Life won’t be imitating “Seinfeld” for a woman who claims her belly was burned by a scalding cup of Starbucks tea.
Instead of getting free beverages for life like the sitcom’s Cosmo Kramer, doctor and self-described “professional model” Riffat Qureshi, 36, is facing fraud allegations from the Seattle-based coffee giant.
Qureshi, a married mother of four from Sayre, Pa., says in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that she was splashed with boiling water when a barista at Starbucks’ 120 W. 56th St. outlet slid the drink across the counter, shouting, “Catch the cup.”
Starbucks has accused Qureshi of faking her injuries from the alleged July 2006 incident, with a lawyer saying that the woman’s physician testified that he diagnosed her with a rash and skin infection.