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Chefette Restaurants is the largest fast food restaurant chain based in the Caribbean island nation of Barbados.Currently operating throughout the island in 14 locations, Chefette is known for its broasted chicken meals as well as a local curried-'meat + vegetable' (similar to the European gyro) roll-up or wrap, locally known as a roti.
Barbados (UK: / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d ɒ s / bah-BAY-doss; US: / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d oʊ s / ⓘ bar-BAY-dohss; locally / b ɑːr ˈ b eɪ d ə s / bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915.
In the early 1990s the country's economy was hit hard when real GDP per capita declined by 5.1% per year between 1989 and 1992 partly due to the 1990 oil price spike. Barbados entered into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund financial assistance after a long and hard period of negotiations between the IMF, the government of ...
Speightstown was formally settled around 1630 and in the earliest days of settlement was Barbados's busiest port (AMS Seaport Code: 27213, -- UN/LOCODE: BB SPT [3]). Ships laden with sugar and other commodities left Speightstown bound directly for London and especially Bristol. For this reason Speightstown is sometimes known as Little Bristol.
Oistins Bay is a hamlet located southeast of Carlisle Bay, close to the southernmost point of Barbados, South Point.. It's the largest town in the Christ Church Parish, and has been (and still is) the center of a vibrant fishing community for hundreds of years.
Barbadian cuisine, also called Bajan cuisine, is a mixture of African, Portuguese, Indian, Irish, Creole, Indigenous and British background. A typical meal consists of a main dish of meat or fish, normally marinated with a mixture of herbs and spices, hot side dishes, and one or more salads.
Often known as "the Gap", Saint Lawrence Gap is located on the southern coast of Barbados along the island's Highway 7. Found between Oistins to the east and Worthing to the west, it features a 1.5-kilometer stretch of bars, hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, inns, resorts, and shops along a white powdery-sand beachfront.