After reading about it on Brand Eating (via OC Register), FOODBEAST ventured to Laguna Niguel in south Orange County to try the concept ourselves. The newly redesigned, almost-too-swanky-to-be-a-McDonald's, space was decked with BYOB signage and a green wall highlighting the custom iPad ordering system — a system which, oddly enough, was not connected to the main McDonald's POS, and instead required employees with mobile tablets to copy our orders down, and then send them over to the main counter. These tablets, moreover, were not working when we visited, so everything had to be written down by hand. (But hey, that's what tests are for, right?)