Why do Canadians online seem to hate Tim Hortons?
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Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.
Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims
️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
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Yea because around the time McCafe rolled out in Canada Tim Hortons switched to roasting their coffee inhouse while McDonalds had their supplier create a similar blend to the old tim hortons coffee.
Didn’t McDonald’s outbid Timmy’s and get their actual supplier, and that’s why McDonald’s coffee taste like Timmy’s used to?
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Didn’t McDonald’s outbid Timmy’s and get their actual supplier, and that’s why McDonald’s coffee taste like Timmy’s used to?
wow. that explains why i shifted to McD’s coffee around 2010
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It sold out to a multinational organization becoming non Canadian owned before changing their coffee, all their baked goods, and rebranding as a bit of a psuedo upscale fast food provider.
What was a chill, decent coffee spot with some in house baked good swapped out for just another resteraunt with coffee that served frozen factory made baked goods that are dry, tasteless, overpriced, and boring.
Quality dropped, nolonger Canadian owned, vibe changed entirely, price went up.
Tims shouldn’t sell pizza, or fifty different lunch items. It shouldn’t be a cheaper upscale caffe, it shouldn’t be in competition with starbucks or McDonalds let alone both. But that’s what it is now.
It sold out to a multinational organization becoming non Canadian
and yet they continue to market themselves as an essential part of the fabric of canadian culture, and people eat it all up
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Didn’t McDonald’s outbid Timmy’s and get their actual supplier, and that’s why McDonald’s coffee taste like Timmy’s used to?
Whatever the reason, McCafe coffee is pretty good. I used to buy it for making at home until it jumped prices from 21.97 to 25.97 to 29.97 over a few weeks. Just a few years ago it was around 15.97.
Coffee prices in general have spiked recently though.
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Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.
Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims
️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.Creeping decline in quality due to capitalism + using Canada as their identity created a strong backlash from others who identified as Canadian but didn’t identify with creeping decline.
Them selling out to a non Canadian company, and continuing to use Canadian identity to market themselves, then provoked even more intense backlash.
It’s not just the reaction to being attacked by the undead, it’s the reaction to being attacked by an undead friend.
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I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
Woah, this idea fills me with a vague sense of dread.
Like seriously, I’d rather eat pretty much anything other than Tim’s. What options are even there then?
Wet Cardboard Express?
Get-Outta-here burger? -
Cuz it used to be great, but due to capitalism it has grown worse and worse over time. I mean, I eat and drink there because I am also a slave to convenience but it’s not “good” like it once was.
When was it good? 2005?
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compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
Woah, this idea fills me with a vague sense of dread.
Like seriously, I’d rather eat pretty much anything other than Tim’s. What options are even there then?
Wet Cardboard Express?
Get-Outta-here burger?I don’t even wanna know what passes for “coffee” over there.
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I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
Your MCD fries are fucking amazing tho. Bad for you but very good.
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When was it good? 2005?
Before it was bought by Burger King in 2014
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Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.
Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims
️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.To reiterate other points in the thread: they used to be pretty good and Canadian.
But in 2014, they were bought out by Burger King and the quality absolutely plummeted. Their coffee supplier went to McDonalds, and all the baked goods are now frozen rather than fresh; making them stale
They’ve cut enough corners that the brand is now associated with low tier trash. But because they used to be Canadian, and still try to market themselves as Canadian, it’s become offensive. This is not what Canadians want to associate themselves with anymore
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I don’t even wanna know what passes for “coffee” over there.
I’ve literally unclogged a toilet today and that was just about the same ballpark of things I would never even consider drinking, along with Tim’s.
Everything there is bullshit, even their handsoap smells terrible. -
I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
Man you must’ve visited the best Tim Hortons on a good day and also the worst In-N-Out and Chick-Fil-A if you think Tims is better. I might forgive you if you haven’t tried Tim’s in the past 20 years though, back when everything was made in store.
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When was it good? 2005?
Prior to 2003 for sure, which was they year they switched from fresh baked in house to par-baked frozen donuts. I suspect the rot started earlier than that though. The company was actively shifting away from coffee and donuts, and pursuing aggressive growth way back in the 90s.
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I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.
Tim Hortons is awful. I can’t imagine how bad your fast food must be.
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Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.
Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims
️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.Quality is shit, and it’s not even owned by a Canadian company.
Tim Hortons is known for fucking their workers hard and allowing their franchisees use indentured servitude.
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Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.
Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims
️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.Timmie’s used to be really good. But when private equity (the foreign owners) came in, they cut a lot of things that made the products superior. The brand of coffee was changed, the donuts were made centrally and shipped out, and a lot more “cost-cutting” features.
I still grab a French Vanilla when I need something sweet that has a decent caffeine base to keep me awake. But the quality has slipped such that I would rather make my own coffee at home than get theirs. A FV is just a convenience purchase at this point, something I get when I don’t have the opportunity to make my own coffee.
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I think it’s a combination of their consistent and obvious decline in quality, combined with the fact that most people in this country have been regular customers for at least some period of their life. Very few fast food chains are as widespread and common in small communities (McDonald’s and subway come to mind). I don’t remember any other fast food chains getting worse almost overnight, but I do remember Tim’s switching to much worse bread on their sandwiches, and their donuts going from fresh, to frozen but decorated, to whatever you call the attempted smearing of nearly solid “icing” on top. Are other chains any better? I can’t say for sure, but I can say Tim’s at any previous point in history was.
Plus it went from Canadian owned to American. One more Canadian business down the drain. That won’t endear a bran to Canadians, particularly in the current climate.
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Prior to 2003 for sure, which was they year they switched from fresh baked in house to par-baked frozen donuts. I suspect the rot started earlier than that though. The company was actively shifting away from coffee and donuts, and pursuing aggressive growth way back in the 90s.
Around here the timing is always described as “when they gave McDonalds their coffee contract”
