Oh horse shit.Any idiot knows coffee is hot. What facts did you discover that makes that case any less ridiculous?
{sigh} you really want me to go look it up?
Tell ya what... just for you I will... when I have time.
It mainly come down to the fact that they knew there was
SEVERE risk with the temperatures they were serving the coffee. Many incidents, many warnings, but no action to rectify the situation due to financial considerations. They felt the odds were in their favour and if injury occured they could just settle with a token payment and carry on. Further, the victim suffered horrifically. Take it from someone who has experienced burns to the ...umm ...little muffin, it ain't fun.
Ya you know coffee is hot, ...but it wasn't suppose to be
THAT hot.
It's like walking into a sauna, ...ya it's supposed to be hot, ...and you are entering of your own free will, yes, you should expect it to be hot, and you are taking a risk, ...but if the inside was the temperature of the inside of a blast furnace, and your foot disintegrated on contact, ...that's just plain blatant disregard for the public that borders on criminal negligence, ...especially if you willfully neglected to lower the temperature upon your first report of someone's foot disintegrating. Ya you expect it to be hot, ...but not like the surface of the Sun.
...and they didn't put the lid on properly. I'll provide more detailed analysis if and when I find them