Yoshinoya Co. will start selling gyudon beef bowls that are easier to eat for the elderly at one of its restaurants to be opened on Saturday in a redeveloped area in Osaka Prefecture.
The nation's major beef-bowl restaurant chain made the beef softer than usual and cut the amount of salt by about 50 percent for the dish to be served at a Yoshinoya restaurant in Northern Osaka Health and Biomedical Innovation Town（NohBIT) that extends over Suita and Settsu in the prefecture.
The store will be the first to serve the dish of its kind among about 1,200 Yoshinoya chain stores nationwide.
NohBIT is being developed in an about 230,000-square-meter area in front of JR Kishibe Station, with Suita Municipal Hospital planning move to the area in December, and the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center is planning to do so in July.
Thus the firm decided to provide the easy-to-eat gyudon bowls for the elderly with weak swallowing function at a restaurant in the area.
The new dish the firm codeveloped with Tokyo Medical and Dental University is made with thinly sliced beef cooked until tender, 0.9 grams of salt and other ingredients.
The calorie intake will be reduced due to the smaller amount of rice.
The newly developed gyudon on white rice will be available for 430 yen (3.80 dollars), and on okayu porridge for 480, yen which is 50 yen to 100 yen higher than Yoshinoya's typical gyudon as the regular size is sold at 380 yen.
The restaurant also will prepare such dishes as butadon pork-on-rice and grilled eel bowls.
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