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Tim Hortons Hasn't Been Canadian-Owned For A Long Time (www.mashed.com)

submitted 2 days ago by paperBark@slrpnk.net to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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Just a little reminder.

Pisses me off to no end that they use the Canadian identity for marketing when they sold out decades ago.

Also their coffee and food has been shit for a long time too, coincidence? I think not.

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 days ago (19 children)

(Engage old fart mode)

It wasn’t that long ago that Tim Hortons restaurants baked their own donuts in house. Fresh all the time. It was their draw.

Fast forward and they truck in everything frozen from a manufacturing plant. Things aren’t made there anymore - they’re thawed and assembled. And it tastes like it.

They used to be legendary for their coffee, but a few years ago they let their agreement with their coffee supplier to lapse. McDonald’s scooped it right up which suddenly put McCafe on the map. Tim’s found a new supplier but the coffee wasn’t nearly as good.

Aren’t a bunch of their franchises also under investigation for Temporary Foreign Worker program abuse?

It’s just been death by a thousand really stupid cuts.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I worked there during the frozen donut transition. A few really cool stoner night bakers got let go from my store.

[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 0 points 18 hours ago

And replaced with cheap, exploitable TFWs!

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