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Ginza Renoir
Ginza Renoir (銀座ルノアール) is a franchise that operates a chain of coffee shops, bars, and restaurants in Japan. Established in 1989, it currently operates over a hundred coffee shops in the Tokyo metropolitan area. With furnishings characteristic of the Victorian era, Ginza Renoir seeks to recreate a nostalgic ambience of a bygone age.

History
Ginza Renoir's predecessor was a rice cracker store in central Tokyo known as Hanami Senbei. It launched a coffee shop in Yotsuya in October 1957. Later, it expanded into the coffee shop business, opening its first store in Nihonbashi[3]. With its roots as a senbei (rice cracker) store, Ginza Renoir originally served Japanese tea and senbei. Shokuro Komiyama, it store's founder, said that he chose a lobby-style coffee shop design because financial constraints. However, the thick carpeting and spacious seating was apparently well received and this style has been de rigueur at many Ginza Renoir shops since 1965. In 1964 the parent company was capitalized at 10 million yen and its Nihonbashi branch was opened. In 1979 they reorganized and rebranded as Ginza Renoir Co. Capital, increasing their capital to 73.5 million yen. By July 1983 they boasted a hundred branches in the Kanto region.

In November 1989 the company's stock was registered with the Japan Securities Dealers Association as an over-the-counter stock. In 2004 they switched their stock listings from the Japan Securities Dealers Association to the JASDAQ. Moreover, with the merger of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges in 2013, the company became listed as a standard company on the JASDAQ. In 2018 Cafe Renoir began handling credit cards and electronic payment service and that year they also started rebranding their "Cafe Renoir" shops.

Current businesses