There are variety of restaurants that are open 24/7 in Japan for late night workers. Recently, those restaurants are becoming a target of robbery at night. Although, there are lots of restaurants in Japan that open late at night, “Gyudon” beef-on-rice restaurants belonging to Sukiya Chain has become robber’s favourite target. As its stated in the article, out of 71 robberies at gyudon restaurants, 63 targeted Sukiya.
There are several reasons Sukiya Chain became robber’s favourite target. First, they only got one worker to keep the costs low. Second, they have cashier with large amount of cash right by the entrance; therefore, it’s a perfect target for the robbers.
To decrease the amount of robbery, they are planning to strengthen their security by always keeping two workers working, change the cashier into meal ticket machine which will take much longer time to break into.
In my opinion, it will reduce the number of robbery for Sukiya Chain; however, the robbers will start targeting other chains such as Yoshinoya and Nakau. Which will cause the increase of robbery for them. To reduce the number of robbery they should do the same for all chains.
**All the information and picture are from the article**