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.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve spilled freshly brewed coffee at home on myself, and I just needed to run my hand under the faucet for a bit and then clean up the mess.

    This woman needed skin grafts from third degree burns. Saying the coffee was too hot is an absolute understatement.

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      1 year ago

      The other day I put my coffee(that I just made) in the fridge door and without thinking proceed to bend and try and grab the milk in the fridge’s door bottom, well I spilled that shit in my ear, neck and cheek, screamed like a motherfucker and ran to the shower.

      The area was red for a day or two and I used aloe vera, that Mctrash coffee was dangerous hot.