Codomon and baby's fun! Collaborate to create a comfortable work environment for employees by offering more options to reduce the workload of food service operations at childcare facilities.

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(Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yoshinori Koike) will collaborate with sketchbook Inc. (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Noboru Tadade), which provides "baby's fun! By saving labor in operations related to preschool meal service, we will create time to create value for preschools. By offering multiple options for food service operations, preschools introducing Codomon will be able to operate more ideal preschools.

Labor-saving food service at childcare facilities with "baby's fun!

baby's fun!" is a service that supports in-house food preparation to enable school lunch operations with a small number of employees. By reducing the cumbersome workload in the lunchroom, it is possible to prepare meals within the government's specified staffing standards. In addition, the nutritionist's work can be diverted to providing school lunches that children enjoy eating and to creating unique school lunches.

Automatic menu creation system, Daily Menu Labo

By simply answering a few questions, the system easily creates a month's worth of menus. The menu is created based on the dietitian's ideas, and the system allows centralized management of downloading and ordering of documents that meet audit standards.

Cut ingredients.

Domestic cut food ingredients that reduce cooking time by 50% are delivered according to your menu. Individual meal packs can be ordered for as little as 5 people. A nutritionist with experience cooking at a daycare center provides support on how to use the ingredients.

Nutrition Education Content: Shoku Labo

We offer paper media that can be downloaded and used immediately in accordance with the annual nutrition education plan. Paper charts for event meals, etc., and procedure manuals for cooking childcare, etc., allow you to provide nutrition education without spending a lot of time on preparation.

Initiatives with "baby's fun!

More Options for Childcare and Education Facilities Using Codomon

There are a variety of challenges associated with food service operations, such as the complexity of dealing with baby food and allergies, the need to reduce the time required for menu creation, ordering, and food preparation, the lack of time for nutrition education, and the difficulty of coordinating with childcare for staff involved in food service such as dietitians. baby's fun! Menu Labo," "Cut Food Ingredients," and "Dietary Education Contents: Shoku Labo." In the future, we are considering system integration between "Codomon" and "Menu Labo" to solve the problems of facilities from various perspectives. Codomon hopes to contribute to the realization of more ideal preschool operations by providing multiple options for solving issues in food service operations.

sketchbook, Inc. Company Profile

Name: sketchbook, Inc.
◆Location: 1-24-14-102, Ebisu-Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan
Representative: Noboru Tadade
◆Capital: 86,760,941 yen (including capital reserve)
◆Establishment: July 2020
◆WEB:https://babysfun.jp
◆Business Description: "Make children and everyone involved with children HAPPY! to reduce the cumbersome work in the lunchrooms of daycare centers and to create more time for working dietitians and nutritionists to spend with children.

Codomon Corporation Company Profile

Location: 3F Mita 43MT Building, 3-13-16 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
◆Capital: 68,250,000 yen
Representative: Yoshinori Koike, Representative Director
◆WEB:https://www.codmon.co.jp/
◆Business description: Engaged in projects to improve the environment surrounding children and embody the creation of an organization that is easy to work in for workers. Contribute to society by improving the environment from multiple perspectives to change society to be child-rearing friendly.

Development and provision of "Codomon," an ICT service for childcare and education facilities as childcare infrastructure to improve the working environment for employees of childcare and education facilities and to support improvement of the quality of childcare and education. 99.7% of the service continuity rate in FY2022. 17,000 facilities and 350,000 employees nationwide were using the service as of early January, 2024. Approximately 482 municipalities nationwide have decided to introduce the service or conduct demonstration experiments. The company has the largest market share in terms of the number of facilities, the number of municipalities that have introduced the service, and the number of municipalities that have contracted with the service (survey by Tokyo Shoko Research, Inc., January 2024).
Hoysil, a recruitment and preschool childcare recruitment support service that connects parents and job seekers with childcare and educational facilities.https://www.hoicil.com/)" provision. Provide information that allows children's facilities to easily communicate the attractiveness of their facilities, and makes it easier for childcare students and re-employment seekers to access employment information.

In addition, the company sells photos online to nursery schools, "Codomon Print (https://www.codmon.com/print/)", an e-commerce site specializing in children's facilities, "Codomon Store (https://store.codmon.com/)," an online training service for improving the qualifications and expertise of childcare workers in the field, and "Codomon College (https://college.codmon.com/)" and "Sensei Prime (https://senseiprime.com/)" and so on. Regarding facilities whose recruitment schedule was "as usual" or "earlier than usual," the most common reasons for this were "Improvement of information posted on websites and job offers" at 13.41 TP6T and "Sufficiently conveyed attractiveness during preschool tours" at 13.21 TP6T, respectively. Proactive acceptance of interns," which was the most common response at 16% in the previous survey, decreased by approximately 5 points to 10.9%. Other responses such as "communicating the attractiveness of working conditions" and "actively requesting referrals from training schools" indicate that the companies are providing sufficient information to job seekers from a variety of perspectives.

Outline of "CoDMON" ICT service for childcare and educational facilities

Codomon is a SaaS*1 service that provides teachers and parents working in daycare centers and kindergartens with a variety of support tools to help them have more time to deal with their children.
It supports the creation of an environment that enhances the quality of childcare while greatly reducing the workload of teachers through functions such as smart recording of growth records and teaching plans linked to preschooler information, management of arrival and departure from preschool, and communication support functions with parents. At the same time, we provide solutions that enable integrated management of ICT/IoT environments in preschools, including API linkage with IoT devices such as baby sensors. In addition to the contact function with the facility, the parent application provides services such as child growth management, photo albums, and daycare fee payment functions.

1 SaaS is a system that provides application software functions to customers through a network as needed.