International Fast Food

May 23, 2013

Introduction

The United States will be managing the fast food restaurant chain that will be opening in following countries: United Arab Emeritus (UAE), Israel, Mexico, and China. We have been cleared for business and will need to meet with all the players to devise a plan of construction and set some dates in order for us to have a goal of completion. The US management team will come up with a name and exactly what the menu items will be.

Food Served

The type of food that will be served has been discussed among the US management team. The name will be Trios and the menu will consist of burgers, chicken, and tacos. Since they all consist of the same fixings it should be easy to satisfy the regular fast food person of their appetite.

Who is doing what?

According to the verbal agreement of the construction of Trios the four countries involved has agreed to help out in the following of ways: UAE will finance the project. China and Mexico will provide all the materials to get started. Israel will provide the engineering and the technology to get the ball rolling and fine tune the machinery needed in the process. The labor of course will be provided locally in each area and the US will manage the process of hiring.

Discussion meeting

The meeting is called to order in the US headquarters of Trios Inc. to meet, greet, and discuss the construction planning. All countries personnel are in attendance and counted for but are staying within the confines of their own people. The cultural phenomenon at play is Intercultural Awareness. Intercultural awareness (IA) is the "cognitive aspect of intercultural communication competence" that helps individuals understand one another (Samovar, Porter, & McDaniel, 2005). Therefore since they are not too familiar with anyone from the other cultures they tend to stay within their own.

Lack of Communication

The reason for the lack of communications & interactions among the group is due to their newness of each other. The lack of trust sets in on new comers when they don't know the other person or their culture until they get to know them better. Being as they are all new to each other they have not found any commonalities. What I know about each of them that may or may not have a hand in bringing them closer together is:

China

China has overcome many barriers when it comes to their economy but still has a ways to go. Since the late 1970s China has moved from a closed, centrally planned system to a more market-oriented one that plays a major global role - in 2010 China became the world's largest exporter. (TWFB) China is second to the US in in the value of services it produces.(TWFB) China is a world leader in gross value of industrial output; machine building; food processing; & transportation equipment among other things. China is a communist state and its civil law influenced by Soviet and continental European civil law systems; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; note - criminal procedure law revised in early 2012. Education is required and free for Chinese citizens age 6 to 15 though parents must pay small fees for books and uniforms. Chinese children all get a primary and middle school public education. After middle school, parents must pay for public high school though the majority of families in cities can afford the modest fees. In rural parts of China, many students stop their education at age 15. (TWFB)

Mexico

The market-oriented structural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s transformed Mexico's economy from a highly protectionist, public-sector-dominated system to a generally open, deregulated "emerging market. Despite continuing problems exacerbated by low investor confidence, analysts agreed that Mexico's economy in the mid-1990s was fundamentally sound and capable of long-term expansion.(ITA) Mexico has a federal republic type government and civil law systems with US constitutional law theory influence; judicial review of legislative acts. Mexico has a free market economy in the trillion dollar class. It contains a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector (TWFB) The Mexican education system includes a Primary, Middle, & Secondary grade levels, similar