Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Week 4 EOC: McDonalds and Hot Coffee



If you were heard that and elderly women got burned from McDonald’s coffee, what would you do? Continue buying or ignore the fact? And because she go rewarded so much money, would you use that to bash the situation? This all happen in reality when and elderly lady in Albuquerque by the name of Stella Liebeck bought a cup of coffee in the drive thru at McDonald’s and spilled the cup on her lap. When reporters captured data about the incident, the coffee was overly hot. The temperature on a daily workday should be at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit. According to Ms. Liebeck she is indeed not in it for the money but of course people who knew she got rewarded such a large amount wondered how it all happened. People such as TV reporters, cartoons, and TV shows such as Seinfeld al made jokes and comments referring to the coffee incident. When it came down to court time with Stella the evidence that’s satiated were very interesting like;
  • McDonald’s operations manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns in three to seven seconds
  • McDonald’s admitted it had known about the risk of serious burns from its scalding hot coffee for more than 10 years. The risk had repeatedly been brought to its attention through numerous other claims and suits.
  • McDonald’s quality assurance manager testified that McDonald’s coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into Styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
  • McDonald’s admitted it did not warn customers of the nature and extent of this risk and could offer no explanation as to why it did not.
The lady was happy with what the jury was intend to reward her with which was $20,000 to cover the injury between her legs which bothered McDonald’s because they ever gave more than $800 before. Later as the time went while this was still the “hot topic”, she died. According to the video she died because all the pain and compassion going on. She felt as if she was being bashed about the whole trail, jury, verdict, and just everyone in general.  


1   1. Consumer Attorneys of California

 2. Wikipedia 25 June 2014 at 08:32



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