Yea i wont get into that debate however i will say as an avid Timmies drinker i've been going to Mcdonalds much more for coffee as their lines are quicker. They seem to be more equipped to handle rushes of people buying food.
?? They haven’t. I’ve thought about it and i came up with this reason. If they had all the donuts in every single restaurant, most of the other restaurants won’t have as much business. Thus, they have specific restaurants to have the now “special” timbits/donuts so they make more money while making more salees.
It kinda go problematic once they shifted coffee vendors and the old vendor went to MCD.. and not to mention MCD lines are faster through the drive thurs.. not to say I despise Tim's.. they just dont do anything special for Canada anymore global locations look 100x better than what we get in Canada not to mention staff is overly south asian w thick accents they never make it a pleasant memorable experience unlike at starbucks.. I'm not sure as to why Dunkin donuts hasn't moved into Canada yet they could definitely give people something new to try
I think it will take a generation for Tim Hortons to completely disappear. Right now it's all the people going there for nostalgia despite the quality dropping, but kids today don't go there and as they grow up Tim Hortons is going to just get abandoned
2 years later and only 40 comments? How can that be? I have a few thoughts. Imagine a doughnut and coffee shop that brings in frozen doughnuts. Freshly thawed out before sale. The coffee is promoted as being (relatively) freshly made. It still tastes well-stewed, and I blame the equipment and the staff. I have seen staffers erasing the time info on pots and rewriting a later time. So the 20 minutes or less pot time limit is a fiction. The sandwiches are pathetic. There are no cooks at Tim's locations, just microwave operators. There are some clever ways to use a commercial microwave appliance to reheat food relatively successfully. Alternately, throw a few poorly trained and wildly inexperienced teens into the mix and you find horror shows. The cute cardboard packs are supposed to be for the benefit of shipping and storage. If you don't open the pack before you nuke it, the steam generated guarantees soggy, completely tasteless and sometimes ghastly results. Many of the entree packs sold at Tim's are precooked, then reheated. So you want a lovely twice-cooked egg breakfast sandwich? You will get a white and yellow hockey puck instead. The best things I found at Tim's were the iced cinnamon buns...recently discontinued...and during warm weather, an iced cap. In my home town of Sooke, BC, the buns are gone and the ice cap machine has been broken for about six months so far in 2023. You can get a watery iced cap, but who would actually want that? So that final comment reflects the sheer incompetence of Tim's management. I you let monkeys run your coffee shop, expect to have some monkey poop flying around.
They did not leave the U.S. in its entirety. In my home, the State of Connecticut, the six outlets they opened all folded within two years. Their product is trite and lackluster; nothing special at all. Because Canada is a much smaller and much less competitive market than the U.S., a chain like Tim Horton's can do well, because, frankly, it's all they have (beyond the usual American fast-food/quick-service chains.)
Also, their coffee recipe was purchased by McDonald's, so now the tims coffee of a decade ago is now at McDonalds. So when i want the double double i remember, i go to Mickey D's
I believe the downfall started when a non-canadian conglomerate bought out the company. As stated, the smaller inferior doughnuts make for poor customer satisfaction. The switch from actual roll up the rim to an app was the last straw for me, I don't boycott them but they don't get the same amount of business from me and many people I know.
Tim Hortons coffee is dishwater now. Dark roast my ass. The donuts are frozen garbage and not many varieties that they had years ago. The sandwiches and soup? Gross.
Maybe.. There menu is so big at this point they don't know what they are anymore. It's not uncommon to wait 30 minutes for a cup of coffee because they are serving chicken chipotle at 8am. I have visited Tim Hortons everyday for 2 decades and they have changed alot. In my opinion they were much better in the past
Starbucks is for rich people though there coffee is twice as much as it is at Timmy's and I don't like star buck coffee I find it bitter and anyway Tim's is more acceptable because it's everywhere if Tim's went there probably be no place I would go for coffee oh well just drink coffee at home it's cheaper anyways
