McDonald's has already built Wi-Fi in 350 U.K. stores and has a total of 561 planned: It also is introducing fixed Internet terminals ad PlayStations.
But the more interesting technology implementations are aimed at boosting productivity. Many of them involve wireless, though this article doesn't include many specifics about which applications will use which type of network. 225 managers and other mobile workers will use smartphones instead of laptops and mobile phones and they'll use both Wi-Fi and GPRS connections. That change is expected to save £600 per employee.