How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment

Re:How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment by joezydeco on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:26PM (#7727374)

Having worked in an actual McDonald's store back in those days, the holding temperatures on the coffee pots were set higher than normal drinking temperature.

The reasoning for this was because people would buy their coffee in the drive-thru or lobby and take it home to drink. The whole concept of actually drinking it in the car was not considered when the holding temps were specified by corporate, not to mention spill-type accidents.

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Re:How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment by phyzome on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:26PM (#7727459)

That may be why the temperature was set the way it was initially, but a big part of the court case was that they had had many instances of people burning themselves on the coffee and had decided it was cheaper to settle repeatedly.

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Re:How A Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment by joezydeco on Saturday May 10, 2014 @11:06PM (#7727581)

Sorry, I was only rebutting the parent comment about how the coffee urns were not set to a temperature different than any other restaurant.

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