Dining Innovation Investment Inc.
CMO
Dining Innovation Ltd
CEO
Board Member
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Hidetake MatsumiyaDining Innovation Investment Inc.
CMODining Innovation Ltd
CEOHidetake Matsumiya
Career
He met Nishiyama at Reins International, Co.Ltd. in 1999 after resigning as a patissier, a job that he had since high school graduation. He was hired as a manager at Gyukaku when the company was not well known and gained experienced in multiple roles including the organization of the franchise headquarters where he defined roles such as functions trainer, product development, procurement and logistics, marketing and human resources. Through his work as the leader of new business development, Doma Doma became a hit and he was appointed a board director in 2002 after only 2 years of being a manager. After that, Doma Doma opened 100 restaurants in 2 years and 4 months. This innovative strategy surprised the Izakaya Industry. After that, he strengthened customer service and product competitiveness by focusing on internal reform that emphasized the customer's point of view and human resource development. He returned to Reins International Co.Ltd. as a senior managing director in 2007 during the MBO, and he grew the Shabu Shabu Onyasuai business to 300 restaurants while in charge of the marketing section, despite a very difficult business environment brought on by BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. After founder Nishiyama retired, Matsumiya was appointed CEO at Reins international, Co.Ltd in 2012. He increased growth of Rains International, Co.Ltd. after the loss of a charismatic manager by leading the 1200 stores of the organization with the company's management philosophy. He was appointed CEO of Dinning Innovation Ltd. in 2016 with the ambition of making dining out in Japan a richer experience by giving following generations his knowledge and experience obtained through facing numerous challenges. This will lead to the creation of great managers and creating value around eating out together in line with Nishiyama's legacy.
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Dining Innovation Investment Inc. CIOTakuro InoueDining Innovation Investment Inc.
CIOTakuro Inoue
Career
He entered the management planning department of REX Holdings Co. Ltd. in 2006, and engaged in the business as a finance manager of the MBO. After completing the MBO, he engaged in revitalizing the business as CFO, owing a 1,000million JPY MBO loan. He engaged mainly in business planning for the whole group including Management, Achievement, Fund management index design, Operating system construction,Tax consolidation and Financial statement audit. In addition, he was also engaged in M&A activity while improving returns for shareholders and financial institutions. He was involved in the design of tax benefits and maximized the value of closed sales when the group transfered am/pm Japan in 2009 and transfered the stock of Seijyo Sihii Co.Ltd.in 2011. He entered a new stage by joining Dinning Innovation Ltd., after resigning from Reins International Co.Ltd. after it completed the payment of the MBO loan after completing the stock transfer in 2012.
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Dining Innovation Investment Inc. CAO
Dining Innovation Ltd DirectorAtsuhiko FukuzumiDining Innovation Investment Inc.
CAODining Innovation Ltd
DirectorAtsuhiko Fukuzumi
Career
He entered the management department of Tempo Innovation Co. Ltd. (REX Holdings Co.Ltd.) in 2006. He was responsible for the company's legal affairs including contract system construction for the Sales & Lease Back scheme in the tenant leasing business. He was transffered to the legal department at REX Holdings Co. Ltd.when the company was sold by M&A in 2008. At REX Holdings Co. Ltd. he was engaged in legal affairs for the whole group for FC, real estate, organizational restructuring, intellectual property, corporate law, government correspondence, etc. and charged with developing the contract of the transaction for the transfers of am/pm Japan and Seijyo Ishii Co.Lltd. He was also in charge Human Resources for the other Group as the company's executive officer, he closed the transfer of the stock of REX Coldings, Co. Ltd.in 2012 and partcipated in Dining Innovation Ltd. after PMI duties.
