Clearly it's not a McDonalds since that disclaimer is on their coffee everywhere--must be another fast food outlet that has no fear of people getting third degree burns from their coffee.
Coffee should never be served hot enough to cause third degree burns in the first place. The rationalization for doing so never made any sense. But McDonald's still does it. Last time I ordered a coffee there, it was still undrinkably hot 45 minutes later, and I had to throw it out because I was getting on a bus.
Ah, from working with the chain when it happened, I know what really happened... In that case, our pots were a new purchase, and had a faulty temp gage built into them. Every store in the chain had to get them replaced and the settlement actually got paid by the company that made the pots. That of course, didn't make good news though.
That would be a categorical failure to learn from their own mistakes. That, and they got the pr spin to blame the woman, not the company, so future burns would not get lawsuits.
Hot Coffee is a great documentary about that case; and the attempt by large corporations and the Chamber of Commerce to limit the ability to bring a law suit (Tort reform).
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