The Jury Box

I don’t know if jurors actually dine here, but it really would fit well with most folks’ experience in an actual jury box… slow, boring, financially burdensome.
This is the only place to eat in the courthouse. There’s literally not even a vending machine (that I could find). And it highlights some of the problems of a monopoly, including that monopolies aren’t corrected by the marketplace. The Jury Box could definitely use some corrections, particularly with respect to its:
–service/​speed/​efficiency: they have three people working and no more than two people in line. Yet it takes more than five minutes to get the daily special. WTF? If I had time to dally, I would have left the building to find something better and less expensive.
–offerings: there’s just not much here. Coffee, water, soft drinks. You can order a burger, a hot dog, or the daily special. They have a sad little salad bar, two or three muffins next to the register. Literally half or two thirds of the space available for showcasing food is totally empty.
–price: it’s easy to drop $ 9 here on the special with no drink. Come on. I pay $ 9 for fancy ass fast food at Hannah’s Bretzel and feel ripped off. This is close to extortion.
I will admit that I feel a little bad about writing this (mostly because I assume the owner lives in Hammond and for whatever reason I have a stereotype in my head that people from Hammond are long suffering but nice). But truth and justice must prevail; it’s in a federal courthouse after all.