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Dining Innovation Ltd
DirectorNaoya Takahashi(JP)Dining Innovation Ltd
Director高橋尚也
経歴
高校、大学、実業団と27歳までアメリカンフットボールで日本一を目指しながらチームワークなどを学んだ後、他の業界も経験するが外食事業を生涯の仕事にしようと決意し2004年、株式会社レインズインターナショナルに入社。2007年に牛角SV部 部長に就任してから西山より直接、外食への想いやマネジメントの手法を学び2008年には、社内の年間表彰式において、トップオブレインズパーソン（年間最優秀マネジメント賞）を受賞する。その後2010年、牛角事業本部 本部長に就任、2013年には執行役員に就任し、国内の全業態全店舗（牛角、温野菜、土間土間、かまどか、ぶっちぎり）の店舗運営責任者となり、2014年に取締役に就任、そして2017年には代表取締役 副社長に就任する。 途中、株式会社レインズインターナショナルの代表取締役 副社長に就きながらグループ会社である株式会社コロワイドMD 代表取締役 社長、株式会社ダブリューピィージャパン代表取締役 社長として3社の代表を兼務する期間も経て、2022年、新たな外食の価値を創り続ける西山の志に共感しダイニングイノベーションに参画。
Global Director
Asia Pacific
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Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd CEOEiji KamadaDining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd
CEOEiji Kamada
Career
He participated in the start-up of the Group company of Suntory Holdings Limited, Suntory F&B International (HK) Co., Ltd (SFBI) in 2003. He was appointed to General Manager, and engaged in the development of Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong. In 2004, he set up the Singapore corporation, SFBI （Asia-Pacific) Pte Ltd, and became the Managing Director, developing composite restaurants in Singapore and Shanghai. In 2006, He obtained the master franchise rights for "Pepper Lunch" in Asia, and established the Asia FC headquarters and engaged in the FC development and business operations. He spread Pepper Lunch to 190 restaurants in 26 cities in 11 countries in 8 years.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, China (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wuhan, Changchun), Macao, Vietnam and Cambodia. In 2015, He has joined Dining Innovation Group as CEO at Dining Innovation Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. -
PT. Inovasi Kuliner Indonesia CEO
Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd COOShinichiro MatsufujiPT. Inovasi Kuliner Indonesia
CEODining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd
COOShinichiro Matsufuji
Career
He joined Reins International, Co.,Ltd in 2005. As a Gyukaku franchise chief supervisor, he won the first place for 2 years in a row in the Partner’s Forum, the internal competition, when he was in charge of Gyukaku Nishikasai and Gyukaku Minami Koshigaya locations. After that, he was promoted to franchise manager and supervised 280 franchise locations. In 2011, he was transferred to the overseas department as he always wished, and was appointed as a general manager of the Taiwan Tokyo Gyukaku Co. Ltd. He was engaged in general management of directly managed restaurants in Taiwan and development of totally different and new business model for Gyukaku restaurants there. In 2014, he opened the first Kintan and the first Sumire in Indonesia Pacific Place. He was assigned an additional post as the Dinning Innovation Asia-Pacific COO in 2015. Currently he is engaged in supporting restaurants in Southeast Asia area and general management of Indonesian directly managed restaurants.
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Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd COO of East Asia Business Dining Innovation Taiwan Managing DirectorJin OkabeDining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd
COO of East Asia BusinessDining Innovation Taiwan
Managing DirectorJin Okabe
Career
In 2005, Jin Okabe joined the Human Resources Development Department of Reins International, Co.,Ltd. and created from scratch the FC Manager curriculum and managed the lectures. He also helped building the hiring, formation, labor and staff evaluation systems of the company. In 2013, after his transfer to the Foreign Business Department, he became Director of Tokyo Gyu-Kaku Co.,Ltd. negotiated Taiwan Gyu-Kaku franchises, opened the first On Yasai and Gyu-Kaku Jinan-Bou overseas, and opened more than 39 restaurants in Taiwan in 3 years. In 2017, as General Manager of Asia he worked out a franchise chain of Gyu-Kaku and On Yasai restaurants. He joined Dinning Innovation Ltd. in 2018 and became Managing Director of Taiwan and then of the whole West Asia market restaurants (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan). He’s also Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific COO of East Asia Business.
