Fat Geeky Guy’s Wifi Fast Food Challenge

Where should you download while you carbo-load?

Where should you download while you carbo-load?


Besides keeping the diabetes industry in full swing, many fast food restaurants provide a vital new service: free Wifi – but which chain holds the title of the fastest fast food Wifi? Here’s the roundup for all the restaurants I tested (Yes, Maxim pays me to eat fast food – they hate me):

Starbucks

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Food: Expensive, fancy and often unpronounceable.

Wifi: Hotter wifi than their lava-like coffee. This is your best bet for streaming that Adele concert you missed. I wonder if she sang that song about getting dumped but being completely okay with it. She’s just unlucky in love, I suppose. I wonder if she’ll be at Wendy’s when I stop by there later. No, this isn’t a weight joke. It’s a well-known fact she loves Frostys. I think I read it in Spin before they went out of business. (Or maybe it was Blender.)

Calories: 1,260

Speed: 5.5 Mbps

McDonalds

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Food:  When is the McRib going to earn a permanent position on the menu? After my large #1, I needed to take a larger #2 and was barely able to us use the WiFi in the bathroom.

Wifi: Surprisingly speedy and a close 2nd to Starbucks.

Calories: 1,853

Speed: 2.3 Mbps

Burger King

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Food: Just like McDonalds, only “different.”

Wifi: The chicken tenders move faster than the Wifi.

Calories: 1,960

Speed: 0.72 Mbps

Panera Bread

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Food: Like an old folks home with hip carpet and warm bread and lots of soup.

Wifi: Amazingly slow…like an old folks home. Although after eating all those carbs, I barely noticed.

Calories: 1,830

Speed: 0.23 Mbps

Taco Bell

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Food: If you’re in Taco bell and you’re not drunk, you’ve made a series of bad, but utterly delectable, life choices.

Wifi: At these prices, it doesn’t really matter, does it?

Calories: 1,580

Speed: 0.49 Mbps

BONUS: Places where the only Wifi is your imagination.



KFC

Food: Finger licking good. My iPad looks like a grease finger painting. At least more than usual.

Wifi: No, but the bucket comes in handy as a hat, especially if you’re a short-lived Guns N’ Roses guitar player.

Calories: 1,860

Speed: 0 Mbps

Wendy’s

Food: Baconator: don’t eat when women are present. Unless it’s Adele. Then, every time you put it down between bites, she’ll adorably ask “Are you gonna finish that?”

Wifi: We had more luck trying to communicate with Dave Thomas’ ghost than getting a Wifi signal. (Too soon?)

Calories: 2,220

Speed: 0 Mbps

White Castle

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Food: No Wifi, but who cares? Belly Bombers! Where else can you order food items that come in a briefcase and have a comma in the calorie count?

Calories: 2,580

Speed: 0 Mbps

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