J office Tokyo

What J office Tokyo does

J office Tokyo Co., Ltd. (株式会社ジェイオフィス東京), operating as part of ジェイオフィスGROUP, is a privately held Japanese food service industry recruitment media company founded as a spin-off in 2005 from the original Joffice Co., Ltd. (established 1992). The company operates two complementary proprietary job board platforms — Gourmet Carry (グルメキャリー) for mid-career and experienced food service workers, and Eflabo (エフラボ) for new graduates — supported by a licensed paid employment placement service, an event business running job fairs in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sendai, a twice-yearly ~10,000-copy magazine distributed to culinary schools, a dedicated new-graduate mobile app, and listings syndicated to Indeed, 求人ボックス, and スタンバイ. Approximately 90% of Gourmet Carry users are experienced food service professionals, with ~1 million monthly site visits, and the platform ranked No.1 among food service recruitment sites in 2025.

Revenue is generated through three primary streams: job posting advertising (one-time fees of 55,000-297,000 JPY per 4-week posting with subscription and multi-ticket bundle discounts), success-based talent introduction fees (550,000-770,000 JPY per experienced hire, paid in installments post-hire), and job fair exhibition fees (330,000-550,000 JPY per event). Pricing is publicly disclosed and tiered by visibility (A through E plan levels) and duration (3/6/12-month subscriptions at 20-35% discounts). Go-to-market is sales-led with dedicated account managers assigned by geography across three offices (Ginza HQ, Umeda HQ in Osaka, Sendai branch); customer acquisition for job seekers relies on a national TV CM campaign and 70+ culinary school partnerships. The company holds two MHLW paid employment placement licenses (13-ユ-304975 and 27-ユ-301338) and serves a customer base spanning restaurants, hotels, catering operations, and culinary schools.

Name

J office Tokyo

Legal name

株式会社ジェイオフィス東京

Website

https://joffice-tokyo.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

J office Tokyo operates Gourmet Carry and Eflabo, Japan's leading food service industry job boards serving restaurants, hotels, and culinary schools with job postings, talent introduction, and new-graduate job fairs across Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Food service industry recruitment services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Advertising Agencies (54181), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACABAL

Recruitment Marketing & Employer Branding for RPO

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

SECONDARYMPAAACAK

Lead Generation & Performance Media (B2B/B2C)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Advertising, Marketing & PR Services/Digital & Performance Marketing (SEO/SEM, Paid Social, Affiliate)

SECONDARYBPACAKAG

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/HR Outsourcing (HRO) & Shared Services

SECONDARYMPAAAAAM

Employer Brand & Recruitment Marketing Creative Agencies

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Advertising, Marketing & PR Services/Advertising Agencies (Full-Service/Creative)

Keywords

• Food service recruitment
• Restaurant industry hiring
• Job board advertising
• Culinary school recruiting
• Headhunting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job posting advertising (グルメキャリー & エフラボ): Recruitment advertising fees charged to food service businesses for posting job listings on Gourmet Carrie (mid-career) and e-Flavo (new graduate) platforms. Fees vary by plan type, duration, and add-on services. Multiple plan structures including one-time, monthly subscription, and multi-ticket bundles.
2. Employment introduction / headhunting services: Fee-based placement service matching food service businesses with experienced candidates (head chefs, store managers, SV-level). Completely performance-based with fees charged only after successful hiring. Installment payment structure (50% at 1 month post-hire, 50% at 2 months).
3. Job fair exhibition fees: Companies pay to exhibit at organized recruitment events — Gourmet Carrie job fairs (Tokyo/Osaka) and e-Flavo new graduate job fairs (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sendai). Fees vary by event scale and location.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Joffice Group sells recruitment advertising, headhunting, and event services to food service businesses through two proprietary platforms — Gourmet Carry (mid-career and experienced) and Eflabo (new graduates). Revenue is generated from employer fees for job postings, performance-based talent introduction, and job fair exhibitions, supported by a culinary school magazine and mobile app that funnel candidates into the marketplace.