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PT. Inovasi Kuliner Indonesia DirectorDirham Karel
Europe & Americas
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Dining Innovation USA Inc CEOToshinori HayakawaDining Innovation USA Inc
CEOToshinori Hayakawa
Career
He was appointed as CEO of Rains International USA and opened the first Gyukaku in Hawaii in 2002. From 2003, he moved to the US and expanded their market. He spread out the mission of Japanese subsidiaries Rains International “creation of excitement” in the US, managed stores that focused on hospitality, and created an organization that has outstanding operations with continuous improvement. He introduced a Japan Gyukaku business model that does not rely on the existed restaurant model or a specific chef and reduced its kitchen size, cooking cost, waste loss(less than 1%), and wage and food expense. In addition, he made restaurants having over 20% EBITDA margin on average. In terms of marketing, Japanese style BBQ became a hit in Hawaii quickly, however in the mainland US, it was quite difficult since there were no habit of having indoor BBQ. Therefore, he changed naming to “Japanese BBQ” and adapted tastes and ways to cut of meat, and added variety of menus to match American's favorite tastes. After with their efforts, now when you ask Americans, “what are representative of Japanese foods?” You will get answers, “Sushi, Tempura, and Gyukaku”. During the impact of the financial crisis in 2008, he changed the main customer target from white collar workers and families to young people or students by dropping average unit price by $10 and launched targeted campaigns such as half off after 9pm. Soon after, Gyukaku became popular among young people and the rapid growth of US Gyukaku began. After that, he was awarded many times, and the store was often covered by Medias as a popular brand. In 2011, he held the first general meeting since we opened the first franchise restaurant with franchisee owners and employees for the purpose of building, sustaining and expanding a qualified franchise network. In this meeting he awarded performance of each store, shared KPIs and performance improvement policy. Also, he promoted US Gyukaku culture, cooperation, and healthy competition between franchisees. He increased the number of franchisees to 22 stores in 2016. (As of October of 2016, 20 directly managed restaurants and 22 and franchised restaurants) As a top management of Rains USA, he showed remarkable skills for 15 years. He successfully operated directly managed and franchise restaurants by strengthened unprecedented customer service standard that no other competitor can offer, lively restaurant atmosphere, foods with combination of healthy ingredients at reasonable price. 10 years after opening the restaurants, its sales of the existed restaurants kept increasing by 7.1% and the number of restaurants kept increasing by 32%. In 2006, all restaurants' total revenue was 10 billion JPY, and BITDA marked 1 billion JPY.
Awards:
In 2007, awarded as “hot concept” by Nation’s Restaurant News.
In 2011, nominated in a Restaurant Business Magazine “Future50”.
In 2013, nominated in “Top 500 US Restaurant” by Technomic.
In 2014, nominated in a Entrepreneur Magazine “Franchise 500"
In 2015, nominated in “Top 5 Fast Growing Full Service US Restaurant Chain” by Techomic -
Dining Innovation UK Ltd CEODennis ManeefuangfooDining Innovation UK Ltd
CEODennis Maneefuangfoo
Career
In 2003, Dennis Maneefuangfoo joined REINS International (USA) Co., Ltd. and became manager of Gyu-Kaku Beverly Hills. He created a new restaurant type in the US, the ”Japanese BBQ”, with a restaurant that many Hollywood celebrities as Mariah Carey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Megan Fox or David Beckham like to go to. In 2005, after opening the first Gyu-Kaku of the East Side in NYC, he started to expand the brand and the numbers of restaurants in the area. CEO of Dining Innovation UK Ltd. since January 2018, Dennis Maneefuangfoo is now helping promoting Japanese cuisine culture all over Europe with KINTAN and TSURUTONTAN.
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Dining Innovation NY Inc CEOJoji UematsuDining Innovation NY Inc
CEOJoji Uematsu
Career
In 2005, Joji Uematsu started managing "Gyu-Kaku”, the first “yakiniku” restaurant on the East Side and world biggest one with more than 200 sits on 5,700sq.ft. In 2010, he became the supervisor of the "Gyu-Kaku" East Side franchise and expanded the brand all over the region. In 2015, after his transfer to DINING INNOVATION USA INC he created the first ”TSURUTONTAN” on the East Side : “TSURUTONTAN NY UNION SQUARE”. He was then introduced by many publications, like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, as “the Udon Pioneer”. In April 2014, Joji Uematsu became CEO of DINING INNOVATION NEW YORK INC and have been expanding business on the East Side since then.
