Re: OT Humour, The Stella Awards


"Bob (this one)" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> tonywesley@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Bob (this one) wrote:
>>
>>>>Also, though people like to make fun of it, there was some merit in her
>>>>case
>>>>and 12 ordinary jurors found so. The problem was not that she spilled
>>>>coffee
>>>>on herself but that it was 20 to 30 degrees hotter than it should have
>>>>been
>>>>and thus caused much more damage than it would have had it been at the
>>>>around
>>>>the correct temperature.
>>
>>
>>>Oh, bull***. Get your facts straight. The temperature was exactly what
>>>the manufacturer set at the factory. Just like every other Bunn
>>>coffeemaker they make.
>
> I note that your citation below doesn't dispute the comments above. Just
> injects a lot of emotional rhetoric.
>
>> You can read an account here:
>>
>> http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit.htm
>>
>> Of course, this is reprinted from that notorious liberal anti-business
>> newspaper, "The Wall Street Journal."
>
> Oh, do go read it and savor the objectivity of the reporting and the
> accuracy of her reporting. Says, "...McDonald's sells a billion cups a
> year." Waaaaay overstated. But if it were true, the 700 complaints are
> cumulative from the previous ten years. Let's step it way down and say
> they sell a billion a year. That would be 10 billion cups of coffee. Ten
> billion. 10,000,000,000 cups of coffee. 700 complaints. For everyone who
> was burned, more than 14 million others weren't.

That is making the assumption that everytime someone is burnt, (s)he
complains. This is probably not true.

McDonalds has nearly 14,000 restaurants in the US. If they sell 200 cups of
coffee a day, on average, then that works out to around 1,000,000,000 cups
of coffee a year. And they have about 31,000 restaurants overall. So that
works out to around 100 cups of coffee per restaurant world wide. So
1,000,000,000 cups of coffee a year seems quite reasonable.

(...)

Jeff


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