Product overview

J office Tokyo operates a multi-product platform for the Japanese food service industry recruitment market. The core offerings consist of two specialized job websites: Gourmet Carry (グルメキャリー) for mid-career and experienced professionals, and Eflabo (エフラボ) exclusively for new graduates. Supporting services include a licensed human resources introduction service, job fair events (career fairs) held in major cities, a free career magazine distributed to culinary schools, and a mobile job-search app for graduates. The company also recently launched a comprehensive platform renewal (January 2026) featuring full user registration, resume creation, and streamlined application features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• グルメキャリー (Gourmet Carree): 飲食業界専門求人サイト - Mid-career recruitment site for the food service industry, featuring approximately 90% experienced food industry professionals among users
• エフラボ (E-flabo)
• グルメキャリー飲食合説
• エフラボ就食フェア

Products and services

• Gourmet Carry (グルメキャリー) Comprehensive mid-career and experienced-hire job recruitment website for the food service industry, featuring approximately 90% experienced food industry professionals among its roughly 1 million monthly visitors. Serves restaurants, hotels, catering, and culinary schools with tiered subscription plans and add-on services.
• Eflabo (エフラボ) New graduate recruitment website exclusively for the food service industry, with top usage among culinary and hospitality school students. Distributed in combination with a free bi-annual magazine and in-person job fairs to reach first-job candidates.
• Gourmet Carry Paid Talent Introduction Service (有料職業紹介事業) Licensed (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) fee-based placement service specializing in experienced professionals such as head chefs and store managers, with success-based compensation (standard 770,000 JPY for hires under 50; 550,000 JPY for 50+), split installment payments, and rebates if the hiree resigns early.
• Gourmet Carry Job Fair (合同企業説明会) In-person mid-career recruitment events for the food service industry, held twice yearly in Tokyo (Akihabara UDX) and three times yearly in Osaka (Umeda), with up to 82 exhibiting companies per Tokyo event.
• Eflabo Shokushoku Fair (エフラボ就食フェア) and Insho Gousetsu (飲食合説) Large-scale and smaller regional new graduate recruitment events held across Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sendai. The Shokushoku Fair in Tokyo costs 550,000 JPY per exhibiting company; regional Insho Gousetsu sessions are priced at 440,000 JPY (Tokyo) or 330,000 JPY (Nagoya/Fukuoka/Sendai).
• Eflabo Free Magazine (エフラボフリーマガジン) Free magazine distributed twice yearly (spring and autumn), with approximately 10,000 copies per issue sent to culinary and hospitality school students as part of the Eflabo media set plan.
• Eflabo Shushoku App (エフラボ就活アプリ) Mobile application for new graduates to browse job listings, receive push notifications about job fairs and company updates, and earn login incentives to maintain engagement.

Quantifiable outcome

• About 90% of Gourmet Carrie users are experienced food service workers, enabling targeted hiring
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Gurunavi: Tokyo-listed restaurant information platform (TSE 2440) that monetizes restaurants via promotional services and has historically offered restaurant-industry recruitment features. Comparable as a restaurant-industry platform serving the same employer customers, though recruitment is not its core business.
• Baitoru (バイトル): Part-time/seasonal job board operated by Dip Corporation, with strong restaurant and hospitality verticals. Comparable because it targets the same food service part-time and entry-level worker segment via a national multi-vertical job board model.
• Townwork (タウンワーク): Recruit's flagship part-time/seasonal job magazine and platform with deep restaurant-industry penetration. Comparable as a competing recruitment channel for the same hourly food service worker pool that Gourmet Carrie targets.
• Indeed (Japan): Global job search aggregator and the dominant player in Japanese job seeker intent; Gourmet Carrie lists already syndicate to Indeed sponsor slots. Comparable as the primary aggregator competing for the same candidate traffic and employer recruitment budgets.
• Kyujin Box (求人ボックス): Japanese job search aggregator operated by Indeed, with strong SEO-driven candidate acquisition. Comparable because it competes for the same food service job seeker queries and is one of the syndication channels Joffice already depends on.
• Recruit Holdings: Japan's largest recruitment and HR services conglomerate (parent of Indeed, Townwork, From A Navi, Rikunabi). Comparable because it operates broad recruitment media across food service alongside every other vertical, though at vastly larger scale and as a portfolio play rather than a specialist.

Regional players

• Culinary Agents: US-based vertical job board and talent platform dedicated to the culinary, hospitality and food service industry. Comparable as the closest international analog — a vertical specialist competing against Indeed/Monster with food service depth — though operating in a different geography.
• Poached Jobs: North American hospitality and restaurant vertical job board. Comparable as another food service–focused recruitment media competing against horizontal aggregators, providing a useful international benchmark for vertical job board economics.

Others

• Tabelog (食べログ): Kakaku.com's restaurant review and discovery platform serving the same restaurant operator customers. Comparable as an adjacent restaurant-industry platform that could expand into recruitment-adjacent monetization, representing both a partnership channel and a potential adjacent competitor.

Direct peers

• From A Navi (フロム・エー ナビ): Recruit's mid-career job board with substantial restaurant and food service verticals. Comparable because it competes most directly with Gourmet Carrie for the same experienced mid-career food service worker audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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