| Company Name | Nippon Restaurant Enterprise Co., Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Established | September 1938 |
| Head Office | Takanawa Center Bldg., 2-19-13 Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0074 Japan |
| President | Katsumi Asai |
| Paid-in capital | 730,788,000 yen |
| Shareholders | East Japan Railway Company (100%) |
| Products and services | Operation of cafeterias on passenger railway company trains, on-board sales, operations related to on-board ticketing and train information Operation of food and drink outlets and sales of cigarettes, stamps, food items, alcoholic beverages and daily necessities and miscellaneous goods Manufacturing, processing, sales and commissioned supply operations for bread, noodles, side dishes, bento box lunches, and secondary ingredients such as seafood, meat, vegetables, etc. Production, processing and sales of rice, grains, vegetables and agricultural commodities, etc. Manufacturing and sales of compost made from raw garbage Operations related to the leasing of real estate Operations related to advertising and promotions Operations related to the general truck transportation business and the cargo forwarding business Operations related to the management of the hotel and wedding ceremony venue Consulting operations related to businesses such as food and drink outlets, retail stores, etc. Commissioned public telephone operations and the management of car parking lots |
| Locations (branch offices) | (Branch offices) Sendai, Niigata, Chiba, Yokohama, Hachioji and Omiya (Branches) Morioka, Akita, Sendai, Yamagata, Niigata, Takasaki, Nagano, Odawara, Hachioji, Mito, Ueno and Tokyo (Factories) Oku, Kita-Toda, Sendai and Morioka (Green Attendant centers) Tokyo, Shinjuku, Ueno, Ofuna, Kōzu, Koganei, Kagohara, Tsudanuma and Chiba |
| Number of employees | 1,958 (as of the date of October 1 ，2011 ，including long-term temporary employees) |
Inside a train cafeteria at the beginning of the Taisho era
| Year | Month | The History of Nippon Shokudo and NRE [In Relation to Japan National Railways and JR] |
|---|---|---|
| 1938 | September | Establishment of Nippon Shokudo Co., Ltd. |
| October | Operations commence | |
| 1981 | April | Operations commence with the opening of the first Sandine store in Shimbashi Station Operations commence in Osaka (May) and Tokyo (August) |
| 1982 | June | [Japan National Railways] Tohoku Shinkansen line opens between Omiya and Morioka |
| November | [Japan National Railways] Joetsu Shinkansen line opens between Omiya and Niigata | |
| 1985 | March | [Japan National Railways] Tohoku/Joetsu Shinkansen line to Ueno opens |
| 1987 | March | The location of the Head Office is transferred to Hatchobori, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |
| April | [JR] Japan National Railways is broken up and privatized. The seven JR companies are launched | |
| June | Nippon Shokudo Co., Ltd. is split up (establishment of subsidiaries and transfer of operations) in Hokkaido and Kyushu | |
| 1988 | March | [JR] Sleeping car limited express "Hokutosei" service commences Cafeteria operations commence |
| June | Nippon Shokudo Co., Ltd. is split up (establishment of subsidiaries and transfer of operations) in Tokai and western Japan | |
| 1990 | December | Launch of Nippon Shokudo Cooking Center Co., Ltd. |
| December | [JR] Gala Yuzawa Station opens, GALA Yuzawa Ski Resort opens | |
| 1991 | March | JR East Tokyo Construction Office employee cafeteria operations commence (JR Shinjuku cafeteria) |
| June | [JR] Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen line to Tokyo opens | |
| 1992 | July | [JR] Yamagata Shinkansen "Tsubasa" service commences |
| 1994 | June | Sendai Cooking Center commences operation |
| 1995 | November | The Product Headquarters is completed in Kita-Toda, Saitama Prefecture |
| 1997 | March | [JR] Akita Shinkansen line opens |
| September | JR East Head Office building employee cafeteria operations commence | |
| October | [JR] Nagano Shinkansen line opens | |
| 1998 | October | In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the company, the name of the company is changed to "Nippon Restaurant Enterprise Co., Ltd." (abbreviation changed from "Nisshoku" to "NRE") |
| 1999 | July | [JR] Sleeping car limited express "Cassiopeia" service commences
Cafeteria operations commence |
| November | The location of the Head Office is transferred to Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo | |
| 2002 | June | （Nippon Restaurants Cooking Center, Co., Ltd. (former name: Nippon Shokudo Cooking Center Co., Ltd.) obtains ISO9001: 2000 [quality management system] certification |
| September | Product Headquarters obtains ISO14001 [environmental management system] certification [JR] Tohoku Shinkansen Hachinohe line opens, "Hayate" service commences |
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| December | Commencement of services provided by Green Attendants on the Hayate and Komachi Green Cars (operations commissioned from JR) | |
| 2003 | June | The company purchases the shares of Nihonbashi Daimasu Co., Ltd. and merges it with Nippon Restaurants Cooking Center, Co., Ltd. to launch NRE Daimasu Co., Ltd. |
| 2004 | October | Commencement of services provided by Green Attendants on local train Green Cars (on the Shonan Shinjuku Line, the Utsunomiya Line and the Takasaki Line) (operations commissioned from JR) (* Expanded to the Tokaido Line, the Yokosuka Line and the Sobu Line (Rapid) in 2006 and the Joban Line in 2007) |
| 2006 | October | The company bought out NRE Koshikawa Co., Ltd. and began direct management of on-board sales on the Joban Line |
| 2009 | September | Product Headquarters obtains ISO9001 [quality management system] certification |
| November | The company purchases the shares of the bento manufacturing and sales operating company of Ofunaken Co., Ltd. and makes it a 100% subsidiary |