Found this

http://www.canuckabroad.com/forums/1...er=asc&start=0



And yes, I realise replying to my own post is sad
Now, if only I could give myself Karma eh!

Yes. It's desperately sad.

As for the next bit; let's not even go there.

I live in Powell River, BC, and recently it's been the talk of the town that we're going to be getting a Tim Hortons. Apparently, we're the biggest community in Canada that doesn't have a Tim Hortons. However, we found out the rumour was started by someone for a laugh.

Now to us this appeared to be a rather uninteresting thing, but the whole thing sparked fervent debate among the Canadians here. They are very upset that no one is actually coming to build a Timmy Ho's.

As a side issue, if anyone wants a winning franchise opportunity, Powell River would be a great place to build a Timmys.

Sarah

I find it staggering that the queues (or to be more Canadian, 'lines') for Tims in the morning spiral through the parking lots and out into the road. Particularly as its often times quicker to park go in and buy your coffee than wait for the drive thru. The coffee is OK, the tea is Ok but its not that special and frankly I can get just as nice coffee for free at work! I am unfortunately addicted to my once weekly sugar fix of a small assorted timbits through. Clearly the addititives they put in 'em are working!

The best thing about Timmy's for me is that their low-fat high fibre muffins are dairy and egg-free (supposedly). Since I can't eat donuts anymore, a nice blueberry-bran muffin helps to satisfy the pastry craving...

I love their XL coffee and walnut crunch donut.

The chilli bowl is great and a toasted cinnamon bagel with butter is wonderful!

Whenever we come go over for a visit we always vist Tim's. I enjoy a cheese croissant, always 'heated with butter', and my hubby enjoys the chilli bowl.

That white powder on them...that aint sugar

This, notwithstanding

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=354326

I'm pretty much indifferent to Tim Horton's as a corporation. Except for their signage, they're no better or worse than McDonalds but, boy, do I hate their customers.

I've given up on them but it used to be that I'd run in looking for a large black, right money in hand, and there'd always be some prat buying TimBits. Since they're the same TimBits that person bought yesterday you'd think he or she would know exactly how many bits of each type of sickly glop were wanted but, oh no, not only do people who eat donuts have difficulty walking, they have difficulty thinking. "Hmm, no put back three of the yellowish ones and give me two brownish ones and the one with the slime". Bear in mind that the server is either a new immigrant with no grasp of the names of the colours in English or a geriatric who creaks and groans with every moment and this is enough to make a zen master scream with impatience.

Then there's the signage. They put up signs along the highway marking the exits as having a coffee shop, one might think that such a sign means that there's a coffee shop at the exit but, oh no, in the case of Tim Horton's it just means that they have a coffee shop in the same province as the sign. It's not uncommon for the shop to be five miles from the exit.

Tim Horton's is plainly set up for people who aren't going anywhere in particular and who have all day to not get there. Red Green springs to mind.

The ultimate endorsement!

But its soooo good!!

So any one with a spare $273,000 cash and almost cash $250,000 like to emigrate as a business Class Talk to Tim's and the CIC and you may get here before the finished building it.

As a Coffee-Holic, Tim Horton's was a life saver on my last research trip.
Covering 5000 km in 2 weeks,
Coffee is OK quality > but very good value.
The drive through line up are for people like me, who want the coffee, but not be tempted by the doughnuts.
I had a business meeting and asked my client where do they want to go for lunch> they suggested Tim Horton's. The images that sprang to mind were doughnuts? - but once inside I had the soup, and managed to leave the free doughnut to one side.
Since I have found their sandwiches, chili and soup excellent low cost meals.

The month before I spent 2 weeks in the USA on the road, and came back 20lbs heavier.

Not named after him ... but by him. He didn't like the blend of coffee in other places so he made up his own blend and then decided to market it by setting up a Tim Horton. It grew from there, even after his untimely death.

Well Krispy Kreme (Us juggernaut) tried to come up here and take over the Doughnut and Coffee business a while ago. At first they did very well with the doughnut side of the equation - when they were only in a few spotlight locations.

But then they decided on the strategy: - instead of going head to head with Tim's for choice doughnut shop locales, they went for boutique shops inside mega-Loblaws grocery shopping stores. They failed miserably and have since pulled shop on the Loblaw stores across the country.

Now: In my opinion, they had very good coffee (not as good as a well-brewed Tim's) and a unique way to cook/display the doughnuts that always drew a crowd.

But! If you have coffe that is sub-par to Tim's...and your doughnuts have the equivalent to a Big Mac in calories per piece (also with no varying menu like Tim has) - then how did they expect to survive up here?

I agree that Tim's has diversified itself enough to dominate the market...even without the brainwashing!