JUDGE REJECTS UNDERFILL SUIT AGAINST STARBUCKS

A U.S. District Court has rejected a California customer’s claim that Starbucks purposefully puts too much ice in its cold drinks to hide the real amount of liquid in the cup. The California plaintiff, Alexander Forouzesh, alleged that Starbucks tells baristas to fill the liquid in iced drinks up to a preset fill line that’s not at the top of the cup. The remainder of the drink is just ice and that’s fraud, he claimed, because beverage sizes don’t contain the quantities of liquid advertised – 12 ounces for a Tall, 16 ounces for a Grande, or 24 ounces for a Venti. Forouzesh wanted to expand his complaint into a class action suit that included every Californian who purchased an iced Starbucks drink in the last ten years. But Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sided with Starbucks saying that nowhere does the company indicate its drink sizes represent actual ounces of pure liquid. “If children have figured out that including ice in a cold beverage decreases the amount of liquid they will receive,” his ruling states, then “a reasonable consumer would not be deceived” by the ice in cold drinks. The judge also noted that since Starbucks’ cold drink cups are clear, consumers can see that they in fact contain ice. Starbucks is still facing three other lawsuits alleging that it underfills drinks, including one that claims the company underfills hot lattes by over-aerating the milk.
* I thought the milk came out of the cow that way. You know – frothy cows.
* Judge Percy Anderson – in the pocket of Big Coffee.
* So the judge says a 16-ounce coffee is not a 16-ounce coffee? Trump could fix this.
* Tell you what. Next time you order a cold drink at Starbucks, tell them, “No ice, please.” Let’s see how far the bastards fill the cups.
* I mean, baristas. Sorry.
* Wait until the guy figures out that there’s, like, a tablespoon of actual liquid in a 7-Eleven Slurpee, before freezing and aeration.
* Great, now the baristas are going to be extra smug for awhile.
* Ironically, the judge put the case on ice.
* Notice how the judge rubbed it in with the comment about children?
* This ruling should mean a big spike in the pay for the farmers who grow the beans…Just kidding!