McDonaldâs is being sued over a hot coffee spill, again.
This time, a San Francisco location is being accused of serving a âscaldingâ cup of coffee with an improperly attached lid, which allegedly resulted in the coffee pouring out on plaintiff Mable Childressâ body and causing âsevere burnsâ after she tried drinking it.
The lawsuit, filed last week, alleged that the elderly woman is suffering from âphysical pains, emotional distress and other damages.â The restaurantâs negligence was a âsubstantial factorâ for her injuries, it alleged.
Childress also said in the lawsuit that the restaurant employees ârefusedâ to help her, a point that the McDonaldâs denied.
Up in Canada (at least my part), McDonaldâs coffee is a great affordable coffee. Itâs better than Starbucks or (đ€ź) Tim Hortons. Itâs not going to compete with a bespoke artisan coffee shop that squeezes cat butt glands or whatever justifies selling a $5 cup for $10, but itâs better than almost everything else for the price.
The town I live in has 2 Tims, 1 McDonaldâs, and no cafes. I never considered how deeply it would eventually hurt leaving a place with quality cafes and restaurants for a place without. At this point weâre considering on just moving to an unorganized township because thereâs no point in paying the higher property taxes (thereâs a long list of complaints to go with that nugget).
The cost is twofold, justified by having:
1- actual quality cherries, grown and dried in a labor intensive ways by farmers actually making real money directly off of the sale of their coffee and-
2- small, local coffee Roasters actually taking care of the roast on a coffee you want to taste while also getting paid for their hard work.
That probably sounds fucking snobby as hell but it really makes a difference that is hard to ignore once you start tasting it.
No butt glands involved, feline or otherwise.
The real takeaway issue is $10 for a $5 cup of $.11 cents worth of ground coffee beans.
Yeah I read that is a common option. Canât believe that from where Iâm from, decent coffee joints are all over. Nobody I know would go to McDonaldâs for coffee