"In a victory for Big Foam, a lawsuit against Starbucks is thrown out"

From Quartz:

A US federal court has thrown out a class action lawsuit against Starbucks that alleged that the beverage chain was cheating customers by under-filling drinks and overdoing it with the foam.

Siera Strumlauf and Benjamin Robles of California filed a class action suit against the chain in 2016 “on behalf of purchasers of Starbucks Caffè Lattes, Flavored Lattes, Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Egg Nog Lattes, Skinny Lattes, Skinny Flavored Lattes, Vanilla Lattes, and Skinny Vanilla Lattes (collectively, ‘Lattes’),” according to the legal filing.

The plaintiffs charged that Starbucks systematically cheated this collective of latte purchasers over the years, with drinks missing as much as 25% of their advertised volume. It was, the plaintiffs alleged, part of a scheme to save money on milk, one of the chain’s most expensive ingredients....MORE

Big Foam, like the similarly shadowy International Parsley Cartel, is incredibly powerful, in a not-very-often-remarked-upon sort of way.