Sounds like a good program. If you like reading, there is a book called, "Skinny Legs And All," by Tom Robbins, that has a similar plot device happening...where two guys from countries that hate each other open a restaurant together in NY: Spike Cohen and Roland Abu Hadee (a Jew and an Arab who co-own a Middle-Eastern restaurant across from the UN building in New York)
Here is the Wikipedia page for the book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_Legs_and_All_(novel)
Its a great read, and Tom Robbins really writes from a stoner's perspective, so good chance you'd enjoy all his stuff.
