For those who use the Children's Cafeteria

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For those who use the Children's Cafeteria

Children's Cafeteria (Harukatsu Cafeteria)

Store features (no reservations required, open every day, etc.)

This is a restaurant for the general public. We also operate a "children's cafeteria" where you can eat every day without making a reservation. We provide meals that are highly nutritious and quickly absorbed by the body. As much as possible, we would like to create menus using seasonal ingredients so that you can feel the season.

We want children to be interested in "food," and we operate as a place for children to eat together in the community, providing support for lifestyle habits such as food education, and interacting with the community, so that everyone can feel safe.

We also operate a food pantry and children's home delivery service from time to time, so please let us know if you need it.
We are working as part of "outreach support" that creates connections through food, understands the problems of families, and connects them to the necessary support. A portion of the sales will be used to distribute food to poor households and to purchase ingredients for the children's cafeteria. In addition to providing meals that will make you nod in agreement, our concept and priorities are to share the happiness of sharing the same joy with everyone, whether they are disabled, able-bodied, struggling in life, or single-parent families, with the concept of a "place without barriers" where everyone can enjoy the same meal.
We also believe that it is important to provide a balanced meal, taking into consideration the nutritional balance necessary for children's growth.

About our customers (age range, circumstances, etc.)
We hope that our children's cafeteria will be used by a wide range of age groups, from preschoolers to the elderly.
Our children's cafeteria is not only for children, but also functions as a place for local interaction, providing an opportunity for multiple generations to eat and talk together. Details are as follows.
Preschoolers
Elementary school students
Junior high and high school students: Many high school students living in dormitories, students on their way home from school, and elementary school students from the neighborhood on weekends and other days when school is closed.
Adults (18 years old and over): Businessmen use our cafeteria during lunch hours.
Elderly people: There are a certain number of elderly people who use the cafeteria, and it is used as a place for multi-generational interaction.

Background and circumstances of use
・Prevention of isolation for child-rearing generation
・It is used as a place for parents who are raising children to connect with the community and prevent isolation.
・Prevention of elderly people eating alone
・Multi-generational interaction
・Not only children but also adults and elderly people use the cafeteria, which creates interaction across generations.
・Community revitalization
・It is expected that becoming a place for local residents to interact will lead to the revitalization of the entire community.

I think that there are many children who need meal support during spring, summer, and winter vacations, but rather than being a "place only for poverty measures," I would like children's cafeterias to be an important hub for multi-generational interaction in an atmosphere similar to that of the old "children's clubs" in today's society where contact with the community is decreasing.

Many people have the image that "children's cafeterias are a place where children who cannot afford to eat in poor families go." As a result, it is true that many children are reluctant to come, and it is also true that the negative effect of parents banning their children from entering the cafeteria has been created. However, I think that this is a big misunderstanding.
Kodomo Shokudos are not "places solely for tackling poverty" nor are they "places to provide welfare support."
They have two aspects: they are a hub for local interaction and they are an anti-poverty measure. We would like people to use Kodomo Shokudos as "creating a place in the local community for a diverse range of children," "creating a place in the local community for children from low-income families," and "building a community where residents are involved in child-rearing."

Closed: Mondays and Tuesdays
Business hours: 10:00-17:30 (last order)
Inquiries: 089-900-1046