WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	Fast food restaurant to be cyber-cafe (Hartford-AP) _ Would you like Internet access with that burger and fries? Fast food giant Burger King is opening a new franchise in Hartford with a high-tech twist. Along with the Whoppers, the downtown store will offer customers the World Wide Web. Two Internet surfing stations will be featured in the new Burger King, with the possibility of adding up to 20 terminals. The 60-seat restaurant will be the company's first Internet store. Customers purchasing Burger King combo meals will be allowed 15 minutes of "filtered" Internet surfing. There will be no adult content allowed, and no sending and receiving of e-mail, said Joel M. Rieger, vice president of Surveillance Technologies Group, a subsidiary of Privid Eye Systems Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is installing the Hartford restaurant's high-tech surveillance systems and Internet. 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. That is is expected to be up by summer. "This is Hartford getting national attention," said Ruth Schaefer, a co-owner of the Corning Building where the restaurant is housed, and the one largely responsible for wooing Burger King back to downtown Hartford. "This is wonderful for Hartford." Burger King says it has no plans to add Internet access to any of its 10,300 other restaurants, said Charles Nicolas, spokesman for the Miami-based corporation. "We'll evaluate it as it moves forward," he says. "We look to our customers to determine if they have a need or use for it, or they don't." Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Fast food restaurant to be cyber-cafe
(Hartford-AP) _ Would you like Internet access with that burger and fries?

Fast food giant Burger King is opening a new franchise in Hartford with a high-tech twist.

Along with the Whoppers, the downtown store will offer customers the World Wide Web.

Two Internet surfing stations will be featured in the new Burger King, with the possibility of adding up to 20 terminals. The 60-seat restaurant will be the company's first Internet store.

Customers purchasing Burger King combo meals will be allowed 15 minutes of "filtered" Internet surfing. There will be no adult content allowed, and no sending and receiving of e-mail, said Joel M. Rieger, vice president of Surveillance Technologies Group, a subsidiary of Privid Eye Systems Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is installing the Hartford restaurant's high-tech surveillance systems and Internet.

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. That is is expected to be up by summer.

"This is Hartford getting national attention," said Ruth Schaefer, a co-owner of the Corning Building where the restaurant is housed, and the one largely responsible for wooing Burger King back to downtown Hartford. "This is wonderful for Hartford."

Burger King says it has no plans to add Internet access to any of its 10,300 other restaurants, said Charles Nicolas, spokesman for the Miami-based corporation.

"We'll evaluate it as it moves forward," he says. "We look to our customers to determine if they have a need or use for it, or they don't."

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