Early on in their lives, Yuki Yoshioka and Ginta Yamaguchi knew what they wanted to do when they grew up: run their own ramen restaurant. For both, ramen is their favorite noodle, and since high school the pair worked part-time jobs at different ramen shops.
Yoshioka and Yamaguchi have been friends since junior high school, and in the first year of high school they started to give serious consideration to what they would need to set up their own shop.
They knew they would need money, experience, self-belief and a fair amount of chutzpah.