"Gyoza no Marukawa" specializes in takeaway dumplings. The owner was an office worker who quit his job to start his own dumplings shop. The sales per day in his first year was only about ten to twenty thousand yen. "I was really saved" he says, bacause that was when a nearby supermarket offered to regularly purchase his frozen dumplings.
Fresh foods are difficult to keep for a length of time because of hygiene issues. In that respect, dumplings can be kept for a long time because it can be frozen. It is also easy to expand sales area for the frozen dumplings. Currently, they sell their dumplings to co-op store as well.