Guest nellie2 Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 :o OMG!!! You still won't get me in one of those places!McDonald's is to install wireless broadband hotspots in its restaurants in a bid to attract more business customers.By the end of March, Wi-Fi laptop and PDA owners will be able to connect to the internet at 561 McDonald's restaurants while tucking into their Big Mac and fries.Most of the BT Openzone hotspots are to be put into drive-thru restaurants, popular with business travellers, as well as in 11 of its largest metropolitan fast food stores, including those in London's Oxford Street, Liverpool Street and The Strand.Steve Tiley, head of management information systems at McDonald's, said: "Our strategy this year is to attract business users. We've found that drive-thru and service station restaurants are extremely popular with our business customers on the move."scource Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 Yup talked to many yanks that have it there.... no ta :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 If they had a host of naked Dollie birds in McDonald's, I would still not set foot inside the place. I have far too much respect for my stomach to ever eat there, I would rather go hungry. There is nothing wrong with GOOD burgers, in fact I make them myself, but the thought of skin, hair, cows lips and other sundry unsavoury bits and pieces from old milking cows makes me shudder. Witness the unfortunate number of YOUNG CJD victims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 skin, hair, cows lips and other sundry unsavoury bits and pieces from old milking cows makes me shudder.About twenty five years ago, I worked at a company next door to a very large food processing plant. They processed and dried meat and vegetable products - they called it retexturing for the animal products and reconstructing for the vegetables.Amongst other things, there were lorry loads of partially skinned and de-hoofed dead cattle brought in every day to be retextured (wonderful euphemism, that). The only things that were not used in the retexturing were the teeth (they blunted the grinding mechanisms) and the fat. The fat was sold on to soap makers. The teeth went into landfill. The smell from this plant was horrendous.On a slightly different subject, one of their less successful developments was a reconstructed Brussels sprout. In this they took whole sprout and cabbage plants, ground them up and processed them into a sort of papery material. This was rolled up, the roll sliced into inch (or so) lengths and put into a press to form an approximately round, sprout shaped ball. One of the first consumer trials of these were carried out at the company Christmas lunch (we shared the canteen with them). The "things" looked like pieces of rolled up green toilet paper. They tasted like it had been used.Anyway, back to the subject. I have never been into a McDonald's. I have never been into any burger place. I would never go into a burger place. Like andsome, I like to know what I'm eating and the thought of consuming the nether regions of cattle of either sex and other unsavoury parts doesn't inspire me one bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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