Bu siness skills: b et ter me etings 1 — 21 business englisch bu sin es s e n g L is

From dreams to reality
Suddenly, their dreamy chatter became reality, and they needed 
to come up with a serious business proposal. Reinhard Stein is 
an architect, with his own London-based business, 3s (Simple 
Space Solutions), meaning that the couple could design exactly 
the hut and beer garden they had imagined. 
The bigger question was whether the Brits would go for this 
intercultural exchange. Would it attract enough people inter-
ested in eating Bavarian 
Wurst
, 
Sauerkraut
and 
Obatzda mit Brezel
— and, of course, beer — all in a Bavarian beer-garden setting? 
Bele and Reinhard Stein could remember the exciting, op-
timistic days of the late 1990s in Britain. Tony Blair was prime 
minister and a strong supporter of the European Union. When 
a number of central and eastern European countries joined the 
EU in 2004, Britain — unlike Germany and most other countries 
— welcomed Poles, Hungarians and Slovaks with open borders 
and open arms.
A love of Britain
Bringing Bavarian beer-garden culture to London was the 
Steins’ small contribution to inter-European cooperation. Bele 
had visited the UK as a schoolchild and was enthralled with 
the country. Reinhard, who had worked as an architect on the
Bundestag and on Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne, wanted 
to improve his English and, at the same time, challenge himself 
as an architect in another country. 
chatter
,
Gerede
ease of setting up a 
business 
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entrepreneur
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,
Unternehmer(in)
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