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日本展開：学校給食に新たな風を
現在、学校給食の課題に対応するため、ホットチェーンテクノロジーソリューションを日本の学校に展開する準備を進めています。この取り組みにより、保護者は安心して子供たちが安全で栄養価の高い、アレルゲンに配慮した食事を学校で楽しめるようになります。また、学校給食のスタッフ採用における労働力不足の解消も目指しています。このアプローチは、食品の品質と安全性を向上させるだけでなく、学校給食システム全体の現代化を図り、家庭や学校に便利さと安心を提供します。業務の効率化と手作業への依存の軽減により、学校が給食サービスを効率的に管理しつつ、学生への高いケア基準を維持することを支援します。
和田フードテックの共同創設者でありフードサイエンティストの及川学氏は、「弊社のホットチェーンテクノロジーは、食事を65°C以上の最適な温度で保つことで、学生が温かく新鮮なランチを楽しめるようにします。職場、病院、建設現場での成功した導入実績を基に、香港と日本の学校給食を変革できると確信しています。」と語っています。
和田フードテックについて
和田フードテックは、レストランが実店舗に依存せずに販売を拡大できる分散型フードサービスプラットフォームを提供しています。このプラットフォームにより、新鮮で温かい食事をわずか17秒で消費者のもとへ届けることが可能となります。レストランは従来の店舗にとどまらず、和田フードテックのホットチェーンロジスティックと自動化されたお弁当用販売機を利用することで、オフィスビル、学校、病院、建設現場などの人が多く集まる場所に戦略的に設置することが可能です。
和田フードテックは、特許を取得したAIoTホットチェーントータルソリューションを活用し、ロジスティックプロセス全体で食品の安全性と新鮮さを確保しています。この革新的な技術は、米国、日本、中国で合計8つの特許を取得しており、Forbesの『アジアの注目企業100』に選出されています。これまでに80万食以上を販売し、日本、香港、オーストラリアでの導入で成功を収めています。労働力不足の問題に対処しつつ、食品の安全性を向上させるため、日本や他の先進国への分散型フードサービスプラットフォームの拡大に力を入れています。
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Wada FoodTech is Changing the Future of School Catering with a Hot-Chain
Total Solution
Wada FoodTech has successfully expanded its operations in Hong Kong over the years, demonstrating its expertise in addressing key challenges related to food safety and quality in school lunches. This commitment to innovation provides schools, students, and parents with an exceptional dining experience.
Hot-Chain Technology: Solving School Lunch Challenges
Traditional school lunches often struggle with inconsistent food quality, inadequate temperature control, and lack of standards in storage and distribution. Many students avoid school-provided meals, resulting in parents either waking up early to prepare lunches or delivering meals to schools themselves, which adds stress to daily routines. Wada FoodTech has addressed these pain points by utilizing its hot-chain technology to ensure that freshly prepared lunches remain above 65°C throughout the entire logistics process, from kitchen to automated distribution machines, without the need for freezing or reheating. This ensures that students receive warm, fresh, and delicious meals directly at school.
Successful Implementation in Hong Kong Schools
Wada FoodTech has already established a strong presence in four schools and four universities across Hong Kong, including Pooi To Primary School and several leading universities such as The University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Hong Kong Baptist University. At Pooi To Primary School, where the system was initially piloted, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive from students, parents, and teachers alike, leading to a full-scale implementation. Since its launch, Wada FoodTech has successfully delivered tens of thousands of hot meals to students.
New Pre-Order System Enhances Convenience and Safety
In response to growing demand, Wada FoodTech has introduced an innovative online pre-order system that significantly enhances the meal selection process for parents and students. At the end of each month, parents and kids can conveniently select their bentos and place orders on Wada FoodTech’s user-friendly online platform. After completing the payment, they receive a unique QR code that streamlines the meal collection process.
The following month, students can simply visit the vending machines to pick up their meals using the QR codes without the need to remember their specific orders.
Moreover, the online platform clearly displays detailed information about allergens and special ingredients for each meal. This transparency allows parents and children to avoid potential concerns related to allergies, religious dietary restrictions, and personal tastes, ensuring a safe and enjoyable dining experience for everyone.
Expanding to Japan: A New Era for School Catering
Looking ahead, Wada FoodTech is preparing to expand its hot-chain technology solution to schools in Japan, with the goal of addressing similar challenges in school
catering. This expansion aims to alleviate the current labor shortage in hiring staff for school catering, ensuring that parents in Japan, as in Hong Kong, can rest easy knowing their children are enjoying safe, nutritious, and allergen-conscious meals at school. Wada FoodTech’s innovative approach will not only improve food quality and safety but also modernize the entire school catering system, bringing convenience and peace of mind to families and schools alike. By streamlining operations and reducing the reliance on manual labor, this initiative will support schools in efficiently managing their catering services while maintaining high standards of care for students.
Mr. Oikawa Manabu, Food Scientist and Co-founder of Wada FoodTech, highlighted the company’s mission: “Our hot-chain technology keeps meals at the optimal temperature above 65°C, ensuring that students can enjoy warm and fresh lunches. After successfully applying this technology in workplaces, hospitals, and construction sites, we are confident it will transform school catering in both Hong Kong and Japan.”
About Wada FoodTech
Wada FoodTech is a decentralized foodservice platform that enables restaurants to extend their sales reach beyond physical locations, making fresh and hot meals accessible at consumers' doorsteps in just 17 seconds. Restaurants are no longer confined to traditional brick-and-mortar establishments; they can now decentralize their sales to generate additional revenue through Wada FoodTech’s hot-chain logistics and fully automated bento machines, strategically placed in high-traffic areas such as the lobbies of office buildings, schools, hospitals, and even construction sites.
Wada FoodTech ensures food safety and freshness throughout the logistics process using its patented AIoT Hot-chain Total Solution. This innovative technology has been recognized with eight patents in the US, Japan, and China, and has earned Wada FoodTech a spot on Forbes' "Asia 100 to Watch" list. The platform has been validated through the sale of over 800,000 bento boxes and successful deployments in Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Wada FoodTech is now focused on expanding its decentralized foodservice platform to Japan and other developed countries, addressing the challenges of labor shortages while enhancing food safety.
For more information, please visit www.wadafoodtech.com or contact us at info@wadabento.com.
