Cuban enterpreneur Tomas Mayedo (R) eats lunch at his Magno Restaurat in Guaimaro January 4, 2012. The privately owned restaurant is the most luxurious place in Guaimaro, just one of many small poor and dusty towns along Cuba's sparsely traveled central highway. Mayedo is a local boy who once did jail time for involuntary manslaughter but now, in just over a year as an entrepreneur, is a big success. The eatery is one of more than 1,000 home-based restaurants, or paladares, that have opened on the Communist-run island since restrictions on small private businesses were loosened in late 2010, as part of a broader reform of the Soviet-style economy undertaken by President Raul Castro. Picture taken January 4, 2012. REUTERS/MARC FRANK (CUBA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD POLITICS)