We have 30 years of experience in making gyoza(dumpling) equipment.
Our customers come to Toa Industry for gyoza(dumpling)-making machines they know they can rely on.

As the name "Hakatamon" suggests, the sales point of the restaurant is Hakata noodle, the restaurant is joint managed by two women from Kyusyu. Since the restaurant opened13 years ago, they have been purchasing noodle from Kyusyu, and making roasted pork fillet themselves. Good taste made the restaurant prosperous and always crowed with regular customers.
Gyoza is comparable to noodle in sales volume. They are particular about both noodle and gyoza. They improved the ingredients by adjusting salt volume for vegetable of different seasons. We only provide what we satisfied. Once the gyoza is made, it is not able to remake, therefore, we taste ingredient till affirmable. Although the gyoza is rather expensive as 380 Yen for six pieces, almost all customers ordered gyoza with noodle together.

The most reason of using machine is quick wrapping for keeping freshness. Wrapping fresh ingredients makes gyoza delicious, because water extracting from vegetable changes the texture.
Every ten days, we make and freeze about 2400 pieces once. The machine operator is 70 years old part-time employee. The operation is so simple that even a senior aged woman can do the job in three and half hours. We had an experience of making gyoza by hand once, when the machine was bad in condition, it took two days for four peoples. At that time the freshness of ingredients was not as good as before. Since that, whenever it has troubles, we always contact Toa Industry immediately and received their prompt technical support.

A good working machine can guarantee gyoza supply and avoid the problem of out of stock. The machine has little trouble, but sometimes a delicate adjustment is necessary. After 13 years working, some parts of the machine need replaced. During the period, Toa Industry lent us the necessary parts without charge. We are so satisfied that with such prompt support of Toa Industry, gyoza-making is assured.

YOKOHAMAHANTEN provides noodle and Chinese food mainly, but the key commodity is gyoza. It accounts for 80 percent of total sales. Furthermore, 80 percent of gyoza sales are takeout. From 4:00 to 17:00 of every Friday to Sunday, they make about 5000 to 6000 pieces. Although output of weekday is about half of it, it is still beyond the usual handmade manufacturing capacity. The owner said: I am sure that I will be exhausted without the machine. The machine makes efficiency. It is no exaggeration to say that the business is sustainable by support of the machine.

We have been using Toa's machine for 10 years. Comparing with the previous machine made by another maker, Toa's machine is really reliable for it's less defects rate and troubles. Usually, handmade gyoza varies widely in amount of ingredients, size and shape. Also, it takes time to master wrapping skills. Toa Industry solved the problems by adjusting the machine to the wrapper and ingredients, and made our gyoza uniform in size and shape.
We are very confidence in the taste. The key point of taste is its’ filling. We are not able to show the recipe of the gyoza filling for reason of business secret, all the materials and seasoning are good in quality.

The cost of gyoza is not cheap. According to the special issue of Town magazine, comparing with most restaurants of average price of 50 Yen for one piece, the gyoza of YOKOHAMAHANTEN is fairly cheap of 21 Yen for one piece. According to the owner, it is the lowest possible price for the restaurant.
Usually, the restaurant is so popular that all stocks are sold out before the closing time, without any leftovers.
Because most customers order uncooked or frozen gyoza takeout, they don't need to wait long time. Therefore, a narrow auto park is enough. The owner said that it is the merit of takeout business.