Japanese noodle restaurant chain Marugame Seimen, also referred to as Marugame Udon, has introduced that later this month it’ll be having a Marugame Household Evening. From the identify, you would possibly count on this to be a one-night promotion with particular offers for households eating out collectively, like a kids-eat-free service or a reduction for teams that order three or 4 bowls of noodles at a time.
Nonetheless, whereas the aim of Marugame Household Evening is certainly to place a smile on households’ faces, they’re not making an attempt to entice prospects to come back eat dinner at their native Marugame department. As a matter of reality, there’s not going to be anybody on the restaurant on Marugame Household Evening, as a result of the corporate is giving employees that evening off to spend with their households and family members.
Marugame Household Evening falls on a date with a unique, extra broadly recognized identify: Christmas Eve. On December 24, Marugame branches will likely be open for lunch as standard, however will shut at 3:30. Whereas Christmas Eve has lengthy been a serious date evening in Japan, celebrating Christmas with household and associates has turn into more and more well-liked too, and slightly than have workers working away over scorching noodle pots, Marugame figures they’ll be a lot happier exchanging presents, consuming Christmas cake, or simply having some further time to chill out.
▼ A piping scorching bowl of udon will be very satisfying on a chilly winter evening, and Marugame’s limited-time udon with duck does appear to be a very tasty instance, however we’ll survive having to search out one thing else to eat for dinner one time.
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The choice has been met with a really optimistic response from the general public, with feedback on Japanese Twitter together with:
“It’s great that they’re taking the time to consider their employees’ households!”
“It is a great concept. Even if in case you have trip time constructed up, it may be exhausting to ask for the evening off if you already know everybody else goes to be busy and dealing exhausting, so I hope extra firms will begin giving the whole workers the evening off like this.”
“So good to see an organization taking good care of its employees like this.”
“To everybody who works at Marugame, I hope you take pleasure in a restful evening with your loved ones.”
“It’s like the corporate is filled with Santas!”
Marugame Household Evening is a part of the Happiness Capital Administration initiative began earlier this yr by Marugame’s father or mother firm Toridoll Holdings. This system’s purpose is to search out methods to advertise psychological wellbeing and emotional well being amongst its employees.
A couple of cynical, or maybe merely comprehensively observant, on-line commenters additionally identified that almost all Marugame branches in all probability don’t do all that a lot enterprise on Christmas Eve, given that almost all Japanese individuals go for both fancy Western delicacies or fried rooster for dinner on December 24, and so the Marugame Household Evening will in all probability profit the corporate too by way of decreased meals waste and utility prices. Employees nonetheless get the evening off, although, whatever the win-win nature of the state of affairs.
One commenter additionally took situation, in a tongue-and-cheek manner, of Marugame Household Evening wrecking his plans to, as a lonely man with no Christmas Eve plans, go to Marugame and eat a bowl of udon in stoic solitude. The chain has stated, although, {that a} handful of eating places might stay open on December 24, so he would possibly nonetheless be capable of stick with his unique plan by increasing his eating radius if his native department isn’t open, however for most individuals, they’ll want to search out someplace aside from Marugame to eat at that evening.
Supply: Marugame Seimen, Twitter/@UdonMarugame
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