Chef’s Island’s secret ingredient for a Stunning Japanese Store:
Eurus Theme

Creating a website that resonates with customers is a challenging game. And the game now is even harder when entering a market as unique and culturally rich as Japan. This challenge was exciting and daunting at the same time for Chef’s Island, a premium online store specializing in high-quality culinary tools. They are confident that the quality of their products can meet Japanese market demands. But, to “touch” the success in building an online presence, they needed more than just a theme: They needed a personalized, localized approach to building their Shopify store. That’s where the Eurus Theme stepped in.

The expectations:

Choosing Eurus Theme to start, Chef’s Island has a solid trust that the theme can meet these requirements:

Japan-Focused B2B Shopify

Build a Shopify website that has an organized system to serve B2B customers in Japan.

Intuitive and Automated Platform

The website functions must be easy to use, flexible, and automatic so that it is convenient to manage, and gather information.

Japanese relevant design

The new website design must fit Japanese culture, and be easy for customers to navigate.

Our solutions:

1. Make a plan tailored to the Japanese market:

To build a successful Japanese online store like Chef’s Island, Eurus must go beyond just creating a website. We need to build a digital ‘house’ that reflects Japanese culture and resonates with local customers. Our mission is clear: to deliver a culturally relevant online experience.

Understanding Chef’s Island:

To offer the most personalized and effective advice, Eurus focused on learning the background of the client. Chef’s Island, part of Deniau Strategic Consulting (founded in 1977), specializes in promoting foreign brands in Japan. With expertise in high-end kitchenware and wines, Deniau offers comprehensive services, from staffing to logistics.

Understanding the Japanese Market:

The Eurus team conducted thorough research on the Japanese e-commerce market. This included analyzing target audiences, identifying competitors in the same niche, and understanding any relevant cultural considerations.

Collaborating with Chef’s Island:

To understand Chef’s Island’s vision perfectly, the Eurus team held several virtual meetings. These in-depth discussions ensured we understood their specific needs and desired functionalities for the store: serving a B2B customer base, making every function on the website automatic, and more.

2. Build a Japanese-Inspired Storefront: Design & Language

Design 🎨

Armed with both Chef’s Island’s vision and insights from market research, the Eurus team crafted a design draft for the entire store. The design is created with several requirements in mind:

🎯 The design must bring a friendly look to most Japanese users.

🎯 It needed to embrace minimalism and simplicity, two core elements of Japanese aesthetics while ensuring ease of navigation.

🎯 It must deliver the Chef’s Island brand identity.

🎯 Finally, the design had to seamlessly integrate Japanese language support, ensuring that text and visual elements worked harmoniously across both Japanese and English versions of the store.

Language 🔠

Entering the Japanese market is a complex task, and language plays a crucial role. Chef’s Island needed a website that wasn’t just translated but felt authentically Japanese. Eurus went above and beyond by:

🌸 Every setting in the Theme Editor can be shown in the Japanese language → making it incredibly easy for Chef’s Island staff to change their Eurus theme layout and function, without any language barriers.

🌸 The development team put in great effort to overcome language barriers and customize the store’s functions for Chef’s Island.

🌸 Supporting the Japanese language use at any place on the storefront.

3. Give Chef’s Island personalized features.

Always striving to offer more than just the basics, we customized the theme code to create features that catered to Chef’s Island’s needs. To meet Chef’s Island’s high level of customization, Eurus team enhanced the function by implementing pop-ups to display custom options. This approach not only ensures clarity but also keeps the product page clean and uncluttered.

Not just overcome the 100 variant limits from Shopify, Eurus helped Chef’s Island build a popup for their customers to easily choose how they want their chef shirt to look with sewing options. Therefore, any buyer now can just click, type, click, and voila! They made an order following their preferred choices!

By going the extra mile and creating custom features, plus the compatibility of Eurus with various Shopify applications such as BSS: B2B Wholesale Solution or B: Request a Quote, Hide Price, etc. This helped Chef’s Island build a website that was not only beautiful but also perfectly suited for their B2B needs in the Japanese market.

The Results

Let’s tour around the Shopify store of Chef’s Island and see how the website uses the functions from Eurus Theme:

Strong impression with SLIDESHOW

The dynamic banner appears dominantly right on the home page and helps Chef’s Island tell its story in limited spaces.

Eurus Theme allows customization to the max. So the store can put their text and button on any positions on the images, making sure they are easy to see and click!

No more guessing with
SIZE CHART

Right on the product page, customers can have very detailed guidance about the size of that product. This helps the buyers easily know which size is for them.

In the long run, the Size Chart can reduce the amount of work needed for customer service and return requests due to wrong size selection.

Manage large catalog with MEGA MENU

Offering a wide range of products, the Chef’s Island store must focus on conveying the ideas of their product in the most visually appealing and easy-to-navigate way. The 7 different layouts of the mega menu offered by the Eurus Theme help them significantly by clearly categorizing, adding images, banners, compacted lists, etc.

Conclusion: A Blueprint for Success in Japan

Since adopting the Eurus theme, Chef’s Island has seen remarkable results. The bilingual capabilities and mobile-first design have helped the store tap into Japan’s sophisticated consumer base, increasing both engagement and sales.

For brands looking to expand into non-English speaking markets, Chef’s Island’s story is proof of the importance of using the right Shopify theme. Eurus, more than a theme, has become a partner of Chef’s Island. We offer the versatility, functionality, and aesthetic appeal needed to succeed in Japan’s competitive eCommerce landscape.

Ready to take your Shopify store global? Explore the Eurus Theme and discover how it can help you break into new markets with confidence.

Chef’s Island’s secret ingredient for a Stunning Japanese Store: Eurus Theme