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i have a new understanding of the mcdonalds coffee case now

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Jouster:
WOW...long ass thread...I admit that I didn't read it all...did anyone bring up that McDonald's did all kinds of market research and found out that coffee drinkers perferred the coffee that was brewed at the really high temperature?

I worked at McDonald's before this all went down...and we were trained about that...so it isn't some spin thing that came out afterward.  The old lady was being dumb...or maybe she was trying to see if there was still life 'down there'??  I guess she found out.

Jouster

Crax:
http://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/urban_legends_and_stella_liebe.html

Crax:
Yeah, not sure about that part, but I do agree with the last part

"McDonald's took responsibility when one of its employees spilled coffee on a customer and settled cases of burns from such spills. Because a coffee-spill is usually the fault of the person who spilled the coffee"

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 27, 2007, 02:33:33 pm ---I got about two paragraphs into that article, biting my tongue, until I got to this part:

"today Starbucks has gone from a local shop to a dominant national chain, despite prices several times higher than McDonald's, because they serve their coffee hotter than McDonald's served it to Stella Liebeck"

Starbucks is a dominant national chain because their coffee is hotter than McDonald's?  That doesn't even make sense.


"boss, we're losing all our market share to Starbucks, cause they're 10 degrees hotter!"

"damn them and their magic coffee makers!"


 :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

--- End quote ---

i cant get very far into that link either. but for me its because it keeps questioning the legitimacy of the case. was it not held in an american court of law? does that not make it legitimate?  :dunno

Jouster:
Well, according to the link, only one court in about 12 picked up the case...I think that clearly shows that the case was not legitimate and that it ran into a judge looking to get his name in the paper.  That's a completely different story.

Jouster

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