株式会社シェアダイン

SHAREDINE (株式会社シェアダイン) operates an online marketplace in Japan through which households book visiting chefs and other food professionals — including registered dietitians, nutritionists and restaurant cooks — to come to the customer's home and prepare food. The core offering is batch cooking (作り置き), typically a three-hour session in which the chef prepares roughly 8-12 dishes sized for three to four people, but the platform also covers in-home course meals and party-style buffets under an "home restaurant" category. The company presents itself as one of the largest visiting-chef services in Japan, with pricing advertised from 768 yen per meal.

Bookings are organized in two ways: by location (prefecture, municipality or nearest train station, with Tokyo prominently featured) and by use case. Use-case categories on the site include weekday batch cooking by nutritionist chefs, body-making and diet menus with high-protein or low-carbohydrate dishes, home restaurant meals for celebrations and parties, pre- and post-natal and fertility nutrition support, baby food across early to late weaning stages, food education and picky-eating menus, daily bento side dishes for kindergarten, club activities and cram school, lifestyle-disease management such as gout prevention and control of salt, sugar and fat, senior care with dysphagia-friendly and nursing-care food, and food-allergy-accommodating chefs. A "share split" (シェア割り) option lets multiple customers jointly use a recurring subscription at a reduced cost, and first-time customers can access introductory plans after free registration.

Individual chefs publish their own plans with fixed prices that include transportation and tax, together with sample menus, session length and a customer star rating and review count; examples on the site range from about 9,900 yen to 13,420 yen for a three-hour batch-cooking session, up to roughly 39,600 yen for a two-person full course with ingredients included, and per-person buffet pricing from about 4,950 yen for larger groups. Some plans include a grocery-shopping service on the chef's part (with ingredient costs paid separately in cash, by PayPay, by credit card or by invoice), while others require the customer to supply ingredients. Chef backgrounds highlighted on the platform include experience at Michelin three-star restaurants, French and Italian kitchens, Japanese cuisine, and certification as a registered dietitian.

Business model

Marketplace model connecting households with independent food professionals who list and price their own in-home cooking plans; plan prices are quoted inclusive of transportation and tax, with ingredient costs typically borne separately by the customer, and recurring subscription and cost-sharing options are offered alongside one-off bookings.

Revenue is generated around bookings of chef plans sold through the platform, which are priced per session (commonly three hours) and quoted from 768 yen per meal, with introductory first-time plans and recurring subscription arrangements.