Starbucks has faced a barrage of charges this year that its cheating its customers by underfilling drinks, and now a federal judge has ruled that one of those lawsuits can move forward, allowing customers to sue the coffee giant for fraud and false advertising.
On Friday, U.S. district judge Thelton Henderson ruled in San Francisco that two California customers could move proceed with a suit that accuses Starbucks of cheating customers by regularly underfilling its lattes. According to Reuters, the lawsuit contends that the coffee chain overcharges customers by serving lattes that contain 25 percent too small, with baristas leaving 1/4 of an inch of free space in cups, and that it’s a policy that’s been in place since 2009 with a recipe that creates smaller lattes in order to save money on milk.