands from Shibuya, Tokyo, that provide meals to make people’s lives healthier.
TKG
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TKG is a wholesale trading company for kitchens, hotels and restaurants.
Torikizoku
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Torikizoku is a food and beverages company offers grilled chicken skewers.
Akindo Sushiro
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Akindo Sushiro is operates sushi restaurants in Japan.
Toridoll
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Toridoll operates and manages of restaurant businesses.
redish
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redish is the most convenient and rewarding restaurant reservation.
Guruyaku Co., Ltd.
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Guruyaku Co., Ltd. is an online registration platform that provide a service that allows you to reserve online overseas restaurants.
SubLime
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SubLime is restaurant management and restaurant consulting business.