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McDonald’s coffee was and is served at about the same temperature as other locations. Starbucks coffee is nearly as hot. Recommendations from coffee trade groups is the same range.

Coffee served at the “right” temperature is dangerously hot. No one wants tepid coffee.

An equivalent lawsuit in the UK was dismissed, because it turned out that lowering the coffee temperature by the 5 or so degrees to make it match industry standards would have no meaningful effect on the burn risk. Similar lawsuits, including one against Bunn, have been dismissed in the US because this is standard coffee temperature. You can’t serve good coffee at 140 degrees as Liebeck's attorneys argued it should be. Just ban hot coffee at that point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...