Chris Friesen wrote:
CC wrote:

Makes me think of the woman suing McD's because she spilled
hot coffee on herself, Seems it is getting so everyone wants to
screw someone for their mistakes.

That case has had a lot of press, but there's more to it than "coffee
is hot, deal with it".

The coffee was absorbed into the woman's sweatpants and held next to
her skin. McD's keeps their coffee at 185 degrees, while most other
places keep theirs at 140 or so. At 155 or less, the coffee would
have been cool enough to avoid causing a serious burn. At the higher
temperature, it caused third-degree burns over 6 percent of her body,
bad enough that she needed skin grafts. Initially she tried to
settle out of court for $20000, but McD's refused.

No, the case _is_ that coffee is hot, deal with it.

The ANSI standard for coffee makers requires that the holding temperature be
not less than 170F, and between 170 and 205F. Most engineers would split
the difference and design to hold at 187.5, allowing the largest possible
margins in both directions.

Similar lawsuits brought against McDonalds in the UK have failed. A lawsuit
brought against Bunn-O-Matic on similar grounds failed. As for "most
other places keeping theirs at 140 or so", that would, I guess, be most
other places besides Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Wendys, and Burger King, all
of which require similar holding temperatures and all of which have been
sued on similar grounds.