Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I'm very interested in what the serving sizes are like over there. In Australia, we don't have Ramen Bars, but we do have Japanese restaurants and some counters in food courts and stuff that sell ramen. I don't think it's the real deal though. But the serving sizes are like 0.o.
That being, what I consider, tiny.
What's it like over there?
They're pretty good sized, enough to fill you up. I tend to eat a lot in one sitting, and usually a bowl of ramen, a plate of gyoza (pork dumplings), and a beer overfill me nicely, though a lot of it is liquid. I've found ramen is one of the meals in Japan that aren't smaller portions. Japanese ramen doesn't really taste like the pre-packaged bowl ramen at all, which has more salt and thinner noodles and no meat.
Quote Originally Posted by David75
As a matter of fact, in Paris I go to a Vietnamese Pho restaurant were prices are from 5 to 12 € (yes...) with the average around 7.
It's small but always crowded, with 90% of customers being vietnamese...
Yikes, that's pretty expensive for pho. You can get a bowl and drink for $6 (4-5 euro) where I'm at in the states. It's funny, the owner of one of these pho shops opened an upscale Vietnamese restaurant that basically serves the same food, but charges $9-10 for the same meal.

I don't know anything about the restaurant business, so if I go through with it, I'd hire a business manager and cooks to handle the business side. I'd just finance the operation and eat up the profits myself (literally).

I wonder if associating it with Naruto will help bring in customers? I'd also seriously consider opening it near a university.