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MORÓN, February 13 (José Manuel Caraballo Bravo, APLA /
www.cubanet.org) - The two remaining private restaurants in Morón, a city
of 65,000, are not allowed to have chairs, so customers must eat while standing.
Yet patrons keep coming, allowing the restaurants to compete with five
government-run restaurants and dozens of cafeterias.
The two private restaurants are the only survivors of several that sprouted
after the start of the so-called "special period" in 1990, brought
about by the cessation of subsidies to the Cuban economy from the former
socialist bloc. Lately, entrepreneurs complain, increasing government
restrictions have driven many of the small operations out of business.
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