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US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January
Knowzy writes "After five years behind a paywall, McDonalds plans to stop charging for its Wi-Fi in mid-January in the US. According to the Dallas Morning News, you aren't even required to make a purchase — 'free is free,' a spokesman said. It's also been widely reported that they won't impose time limits on your surfing. With around 20,000 free hotspots between McDonald's and Starbucks (who went free[ish] earlier this year), anyone still charging for Wi-Fi is going to look foolish, if not downright greedy."
Panera wifi is free. I just used it the other day.
Perhaps to use the wifi, but you cant sit in the building or on the lot unless you bought something. " parking for customers only"
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Is it just me, or free wifi from Starbucks is just some wishful thinking? I've traveled to San Deigo, Denver and Boston in the past week and tried on several occasions to get wifi signal. And in each case, Starbucks was requiring me to pay. I don't know why I thought it was free ... may be it was trumpeted in some earlier slashdot article?
AT&T worked out a deal where the hotspots at McDonalds are partnered up with them, so iPhone customers can automatically get signed in and use them for free. It's been that way for months now. I've used the one in my neighborhood a number of times, as well as a couple of them when I was on a road trip.
Only complaint I've had, in general, with Mc Wi-Fi is, I think someone needs to do site surveys on those things and improve the reception! I've always gotten pretty weak signals that are still generally usable, but worse than I get throughout most of my house with my own wireless router.
Yeah, but the fries are the best out there
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Free for up to 2 hours (per-day, may not be split across multiple login sessions) if you've registered one of their Starbucks stored-value cards and you've used it to make a purchase sometime within the last 30 days.
So more "free with purchase"-style.
FYI they aren't using the microwave to reheat the burger, it is to melt the cheese. No cheese, no microwave. *This is based on my experience working at BK in high school
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That's what we call "mechanically separated meat." Leftover meaty sludge pressure washed off the bones after the real meat has been stripped away. That's what they called a "Chicken McNugget" when I was growing up, though they claim that now their McNuggets are made with actual meat.
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You call those sloppy pale mini-sticks “fries”?
Here’s how real fries look like: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.gentoo%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=belgische+frieten&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0 :)
Belgian fries. In my opinion the best fries in the world. Especially if made with eastern-European potatoes (those that still taste like potatoes). If you ever get there, try them.
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