Yes, but MickyDs deliberately jacked up the temperature into the hazardously hot zone to keep people from taking advantage of the free refills as it would take too long to cool the first cup to drinkable temperature.
Wrong. Industry standards, then, and now, are to brew between 195 and 205 degrees F. Quit trying to blame the company. Hot coffee is hot, most folks buy it from the drive through to drink at work or home, not to immediately consume.
Taking the lid off the coffee if you're sitting at the table allows the coffee to cool quite rapidly to drinking temperature. Also, within the testimony of that case, it was shown that over the course of 11 years (1982 - 1992), McDonald's had only received about 700 complaints about coffee being too hot. Hell, I bet that particular restaurant sold 700 cups of coffee in less than a week, let alone all restaurants over 11 years combined.
They received far more complaints about cold coffee if they served the coffee at a lower temperature.
Seriously?! I hadn’t heard that part of the story.