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Bulletproof Subways A Sign Of Violent Times?

ChezC3

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While out on an unrelated assignment, CBS 2 investigative reporter Dave Savini decided to stop by a South Side Subway sandwich shop for a meal.

Savini was struck by the fact that the counter of the store at 116th Street and South Halsted was encased in bullet-proof glass.

Such a sight would be common at crime magnets like gas stations or currency exchanges, but a Subway?

The store was clean and looked just like any other well-run Subway restaurant, except for the bullet-proof protection for the employees and lack of a bathroom for customers.

Bulletproof Subways A Sign Of Violent Times? « CBS Chicago

This is common as restaurants are usually prime targets for robbery. While I never had a restaurant of mine robbed, one of the stores of an organization I was employed with in Merriville IN ( a south eastern suburb of Chicago) was robbed by gunpoint several times in the space of 1 1/2 years.

McD's BK's, Harold's Chicken, Taco Bell, KFC, Church's, Long John Silver's, Brown's, Popeyes, Wendy's -- all I've seen with some form of BP glass.

This isn't a new phenom, but it is a sad one...
 
In Iowa it is against the law for a restaurant to not have a restroom.
 
In Iowa it is against the law for a restaurant to not have a restroom.

It's becoming for difficult for alot of places to have them, especially in my town, because of the drinking culture, public bathrooms become a hub of just bad activity, drug taking, violence not to mention the possible cleanup of vomit and drunk assholes that think it's funny to **** on the floor, this all happens.

In downtown areas, especially many hotels shut down their bathrooms after a certain time both because of drunken revellers and the homeless.

We had to lock our bathrooms down on new years eve, otherwise we would have had hundreds of drunk people in the lobby lining up, which is a powder keg.
 
A hotel is different, and I understand your reasoning.
 
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