Represented businesses[edit]
A Baskin-Robbins ice cream store, which opened in the 1980s, was the first franchise business on the base.[citation needed] In 1986, Guantanamo became host to the first and only McDonald's restaurant within Cuba.[55][56]
A Subway sandwich shop was opened in November 2002.[57] Other fast food outlets have followed. These fast food restaurants are on base, and not accessible to Cubans. It has been reported that prisoners cooperating with interrogations have been rewarded with Happy Meals from the McDonald's located on the mainside of the base.[58]
In 2004, a combined KFC & A&W restaurant was opened at the bowling alley and a Pizza Hut Express at the Windjammer Restaurant.[59] There is also a Taco Bell, and the Triple C shop that sells Starbucks coffee and Breyers ice cream. All the restaurants on the installation are franchises owned and operated by the Department of the Navy.[60]
All proceeds from these restaurants are used to support morale, welfare, and recreation (MWR) activities for service personnel and their families.[61]
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