{"id":305593,"date":"2026-07-25T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305593\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T18:43:16","slug":"woman-sues-nyc-mcdonalds-over-extremely-hot-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305593\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sues NYC McDonald’s over ‘extremely’ hot fries"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman says the French fries at a Midtown East McDonald\u2019s were so blisteringly hot they burned the inside of her mouth.<\/p>\n

Catherine Luongo is still salty after allegedly being scorched by \u201cextremely hot and overheated\u201d fries<\/a> at the 42nd Street outpost on March 5, she said in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Luongo] sustained serious and severe personal injuries to head, body and limbs; a severe shock to the nervous system [and] suffered great physical pain and mental anguish,\u201d the filings reads. <\/p>\n

\"AA NYC woman is suing McDonald\u2019s after allegedly burning her mouth on fries. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Her potentially \u201cpermanent and lasting\u201d injuries were so severe they left her bed-ridden, she claimed in the filing. <\/p>\n

She blames the \u201ccareless\u201d chain for serving her the sizzling <\/a>spuds and for failing to warn her that eating them came with a risk, according to court papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luongo is no stranger to lawsuits. She sued Walmart in 2025 and Panera in 2018, court dockets show.<\/p>\n

She claimed a worker at a Glendale Panera accidently hit her hand with a chair, causing \u201csevere\u201d and \u201cpermanent\u201d injuries, according to documents filed in Queens Supreme Court. She ultimately won $150,000. <\/p>\n

The case against Walmart, which was originally filed in Queens Supreme Court, but moved to federal court after Luongo demanded $1 million in damages, is ongoing, according to records.<\/p>\n

Luongo alleged in that case that an employee was returning multiple shopping carts to the Valley Stream store, when one of the carts with a metal pole attached hit her in the parking lot, leaving her bruised and wounded.<\/p>\n

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Walmart and Luongo are handling the matter privately, but as of July 9 have not reached a settlement. <\/p>\n

Luongo is demanding unspecified damages in the suit against McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The alleged incident comes more than 30 years after an elderly New Mexico woman<\/a> famously sued the burger giant after a piping-hot coffee spilled onto her lap and gave her third-degree burns.<\/p>\n

The case, Liebeck v. McDonald\u2019s Restaurants, initially won her a whopping $2.7 million. The award was later reduced in a confidential settlement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PeopleShe is suing a McDonald\u2019s in Midtown East. Leonardo Munoz for NY Post<\/p>\n

Stella Liebeck claimed the 180- to 190-degree beverage left her with injuries so severe she was hospitalized for a week and needed skin grafts.<\/p>\n

Leading up to her case, McDonald\u2019s had received more than 700 similar complaints from customers who said they had been burned, according to the Consumer Attorneys of California<\/a>.\u00a0In the aftermath of the case, McDonald\u2019s was forced to lower the serving temp of its coffee and slap warning labels on the cups. <\/p>\n

More recently, the chain was sued by a Massachusetts mother in 2023 after her toddler suffered first- and second-degree burns on her legs from \u201cunreasonably and dangerously hot fries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The child needed surgery and was allegedly left \u201cdisfigured and scarred,\u201d per the document. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think [Luongo\u2019s case] is going to be very fact determinative,\u201d food poisoning attorney Ron Simon told The Post. \u201cHow hot were the fries? Was the meal mishandled?\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonald\u2019s and Walmart did not return requests for comment. Luongo\u2019s attorney declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman says the French fries at a Midtown East McDonald\u2019s were so blisteringly hot they burned the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18991,26230,6701,3100,23794,57,21996,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-305593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-burns","tag-consumers","tag-french-fries","tag-lawsuit","tag-mcdonalds","tag-metro","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}