During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not have to give out as many free refills of coffee. This policy by the fast food chain is the reason the jury awarded $2.7 million dollars in punitive damages in the McDonald’s hot coffee case. Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for their inappropriate business practice.
EVERY coffee shop overheats the drinks in the UK and it’s infuriating. Every chain coffee just tastes like scorched milk and burnt beans and you can’t drink it for 30 mins.
I’m unsure whether, unlike this case, they serve it hot enough that if you spill it, your labia fuses together from the heat of the burns. Horrifying.
It is less negligent to hand boiling water to you over a counter than it is to pass it down to you into a vehicle where you are seatbelted in place.
That was part of the case
Everyone else has finished their drinks half hour ago and I’m still sipping on my black coffee trying not to burn myself…
You know how you know if someone drinks black coffee? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
If only I was vegan too.
I switched to iced coffee years ago for precisely this reason and never looked back. I’d rather have watered down coffee than sit there for half an hour waiting for it to cool. I have an ice tray for big cubes that don’t melt as fast, so I freeze coffee in them. That way I don’t water down my coffee at home and it’s perfect.