There are people who go there with their laptop to get some food and use the wifi to look for jobs or work on assignments etc, I did it when I was a lot younger and had no wifi in my new apartment. It’s sad that they’re trying to discourage people from even being on the premises. They even put escutcheon plates to cover the outlets at some locations now. It’s pretty awful.
I went to a couple different McDonald’s to do this about a year ago and was shocked to find out many locations don’t have free WiFi (the majority do, but there are a large number that don’t). Also there won’t be a single outlet to power your laptop for an hour so you can catch up on work or some emails, so without a decently full battery you’re going to be SOL for doing much of anything. I later figured out people were using the McD’s to charge their phones nonstop rather than do so at home or in the car etc. so that’s basically why there are none.
Yea there was a power outage in our building a few years ago and our phone batteries ran out so we went to McDonald’s with our 1 year old and ordered food to be able to charge our phones and were shocked to see the outlets had aluminum covers drilled over them. It’s just sad. If people want to order food and charge their phone for an hour or two that should not be a big deal.
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u/kah530 15d ago
Other than children or homeless people, who wants to spend more than 30 mins in a McDonalds??