Re: The McDonald's incident

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

On re-reading MD's post, I remembered that (I hate to admit this - but I've broken my rule to only patronize McD's in foreign countries (so far London, Buda-Pest, and Moscow) I've bought coffee at
McD's a few times, and every time I've had to either buy a small container of milk of ask the supervisor for some.  They insist on supplying only superheated half and half. in teaspoon amounts.  After
about ten of them, I'm happy, except it tastes as if I'd added butter.  AND those lids are not designed to be removed!  I've spilled a little several times - even though it was at the condiments
bench. (They over fill also.)

bc

P.s. Weird. The juxtaposition of V. I. Lenin bas-relief, etc. on metro opposite the McD. near the "Tretiyakov Galeriya."

Mariam Dittman wrote:

> I have finally gotten the courage to respond after a long while as a silent
> member of the list.  My father-in-law is an attorney of the sort who would
> file such a case.  He gave a lecture for me at one time in which this case
> among others was discussed.  He said that McD corp. requires all of its
> restaurants to store their coffee at about 20 degrees hotter than the FDA
> has identified as "fit for human consumption".  Why?  Because they want to
> be able to claim to serve the hottest coffee in town.  Additionally, because
> coffee that is too hot to drink is not refilled as much as coffee that is
> reasonable to drink.  The woman in question (who was a passenger and not the
> driver, by the way) was in a parking space trying to open the lid to put in
> cream and sugar.  She didn't spill much, but received 3rd degree burns (as
> was pointed out already in this list).  McD had been sued over this same
> issue hundreds of times and still required their coffee to be hotter than
> humans can drink.  As I recall, all this woman wanted was for McD to pay her
> medical bills and they refused.  The jury decided they should teach McD a
> lesson.
>
> On another note, there was a vaguely similar case a short time later where
> someone was mildly burned by spilling Wendy's chili on themselves.  That
> case was dismissed as there were not any really severe injuries I believe.
>
> Mariam Dittmann
> Atlanta, GA