I'd love to say she doesn't have a case but then there was that old woman who dropped her hot coffee in her lap at the McDonald's drive thru and ended up a millionaire... lawyers will figure out how to turn this 'ice' case into a big deal and some crazy judge will probably see their point. I wouldn't be surprised.
Except in the hot coffee case McDonald's had been told to decrease the temperature to "safe" levels and did not. And the woman got third degree burns because McDonald's did not adhere to the safe standard.
So many people obviously have never dealt with 3rd degree burns... They clearly have no concept of the level of tissue damage involved. This is why the lady was awarded money - the jury had the facts, and not just the "Woman spills coffee, sues MickyDees" headlines.
And then the appellate courts took (virtually) all the damages award away, which is an important part of the well-known story and an important part of why the OP's ignorant rage against that plaintiff is so... ignorant.
The only obvious parallel between the McDonalds case and the Starbucks case is the word 'coffee' which is pretty weak stuff. -No pun-
The Starbucks case is almost certainly a class action -that's where the pled damages lie, not in cheating one person (if cheating there was)- and based upon a theory of fraud upon a large group of consumers, not personal injury negligence. Legally speaking they could hardly be farther apart.
Now, there is a lot to be said both for and against consumer class action cases against companies. At best, they are the only effective remedy for a company cheating a large number of people out of a small amount of money each; which then falls below the practical limit for legal action. At worst, they are an affront to all that is holy and good in the Tea Party way of the world.
In between, they are problematic because they may represent a kind of lawyers' rent-seeking by filing and then settling this type of case for merely nominal amounts (but plus pretty large legal fees) or sometimes in addition a kind of whitemail where companies connive with the other side in reaching a settlement that cuts off substantial liability by settling the class claim cheap (except for the pay-off to the plaintiffs' lawyers.)
But why get in to all of that? It takes thought, and it is so much more fun to just hate on the plaintiff and all the crazeee judges out there.