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Dining Innovation HAWAII Inc CEOTakuma LathropDining Innovation HAWAII Inc
CEOTakuma Lathrop
Career
In 2003, Takuma Lathrop joined REINS International (USA) Co., Ltd. in Hawaii and became manager of Gyu-Kaku Hawaii Kapiolani at the age of 19. In 2005, he was the youngest supervisor and, after being promoted to junior director in 2010, started managing several restaurants in Hawaii. His restaurants won many awards in Hawaii such as the Ilima Awards and the HALE'AINA AWARDS. He created the most famous restaurant chain in Hawaii and, in August 2017, became CEO of DINING INNOVATION HAWAII, INC. Takuma Lathrop is currently expanding the ”TSURUTONTAN” brand in Hawaii and on the West Side.
Management Team
& Japanese team residing oversea
Operation
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Belinda Heng(JP)FC本部 シニアマネージャー
ベリンダ ヘン
経歴
2020年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィックFC本部 シニアマネージャー
2016～2018年 BAKE SG SC PTE LTD (BAKE Works, Inc)
2013年 ダイニングイノベーション シンガポール
2009～2012年 Reins International USA
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ANTONI ANDIKA PUTRABMD
ANTONI ANDIKA PUTRA
Career
2014 join Dining Innovation
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015 (Asst. MGR@Kintan Resto)
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016 (Operasinal MGR@PT.IKI) -
Daichi Kikuta(JP)ストアコンサルタント
菊田 大典
経歴
2019年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィック台湾支店 直営運営部 ストアコンサルタント
2012年~2018年 株式会社レインズインターナショナル
Administration
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Wendy OngAdministration
Wendy Ong
Career
2016 join Dining Innovation
GM – Administration Division at Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd
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Shintaro MitsushiroAdministration
Shintaro Mitsushiro
Career
2016 Corporate Planning Manager at Dining Innovation Asia-Pacific Pte.Ltd.
2012-2015 Corporate Planning Division at Dining Innovation Ltd
2012 join Dining Innovation
2005-2012 Reins International Co.Ltd -
Shingo Mori(JP)管理本部 GM
森 信吾
経歴
2021年入社
PT. Inovasi Kuliner Indonesia 管理本部 GM
1995年～2018年 株式会社 大真空
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FRANCISCASCM Manager
FRANCISCA
Career
2016 join Dining Innovation
Oct 2012 - Mar 2016 (NPD MGR @Dominos Pizza Ind.
Oct 2011 - Sept 2012 (SCM MGR @Dominos Pizza Ind.
June 2004 - July 2011 (SCM Executive @Pizza HUT Ind. -
Irene Kao(JP)管理本部 GM
アイリーン コウ
経歴
2020年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィック台湾支店 管理本部 GM 台湾公認会計士
2010年~2011年 中國信託商業銀行 財務部 2007年~2009年 デロイトトーマツ 監査部
2011年~2020年 東京牛角股份有限公司 財務経理部 課長 -
Yoshiyuki Miura(JP)経営戦略室 シニアマネージャー
三浦 嘉之
経歴
2022年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィック台湾支店 経営戦略室 シニアマネージャー
エベラール・ジャパン、ゴリラ・ジャパン ブランドマネージャー 2015年～2017年 SFBIアジアパシフィック マーケティングマネージャー、エリアマネージャー
2017年～2022年 リヤドロジャパン株式会社 アジア統括本部 リージョナルビジネス＆マーケティングコーディネーター -
Wendy Wu(JP)経理部 マネージャー
ウェンディ ウー
経歴
2019年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィック台湾支店 経理部 マネージャー
2014年～2016年 東京牛角股份有限公司 財務経理部 2013年～2014年 デロイトトーマツ 監査部
2017年～2019年 好市多股份有限公司 購買部
Food Coordinator
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Hideki SahashiFood Coordinator
Hideki Sahashi
Career
2013 join Dining Innovation
CHEF at Dining Innovation Ltd
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ENY ENGKLIWANGHead Butcher
ENY ENGKLIWANG
Career
2017 join Dining Innovation
June 2007 - Mar 2016 (Head Butcher Gyukaku)
2002 - 2006 (Asst. Chef @Central Kitchen Kampai BBQ)
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Asako Takahashi(JP)管理本部 GM
高橋 麻子
経歴
2017年入社
ダイニングイノベーション アジア・パシフィック 開発本部 商品開発・購買マネージャー
2016～2017年 株式会社 スープストックトーキョー
2005～2016年 株式会社 スマイルズ
