From the company's own filing for H1 (Mar–Aug 2026) · reported 2026-10-14 · the filing ↗
JapanThe company says typhoons and heavy rain hit roadside Kagonoya and street-front Isomaru Suisan hardest. Across the industry, it says, price rises kept lifting spend per customer while customer numbers stalled as diners grew choosier.
StoresIts CR category of shopping-centre restaurants and food courts opened 6 and closed 16, ending August at 513. Shabu-sai got its first new logo and signage in about 20 years and sister brands are being converted to it; two new formats are being rolled out nationwide.
Other callouts in the filing
One-offCosts of absorbing listed subsidiary SFP Holdings on 1 July and other one-off items weighed on profit; adjusted EBITDA, which strips such items out, fell 7.0% to ¥13.06bn.
BasisKansai chain Ron joined in March and Minnesota's six-restaurant Hazelwood Food + Drink in July; Tokyo ramen group Koike (Innocence), ten shops including Bib Gourmand-listed Ramen Koike, completed joining in September, after the half.
OutlookFull-year guidance is unchanged at ¥171.0bn revenue (+3.4%) and ¥9.0bn operating profit (+13.3%); for the second half the company counts on the three acquisitions, an end to one-off costs and head-office savings from the merger.
floortok's reading of the filing, in our own words. Figures are the company's own; where a growth rate is our arithmetic, it says so.
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H1 (Mar–Aug 2026) · Year-to-Date
Reported 2026-10-14
Revenue¥86.1bn▲ +3.5%
Operating profit¥4.1bn▼ −16.6%
Net income¥2.7bn▼ −15.6%
Q2 alone (Jun–Aug 2026)
Revenue¥42.8bn—
Operating profit¥0.7bn—
Net income¥0.5bn—
Create Restaurants runs restaurants and food courts, many of them inside shopping centres, department stores and station buildings, so its trade tracks footfall in the same buildings floortok maps. In March–August 2026 revenue rose 3.5% to ¥86.1bn on acquisitions and strong bakery and noodle brands, but operating profit fell 16.6% to ¥4.1bn and net income 15.6% to ¥2.7bn.
Q1 (Mar–May 2026) · Year-to-Date
Reported 2026-07-14
Revenue¥43.3bn▲ +3.5%
Operating profit¥3.4bn▲ +10.8%
Net income¥2.2bn▲ +6.2%
Create Restaurants is the operator whose fortunes track the floors most directly: the majority of its restaurants sit inside shopping centres, department stores and station buildings, so its trade is a read on footfall in the same buildings floortok maps. Revenue grew 3.5% to ¥43.3bn in March–May 2026, operating profit 10.8% to ¥3.4bn and net income 6.2% to ¥2.2bn. Full-year guidance is unchanged at ¥171.0bn revenue (+3.4%) and ¥9.0bn operating profit (+13.3%).
JapanExisting-store sales rose 2.8%, led by the CR category of shopping-centre restaurants and food courts (+4.3%); specialty brands (−0.3%) and izakaya (−0.7%) slipped, and May was the strongest month (+6.1%).
StoresClosures outnumbered openings 16 to 8 (mostly lease expiries), but the Ron acquisition added 10 Kansai restaurants; new sites include Tecona Bagel at Daimaru Umeda and Marumon at AEON Mall Odaka.
JapanOf 1,127 group restaurants at end-May, 26.4% sat in urban shopping centres, 21.4% in suburban centres and 23.1% at stations or downtown, with 14.4% roadside, a footprint tied to mall and station traffic.
SegmentThe izakaya business (formerly SFP, led by Isomaru Suisan) grew revenue on new stores and cheaper tavern conversions, but its existing stores fell and category cash flow dropped to ¥657mn from ¥765mn.
BasisCreate absorbed listed subsidiary SFP Holdings on 1 July 2026, after the quarter, ending the parent-subsidiary listing; Kansai chain Ron joined in March and Tokyo ramen group Innocence (Ramen Koike) joins on 1 September.
One-offMost of the operating-profit gain came from lower one-off items: underlying operating profit, which strips out impairments and similar costs, rose just ¥54mn to ¥3.49bn.