Ichiran Brings Its Solo Dining Booths to Brooklyn
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEGothamist[1], 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.
Japan's tonkotsu chain opens its first restaurant in the United States, on Johnson Avenue in Bushwick, with the counter divided into one-person "flavour concentration booths". You order by marking a paper form and eat behind a partition without speaking to anyone.
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