One of the true comfort of modern life is the driver. After ordering coffee or meals, it does not have to get out of the car, it simplifies some mistakes so much and more efficient.
Driver-thru, a motorist may have started as a quick way to catch a bite or drink, but developed. Most banks have the driver and you can leave dry cleansing in some places, you can take six packs (yes, drive-thru beverage stores), look at the body of a loved one or even without building a territorial brake.
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But sometimes comfort comes with an unexpected value.
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Starbucks, products are not the first company that burns a client on a customer driver
Last Starbucks (Wonder( Case and Judgment filed against McDonald in 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck, sued the fast food giant in his arms. Scaling coffee burns more than 16% of the third-degree literteer’s body and led to spend eight days in a hospital.
Although the jury decreased a judge’s award for $ 480,000, a $ 1.7 million payment loss for punishment damage and $ 2.7 million was damaged.
According to the lawsuit, Liebeck coffee, McDonald’s Ms. Libeek coffee is hot as 180-190 degrees; The optimal drinking temperature for hot drinks is 140-150 degrees. At this time, McDonald’s, a promising commutor, had a promising campaign when coffee has reached their own tables.
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A few years later, in 2012, McDonald’s, another customer, Lynne Gipson, a California McDonald’s employee brought tea and hot water in the “negligent” issue. Like Liebeck, Gypson, according to a report in the ate, lived burns in the thigh and stomach. In this case, a McDonald’s employee said that the company apologized to the driver, saying that he prepared a new cup and lid.
McDonald’s solved the suit provided by Gipson for an unexplained amount.
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Starbucks protest the mass judgment
The most recent heading incident in the driver of the driver, after a hot tea was spilled in 2020, a Starbucks client was seriously injured in 2020.
Barista Michael Garcia in a Starbucks in South Los Angeles, then a postmat slip, a hot tea Laden Cup Cup through a window. According to the Garca and his lawyer, the three Ventey’s “medical ball” tea drinking “desert” grains “without grain” indifferent “was spilled in the arms of Garcia.
Garcia was immediately taken to the ambulance room and then was treated at the GROSSMAN burned center.
Garcia and his lawyer claimed that his genital authorities suffered “heavy burns, dysfigures and nerves.”
On March 14, the jury in Los Angeles County, Starbucks ordered Starbucks to pay $ 50 million to the Starbucks Michael Garcia.
A spokesperson called the “excessive” award for Starbucks and said the company will apply.
“We are sympathetic with Mr. Garcia, but we believe that the jury believes in the sin of this incident and believes in the oversized damage.” “We plan to address. We are committed to the highest security standards in our store, including hot drinks.”
Starbucks sentence is between the greatest prizes for an injury associated with the restaurant. Most such injuries and prizes are related to “sliding and autumn” scenarios.
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