Yeah, there's much less burns from hot coffee nowadays, but it's not necessarily from serving coffee colder (as far as I know coffee is usually held at extremel

Yeah, there's much less burns from hot coffee nowadays, but it's not necessarily from serving coffee colder (as far as I know coffee is usually held at extremely hot temperatures still). 1) The cup design is much, much sturdier. Not just at McDonald's, almost everywhere has sturdier cups. 2) The store usually puts cream and sugar in it rather than handing it to the customer to put it in themselves - that's what Stella was doing at the time she spilled. 3) cup holders are now plentiful and ubiquitous in cars - the car that Stella's grandson was driving didn't have cup holders so she had to grip the cup with her knees to open the cream/sugar.