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Gothamist, publishing on 17 October 2016, gives the day two days ahead: the shop opens "Wednesday, October 19th", open 11am to 11pm and taking no reservations. Wikipedia's[2] article on Ichiran puts the Brooklyn opening in November 2016; the contemporary local report, written from the opening announcement, governs over a later summary.
For the chain behind the booths: founded in Fukuoka in 1960 as the Futaba Ramen stall and renamed Ichiran in 1966, past 65 branches in Japan by 2017. It describes the system in the same terms as the Brooklyn coverage - "served to guests in individual booths behind a curtain to allow the diner to focus on the ramen", with refills ordered "by filling in their extra order on a paper form and pressing a button". It dates the Bushwick opening to November 2016, a month later than the contemporary local report, and adds that the site is a noodle factory as well as a restaurant.[1]
Ichiran's own page for the Brooklyn shop, which is the authority for the address (374 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206) and the current trading hours. It settles a discrepancy: Gothamist's[1] 2016 report gave the address as 386 Johnson Avenue, and the operator's own number is the one this pin is geocoded to.
Untapped New York's piece on the Bushwick shop and its solo booths, and the source[1] of this pin's four photographs of the partitioned counters.
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