百貨店をめぐる「食」の変容 : 昭和戦前期を中心に

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In 1904, the first restaurant in Japanese department store appeared at Shiroki-ya department store. Since then, other department stores had opened up restaurants in their stores. Because there were so many calls for restaurants in department store, they grew bigger and got diversified. In 1930, Mitsukoshi department store started to serve okosama-lunch. It was a reflection of the customers in those days which was formed by the new-middle class. Department store made their grocery section extended especially after the great Kanto Earthquake. As the grocery section extended its new from selling food products at reasonable price to gifts and souzais, many department stores had started food manufacturing on their own. As a result of them, some problems had arisen. One of the problems was discharge of scrap; the remains of a meal wash. There is indication in the report of Tokyo City in 1930 that department stores new discharging scrap heavily. While the restaurants were these certain classes, the grocery section of the department store was targeting various classes of customers. The facts tell us that food section of department store in modern Japan played a part in the change of eating habit, while made multiplexing at once.