Restaurant opening intelligence / Japan
FOD
A practical opening desk for founders choosing a dish class, a street, a lease, a license path, a kitchen, and a supplier system before the first rent day.
FOD Food Opening Desk
OMT Existing restaurant ranking and omotenashi reputation
First value plan before lease
Private engine supplier, equipment, landlord, and wholesale pipeline
Position
OMT ranks restaurants. FOD helps create the next ones.
FOD is for the founder who is still choosing the exact street, cuisine class, shop size, rent ceiling, kitchen equipment, license route, and launch budget. It turns restaurant-opening decisions into a guided path that can later become a Django app, a SQLite operating desk, or a full marketplace.
Map diagnosis
Choose cuisine, rent, station demand, and readiness.
This static prototype turns owner inputs into a first-pass action path. A backend can later replace the scoring with real geodata, permit status, and supplier quotes.
Opening desk
The founder should never face the lease alone.
FOD packages the messy work into visible lanes that a founder, advisor, landlord, designer, license specialist, and supplier can all understand.
Menu thesis, ticket size, seats, turns, staffing, rent ceiling, food cost, cash runway, and investor or lender version.
Station catchment, daypart demand, competitor density, category gaps, delivery fit, and walking-path friction.
Licensed broker support for candidate sites, landlord fit, hidden cost flags, lease terms, and opening constraints.
Food service permit checklist, kitchen layout review, sanitation plan, fire and signage flags, and timing map.
New, used, lease, maintenance, refrigeration, ventilation, dishwashing, POS, payment, and delivery setup.
Ingredient sourcing, wholesaler matching, replenishment dashboard, menu-margin alerts, and future cross-Japan delivery flow.
Place intelligence
Italian, Chinese, ramen, cafe, and izakaya demand are different streets.
FOD should not sell one generic restaurant plan. It should diagnose the market for a specific class of dishes, target customer behavior, kitchen constraints, and rent capacity.
Dish class
Street logic
Early proof
Italian
Dinner story, wine fit, date and family paths
Menu gross margin plus repeat reservations
Chinese
Lunch speed, delivery radius, group dinner
Prep capacity and repeat weekday orders
Ramen
Queue tolerance, station flow, late-night demand
Turnover and soup production discipline
Cafe
Dwell time, daylight, work-study traffic
Seat-hour yield and dessert attachment
Backend pipeline
Public founder value first. Private supplier value second.
The public page should invite founders. The admin side can create pipeline value for landlords, equipment vendors, wholesalers, designers, and service providers.
Collect cuisine, budget, target area, lease timing, kitchen needs, license status, and capital plan.
Score which landlord, equipment lease, supplier, designer, finance, or advisor lane should be introduced next.
Offer qualified demand to vendors without exposing private founder details until consent and commercial fit are clear.
After opening, attach purchase orders, price changes, stock alerts, menu margin, and delivery scheduling.
Advisor credibility
Finance, security, founders, and real estate in one desk.
FOD can be endorsed by disciplined risk analysis and real-world founder access: CIIA investment analysis, security analyst thinking, listed-chain founder conversations, building-owner connections, and licensed real estate agency capability.
Risk lens
Business plans that investors and lenders can actually inspect
Real estate
Property search, landlord fit, lease terms, and opening constraints
Network
Founder, supplier, equipment, and building-owner introductions after consent
Next layer
Token, dashboard, wholesale, merchandising, and delivery participation
Seven-day founder path
Make the first benefit arrive fast.
- Day 1Founder submits concept, budget, target station, cuisine, equipment, and opening date.
- Day 2FOD returns the first map diagnosis and rent ceiling memo.
- Day 3Advisor reviews license, kitchen, ventilation, and lease blocking items.
- Day 4Candidate properties and pop-up alternatives are ranked.
- Day 5Equipment buy-or-lease options and supplier categories are matched.
- Day 6Business plan is converted into lender, investor, landlord, and internal versions.
- Day 7Founder chooses the next action: site visit, permit prep, pop-up test, or supplier quote.