"Found," if that's the word for a chain-restuarant, a new raamen shop: Tomenbo or, in the lingua franca of the country: 東麺房 (East Noodle Factory?).
Here's a link: Tomenbo.
How was it? I'd give it an 7.5 on a scale of 1-10. The food was good (lots of vegies in the vegie raamen but it also came with tiny little chunks of what could be considered meat. Beef or chicken? Hard to tell, they were so small.), the service was okay but the decor was chain-restaurant average. Nothing too exciting. And, to make it even better, slightly above average in price. But it had a child's menu which most raamen shops don't have. On the other hand, the music was Japanese pops of the worst kind but thankfully not too loud.
A current trend in business in Japan seems to be the franchise. You can get a lot of different kinds of franchises from bookstores to, obviously, restaurants. (Although it should be added that McDonald's, up until recently, was one franchise owned by the late Fujita Den (藤田田), one of Forbes 100 richest people in the world.) The restaurant I was at today was a franchise run by what appeared to be a husband-wife team with the husband the cook and the wife the server. It would be interesting to find a raamen shop run by all women. I have found a shop that has female cooks and male servers, however.
Franchises are available, by the way. If you go to their website (address up there) you can find out all about it. If you and your computer can read Japanese, that is. And if you have the money. It costs about 2,000,000 yen plus a place to put it. (relatively cheap, really.)
Here's a link: Tomenbo.
How was it? I'd give it an 7.5 on a scale of 1-10. The food was good (lots of vegies in the vegie raamen but it also came with tiny little chunks of what could be considered meat. Beef or chicken? Hard to tell, they were so small.), the service was okay but the decor was chain-restaurant average. Nothing too exciting. And, to make it even better, slightly above average in price. But it had a child's menu which most raamen shops don't have. On the other hand, the music was Japanese pops of the worst kind but thankfully not too loud.
A current trend in business in Japan seems to be the franchise. You can get a lot of different kinds of franchises from bookstores to, obviously, restaurants. (Although it should be added that McDonald's, up until recently, was one franchise owned by the late Fujita Den (藤田田), one of Forbes 100 richest people in the world.) The restaurant I was at today was a franchise run by what appeared to be a husband-wife team with the husband the cook and the wife the server. It would be interesting to find a raamen shop run by all women. I have found a shop that has female cooks and male servers, however.
Franchises are available, by the way. If you go to their website (address up there) you can find out all about it. If you and your computer can read Japanese, that is. And if you have the money. It costs about 2,000,000 yen plus a place to put it. (relatively cheap, really.)
Peace! Like Raamen, Should be Everywhere.
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