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.

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    1 year ago

    I’m saying that when I carry my Mac & Cheese over to my sink to strain the water out of it I could spill the water on my groin and suffer similar injuries this woman suffered. You’re pretending that danger doesn’t exist because you want to pretend the 80C liquid at McDonald’s is somehow magically more dangerous than the 100C liquid in my pot of Mac & Cheese.

    And BTW, I actually measured the temperature of a cup of instant coffee I made… it was 88C. Millions of people make instant coffee every day.

    You want it to be true that people that say “coffee is supposed to be hot” are somehow dummies that don’t understand the real facts that you found by “doing your own research on the internet.” You want this so much you’re willing to ignore actual facts that you could easily verify by simply sticking a thermometer into a cup of coffee.

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      are somehow dummies that don’t understand the real facts that you found by “doing your own research on the internet.”

      Oh the irony of a random person on the Internet saying this to a chemical engineer

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        LOL, a chemical engineer that’s not capable of sticking a thermometer into a cup of coffee to verify what the temperature of coffee is.