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What is the difference between a chop bar and a restaurant?

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    • Keymaster
        forum africa 09/03/2018 at 7:16 pm #818

        Sometimes it feels great to go out with your loved ones or with your family to buy and eat outside. In Africa, you are likely to land in either a restaurant or a chop bar. Both chop bars and restaurants are places where people go to buy food and eat there. Now what is the striking difference between them?

      • Keymaster
          forum africa 30/03/2018 at 9:46 am #236

          A typical chop bar …

        • Keymaster
            forum africa 30/03/2018 at 9:47 am #237

            For those of our African brothers and sisters who do not know what a chop bar is, it is just like a restaurant; normally found in Ghana, the Ivory Coast, and other parts of West Africa.

             

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              johny 21/12/2022 at 8:04 pm #3034

              Chop bar is a restaurant where local dishes are served. Local dishes such as emotue, Tuosafi, fufu, konkonte, banku, etc. and palm nut soup, light soup, groudnut soup, etc. Chop bars are popular spots in West Africa:  Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, etc.

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                johny 19/02/2023 at 7:32 pm #3336

                Normally, restaurants serve foreign dishes. Restaurants, though they do serve local dishes, serve a variety of foreign or continental dishes.

                Also, restaurants serve many varieties of dishes than a chop bar. Chop bars normally focus on a few local dishes, say three, four, five, etc. But they do not serve more varieties than restaurants.

                At first, I do not know about today, chop bars were operated by people who were home trained to be good at preparing local dishes. Whereas restaurants were operated, normally, by school trained cooks.

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