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    The document discusses how tastes and dining etiquette are changing globally as cultures adapt to each other. It provides examples of restaurants adapting their food and service to attract different customers, from Asian restaurants in the UK offering chopsticks to attract Western customers to a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo serving Italian food that can be eaten with chopsticks. Business people can learn about foreign cultures by experiencing the local cuisine, researching cultural norms, and observing polite behaviors when dining out.

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    The document discusses how tastes and dining etiquette are changing globally as cultures adapt to each other. It provides examples of restaurants adapting their food and service to attract different customers, from Asian restaurants in the UK offering chopsticks to attract Western customers to a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo serving Italian food that can be eaten with chopsticks. Business people can learn about foreign cultures by experiencing the local cuisine, researching cultural norms, and observing polite behaviors when dining out.

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    The document discusses how tastes and dining etiquette are changing globally as cultures adapt to each other. It provides examples of restaurants adapting their food and service to attract different customers, from Asian restaurants in the UK offering chopsticks to attract Western customers to a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo serving Italian food that can be eaten with chopsticks. Business people can learn about foreign cultures by experiencing the local cuisine, researching cultural norms, and observing polite behaviors when dining out.

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    RESTAURANTS

    Lesson 3.

    I. Translate the following words and word combinations into


    Ukrainian.
    1. Taste –
    2. Dining etiquette –
    3. Founder –
    4. Noodle –
    5. Insist on –
    6. Chopsticks –
    7. Fork and spoon –
    8. Provide –
    9. General manager –
    10. Believe –
    11. Customer –
    12. Launch –
    13. Successful –
    14. To pour –
    15. Accept –
    16. Develop –
    17. On the one hand –
    18. On the other hand –
    19. Sophisticated –
    20. To serve –

    II. Look through the article below and complete this fact file.
    Founder/ Name of Location Type of food
    Manager restaurant served
    Alan Yau ………………… ………………… …………………
    1 .2 3
    …………………. Brasserie Roux ………………… …………………
    .4 .5 6
    Noboyuki ………………… USA ………………….
    Matsuhisa .7 8
    Chop Stick ………………… …………………
    .9 10

    Learning chopsticks
    In the West, as well as in Asia, tastes and dining etiquette are changing.
    ‘There is more understanding of different cuisines,’ says Alan Yau, the
    innovative and successful founder of the Wagamama chain of Asian noodle
    restaurants in the UK. ‘But people still don’t understand etiquette very well. For
    example, in one of my Thai restaurants, Western diners insist on using
    chopsticks. They don’t want to eat the Thai way, just with fork and spoon,’ says
    Yau, ‘so we give them chopsticks. Then Thai people say we are not a ‘real’
    Thai restaurant because we provide chopsticks.’
    Hugues Jaquier, general manager of London’s exclusive Hotel Sofitel St
    James and Brasserie Roux, believes people are only beginning to understanding
    other cultures. He is shocked when customers put ketchup on traditional French
    dish, or when US guests insist on drinking coffee with their meals.
    The Japanese are leading other Asian cultures in adapting their own
    traditions. ‘When Noboyuki Matsuhisa launched the Nobu restaurants in the
    US, he quickly learned what Americans like,’ says Laura Holland, translator of
    the successful Nobu cookbook. For example, at the beginning, Nobu disliked
    seeing diners pour lots of sauce on their rice and sushi, but then he accepted it
    and he even developed a special mix for customers to pour.
    ‘On the other hand, in Japan, the more sophisticated, restaurant-going crowd
    are very open to different styles and trends,’ says Holland. The ‘Japanisation’ of
    Western food and etiquette began many years ago. In Tokyo’s chic Ginza
    district, for example, an Italo-Japanese restaurant called Chop Stick serves
    innovative Italian food that people can eat with chopsticks.

    III. Match these words (1 – 6) to their meanings (a – f). Use a dictionary


    to help you. (Поєднайте слова згідно їх значень).
    1) Etiquette a) Change something to make it suitable for a new
    situation
    2) Innovative b) The way a situation is developing or changing
    3) Insist (on c) Knowing a lot about fashion and culture
    doing
    something)
    4) Adapt d) New, original
    5) Sophisticated e) The rules of polite behavior
    6) trend f) keep doing something that other people don’t
    like

    IV. Decide whether each statement is true or false.


    1. Alan Yau says that tastes in food are changing in Asia only. (false)
    2. Thai people do not understand etiquette very well, according to Yau.
    3. Hugues Jaquier finds it strange that some people drink coffee with their
    meals.
    4. Nobu adapts his dishes for American customers.
    5. Japanese restaurant goers do not like to try different cuisines.
    6. In Japan, adapting Western food and etiquette is not something new.
    V. 1. Discuss how business people can learn about foreign cultures. Make a
    list of three practical ideas.

    2. Imagine some foreign business people ask you about the main rules of
    dining etiquette in your country. What do you tell them? Make a list of three
    points.

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