Day 8

Today we spent the entire day with the VietThai Corporation. We started the day with an introduction to the company at Hard Rock Cafe Ho Chi Minh which is owned by VietThai. The purpose of the company is to help international companies open business in Vietnam as well as a few individual projects that the company starts. Then the manager of Hard Rock Cafe talked to us about his management experience and what it is like to work for VietThai. In the afternoon we went to Highlands Coffee which was the start of the VietThai corporation. Highlands is the largest coffee chain in Vietnam however it is not international yet. I learned a lot about the challenges and benefits of opening a company in Vietnam and the creative insight it takes. Later at night we went to karaoke with some of the management employees of VietThai, it was a lot of fun and all the Vietnamese were much better singers than we were.