Elaborating further, it said that the coffee chain company concealed the actual space taken up by ice cubes in the cup in its listed sizes of beverages.
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“Any child can figure out that they’re being deceived by Starbucks, as well”, he said.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has tossed a lawsuit alleging Starbucks is misleading customers about the size of its iced beverages because some of the liquid is displaced by ice.
Looks like plaintiff Alexander Forouzesh won’t be turning his beef with the Seattle-based coffee giant into a class action lawsuit like he had hoped, which would have included “every Californian who’d purchased an iced Starbucks drink in the last ten years”. A similar case is pending in a federal court in Chicago. Just in case, at some point, one of these things goes through?
The judge concluded that because the cups Starbucks uses for cold drinks are clear, it’s easy to see that the drink contains a combination of liquid and ice.
It accused Starbucks of selling iced coffee and other cold beverages with significantly less product than advertised.
This isn’t the only ice-related lawsuit that Starbucks is facing. The complaint also noted that cold drinks tended to cost more than hot drinks and that the company was making more money off of customers buying iced drinks.
According to documents, a venti ice cold drink had 14 fluid ounces in it, with ice filling it up the rest of the way.
Starbucks’ defense argued that its measurements never indicate how much liquid there will be, only what size the cups were. Attorneys for Starbucks have until Thursday to file a motion to dismiss the case.
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In San Francisco, Judge Thelton Henderson allowed Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles’ latte lawsuit to move forward.
