Chris Friesen wrote:
HeyBub wrote:
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.


On the other hand, McDonanlds has served 10 billion cups of coffee
and she is one of very few that had a problem. Typically that
proportion suggests the problem lies with the user not the provider.

You could turn the argument around and say that all other coffee
providers serve it at a lower temperature, so the fact that McD's is
the exception shows that they may be doing something unexpected.

If in fact all other coffee providers served it at the lower temperature.
Starbucks doesn't. Dunkin Donuts, whose coffee is generally quite well
regarded, doesn't. Burger King and Wendys don't. Further, percolators and
drip coffee machines and espresso machines and most of the other kinds of
device that one would use at home to make coffee don't.

Chris