Federal judge: Starbucks is not ripping you off

Too much ice in your Starbucks drink? According to a federal judge, people need to chill out.

The Washington Post reports U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, of the Central District of California, concluded that no typical customer would feel cheated by ice cubes, even if they took up a significant volume in the clear plastic cup.

Filed in May, the lawsuit claimed Starbucks was cheating customers on cold beverages by adding too much ice to the cup. In the complaint, plaintiff Alexander Forouzesh argued that because drink sizes were advertised by fluid ounce, the coffee chain was under-filling its cups with fluid. Ice aside, Forouzesh claimed baristas poured only about 14 ounces of drink into a Venti cup – advertised at 24 ounces – per his measurements, according to the Post.

Judge Anderson offered Forouzesh a simple solution: Order your drink with no ice.

“Young children learn, they can increase the amount of beverage they receive if they order ‘no ice.’ If children have figured out that including ice in a cold beverage decreases the amount of liquid they will receive,” he said, “the court has no difficulty concluding that a reasonable consumer would not be deceived into thinking that when they order an iced tea, that the drink they receive will include both ice and tea and that for a given size cup.”

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