The 7 Most Bizarre Fast Food Industry Lawsuits

Haha Hooters in Greensboro NC I lived in Greensboro for the longest time. That's funny.

And dont forget when someon tried to sue bk because she couldnt have the food her way witch was free. And now if you see the trademark in tiny letters by HAVE IT YOUR WAY it says exept for free

Hey some chick once tried suing mccyD's cuz she fell in the bathroom and busted her head....then come to find out she slipped in her own pee...you could imagine her own shock 0.0

"beliefunwroughtLet's not forget the New Mexican woman who cut off the finger of her dead Aunt and planted it in her Wendy's chili hoping to get a whopping settlement. What she got instead: jail time."

Get your facts straight.....It was a Las Vegas woman, and it was her husband's co-worker's finger that was placed in the chilli...

hmmm in st louis we have hooters, show me's, and hot shots... and johnnys in soulard... man i could really go for some wings right now.....!

MacHaggis: You're wrong. It's that simple. McD's misinformation is strong so don't just google, read the actual case and get the facts. I was once like you.

@Atanamis, Additionally, she was in a fully stopped car, so there was no jostling via road bumps or traffic maneuvers. Also, she was the one who removed the lid that had been firmly placed by the restaurant personnel. She chose to hold the piping hot coffee between her legs willfully, then willfully removed the lid whilst the cup was betwixt her legs, rather than, say, in a cup holder. It's funny how folks never let facts get in the way of a good rant about corporations. Thanks for adding that info so the more sensationally inclined could get a few facts straight.

Oh, but I should also say this was quite well done.

The dumbest McLawsuit to me was when they tried to sue the Scottish clan McDonald.

There's a documentary about the McLibel people. I've never watched it but... it exists.

"Robble Gobble" Brilliant!!

"So when an American comes across a severed finger, their first thought is "who can I sue?"."

Actually, my first thought would be, "HOLY SHIT!!!!". Then I would proceed to vomit all over the floor and pass out from horror.

And the finger-in-the-chilli lady wasn't a normal customer: she put that finger in there herself. She was a special kind of crazy.

http://www.vanosteen.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit.htm
Machine was not malfunctining: "Before trial, McDonald's gave the opposing lawyer its operations and training manual, which says its coffee must be brewed at 195 to 205 degrees and held at 180 to 190 degrees for optimal taste."

Experts agree this is a reasonable temperature: 'Coffee connoisseur William McAlpin, an importer and wholesaler in Bar Harbor, Maine, who owns a coffee plantation in Costa Rica, says 175 degrees is "probably the optimum temperature, because that's when aromatics are being released. Once the aromas get in your palate, that is a large part of what makes the coffee a pleasure to drink."'

The injuries were severe, in large part because the coffee was held close to the skin by the ladies pants: 'At that point, Mr. Goens and the other jurors knew only the basic facts: that two years earlier, Stella Liebeck had bought a 49-cent cup of coffee at the drive-in window of an Albuquerque McDonald's, and while removing the lid to add cream and sugar had spilled it, causing third-degree burns of the groin, inner thighs and buttocks. Her suit, filed in state court in Albuquerque, claimed the coffee was "defective" because it was so hot.

What the jury didn't realize initially was the severity of her burns. Told during the trial of Mrs. Liebeck's seven days in the hospital and her skin grafts, and shown gruesome photographs, jurors began taking the matter more seriously.'

This summarizes most of the facts about the case. McDonald's deliberately served coffee at what it believed to be a reasonable temperature, and someone who was careless with it in their car was seriously burned. Perhaps a stronger cup should have been used, but the coffee was definitely not "unreasonably hot" compared to coffee industry standards. (Most other fast food establishments deliberately serve sub-par coffee, but that is a cost saving measure rather than a safety measure. Any high end coffee shop will sell you coffee at temperatures close to what McDonald's did.)

Hey, she's wearing a Greensboro, NC Hooters shirt! I was totally there just a few months ago

Food is good. Boobs.

Actually, KFC is starting to use the spelled out version of their name again. They were just trying to cash in on the popular craze of everyone abbreviating things because of the IM/email/txt/sms explosion.

"Deserved some recompense?" For incomparable idiocy? Newsflash: coffee is hot. If it wasn't, then it would be....well, cold coffee. To ding McDonald's for this is like suing Smith& Wesson when your unemployed brother-in-law blows his head off.
The product did its job: put a hole in the target. Similarly, the coffee did its intended job as well: it sure as hell woke her up rightnow.
"...deserved some recompense...". Jesus, take $10 outta Mom's purse and go buy a clue.

Let's not forget the New Mexican woman who cut off the finger of her dead Aunt and planted it in her Wendy's chili hoping to get a whopping settlement. What she got instead: jail time.

And let's not forget that the reason KFC doesn't use its full name anymore is because the State of Kentucky COPYRIGHTED its name, and would force the Colonel to fork over umpty-ump dollars for every barrel with the name on it.
That's also the reason you never get to hear Kentucky Woman on the radio anymore.

Darkhorse, I know quite a bit about that story and often have to explain it to strangers and loved ones. It's hard not to think that there is some weird paranoid disinfo conspiracy that keeps people thinking that this lawsuit was frivolous. Apparently Ms. Hotlap suffered some horrible burns and deserved some recompense. And I personally have suffered a facefull of molten apple pie...(those things eventually reduced in heat too, right? i don't go that slophouse anymore...)