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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...