Article: McDonald's: Food, folks, fun and photo printers.

Byline: Trine Tsouderos

Sep. 8--McDonald's is dipping its greasy golden toe into cell phone rings, CDs and digital photo printing.

Besides burgers and fries, Oak Brook's sleek new McDonald's boasts two floors, great furniture, a coffee bar, Wi-Fi access and flat-screen TVs--which on the day I visited played either McDonald's commercials or CNN's blanket coverage of the London bombings--and other technological doo-dads designed to attract young, hip customers.

Not that you'll see any of this anytime soon in your own hometown McDonald's. The Oak Brook location, near 22nd Street and Spring Road, is a test lab for the corporation's newest, ...

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