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Burger King to offer Internet Access

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-it-your-way dept.

Mockingbird writes "The Associated Press is reporting today that Burger King plans to offer internet access from up to 20 workstations at a franchise in Hartford, CT. Value meal purchasers get 15 free minutes, but no porn and no e-mail. Have it your way, indeed. " If I mega size it can I have a half hour?

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  1. Re:!Fast food by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    The BK on Lower Broadway near Wall Street in NYC gives you a password with your receipt.
    It expires after 15 mins.
    You need a $5 minimum purchase for more net time.
    Who's gonna eat $20/hour in Whoppers ?

  2. Re:!Fast food by jandrese · · Score: 3

    It might be a good way to read Slashdot when you stop for lunch. Just stop in, read a couple of articles and responses while you eat your burger and fries, and get back to work/on the road in 15 mins. Basically, it's a way to read a newspaper or whatever while you eat.

    I'm just worried about the condition of the keyboard/mouse on the computer after thousands of average people surf on them while eating greasy food. They would accumulate keyboard plaque at an alaming rate.

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  3. WorkSpace On Demand is a great choice by timur · · Score: 3
    WSOD was designed for situations like this. Create an environment that's the same for multiple people. Don't let them screw up the installed software. Don't use a local hard drive except for caching web pages. And the recently release 2.0 is way easier to set up than 1.0.

    For more information on WSOD, check out http://www.software.ibm.com/network/ workspace/. A list of features:

    • Helps reduce cost of ownership through centralized control
    • Provides a standardized environment that can be tailored to the needs of each user
    • Helps increase productivity and reduce user training time
    • Allows software updates and provides configuration capability from servers rather than on every client
    • Supports existing workstation hardware, applications, network infrastructure and new Java network computing applications
    • Includes broad support for clients: IBM Network Stations, Windows 95 and Windows NT
    • Is Tivoli Ready
    • Is Year 2000 ready


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  4. B.Y.O. Hardware? by ewhac · · Score: 3

    So what's to prevent an enterprising soul from coming in, yanking the blue cable from the PC and plugging it in to their Ethernet-capable laptop, and side-stepping all the ads and other bullsh*t that's sure to be on the BK-PC? (It wouldn't be hard to discover the IP address of the PC and reconfigure the laptop accordingly.)

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  5. !Fast food by atw · · Score: 4

    The idea is dumb for this type of business. Burger King, McDonalds et al are supposed to be fast food. How many times did you use the Net for only 10-15 minutes? Now exclude checks for an E-mail.
    What if people would love this feature so much that they will keep surfing more then 15 mins? How they are gonna to enforce the limits? Fast food places are making their money on FAST rotation of people -- got your food, eat it and go away. This is not cafe where you can sit, drink coffee and enjoy your Quake session. It is not gonna work for the fast food chains.



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  6. Re:No e-mail? by codejnki · · Score: 3

    If I was at a fast food joint, only had fifteen minuets at the net, they only thing I'd be interested in is checking my e-mail. I bet they would set up dumb NT stations that only had Exploder.

    If by some mirical we were given access to a telnet program I could log on to my server and check my mail there. This is idotic personally.
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  7. LIES! by TishWilliams · · Score: 3

    No way that this is the *first* BK. There's a guy in NYC who's got two Burger Kings online. 3Com did a deal to put Web cams in the store in the financial district. I went there. Here's the picture from the 3com webcam:
    HTTP://www.burgercam.com/pcard/3KDKEZ3BX6.htm

  8. BK on the Internet bandwagon by StaticLimit · · Score: 3

    I don't really see the point of 15 minutes of net access with no email (I guess I could eat a burger and skim Slashdot), but the important thing is that they used the words "Internet" and "World Wide Web" in a press release. Their stock should go through the roof! (*snicker*)

    Quoting the article:
    "Also planned is a Webcam where Internet surfers can call up Hartford's Burger King Web site and see a live transmission of action in the restaurant."

    A live transmission of all the "action"? What action?!?

    I say we just file this one under clueless suits use nifty buzzwords and waste bandwidth...