Chiptop

A chiptop is a type of fast food restaurant found typically in Kuboia which are heavily inspired by friterie restaurants found in Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

Several friterie-inspired restaurants were opened in Kuboia in the early 1990s, typically by Dutch and Belgian immigrants. Eventually, they began to have enough differences to distinguish themselves from the type of restaurants found in their home countries. The "chiptop" name began to be used in the media around autumn 1995.

Chiptop restaurants are mostly in the "quick-serve" style, with food being allowed to be consumed either in the restaurant or as a takeaway. Unlike other type of restaurants, chiptop restaurants usually have thick bean bags as chairs and large velvet blocks as tables. They particularly serve chips (french fries), though they serve other meals too, such as frankfuter sausages, chicken skewers and meatballs. Chiptop restaurants usually sell discount-brand, or even their own brands of soft drinks, and barely any sell drinks from more popular brands such as Coca Cola and Pepsi.

Though not as prominent, chiptop restaurants, and chip/french fry-orientated restaurants with a Kuboian style have been operating in some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Brazil, since the mid and late 1990s.