Your Ramen Bar, Without the Kitchen

Each machine cooks one bowl at a time, in 3 to 5 minutes, so count how many guests you want cooking at once at your busiest hour. Ramen bars inside a café, club or market usually run 3 to 5. Restaurants built on self-serve, like the ones in Albuquerque and El Dorado Hills, run 6.

Many owners start smaller and add machines once the line forms. El Dorado Hills went from 1 to 6 in three weeks.

Each machine is 9.5 in wide, 16.5 in deep and 18.9 in tall, so a row of four fits on a few feet of counter. Water comes from a jug or a direct water line.

It plugs into a standard outlet and draws 1,350 W, about 12 amps. If you run several on one wall, have an electrician check how many your circuits can carry.

No. Guests pick a pack, set the bowl on the machine and it cooks. Your staff restock, take payment and wipe down. There is no cooking job to fill and no dishes to wash.

Send it back within 30 days in the original box and we refund you. We send the return label, and there is no restocking fee.

Yes. The price drops with each machine you add: 2 for $670 each, 3 for $645 each, 4 for $620 each, and 5 or more for $595 each. Need 6 or more, or a written quote? Ask us.

Most ramen machines cook and stop there. This one scans the pack and sets the water and cook time itself (100+ ramen recognized), can take payment at the machine so it sells without a cashier, and gets new features and barcodes through free over-the-air updates. You change its menu from any browser.

It is also a hot water dispenser and an induction cooktop, and one machine works with a water jug or a water line. If it ever needs replacing, the new one ships from our US warehouse, not an overseas repair queue.

The Pro is ETL Listed for safety and ETL Sanitation listed to NSF/ANSI 4, the standard for commercial cooking equipment. We send the spec sheet for your inspector.

Rules for selling hot food differ by city and county, so check with your local health department before you open.

We pick 8 ramen that sell. After you order, we email you a link that puts all 8 in your Amazon cart in one tap. A ramen rack, trays, topping cups and forks are one more tap. Here is a sample order.

You can also sell any packaged ramen, bought wherever you like. Over 100 are recognized by barcode. Anything else cooks with a tap on a preset.

No. Induction-ready pots and bowls work too: a flat bottom about 5 to 8 in (12 to 20 cm) across that a magnet sticks to. Our paper bowls are there so customers cook and eat from the same bowl and nobody washes a pot. 15 bowls come with the machine. After that it is about $0.57 a bowl, less when you order more cases. A case of 300 is $170, shipped free. Lids are optional.

It is not a plain paper bowl. It has five layers made for induction cooking: a food-grade coating on the inside, an aluminum layer that the machine heats, and paperboard for insulation and strength. There is no wax.

It is rated up to 212°F, the temperature of boiling water, and each bowl is used once and thrown away. SGS tested it to US FDA 21 CFR 175.300 for food contact. We send the bowl spec sheet if you want it.

At your register, the same way they pay for anything else. That is all you need.

If you want customers to pay at the machine too, you can turn on pay-by-phone. It is optional, has no monthly fee, and costs 2.5% + $0.10 a sale.

Yes. Some shops let customers cook their own bowl. Others keep it behind the counter and staff press start. Either way it is a few taps.

It has a 1-year warranty. If we cannot fix a problem remotely, we replace the whole machine. No repair shop, no waiting on parts.

It ships free from our US warehouses. Most orders arrive 3 to 8 business days after they ship, depending on where you are.

Preset cooking, hot water and the induction cooktop all work offline. Wi-Fi is needed for barcode scan-to-cook, menu updates and payment at the machine.

Anything that cooks in boiling water: udon, pho, mac and cheese, oatmeal and more. The induction plate also works as a cooktop with your own pot or pan.