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.
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.
They’re not Canadian anymore, they’re not fresh, and the crap they serve is a shallow imitation of what they once were. The business that was started by Tim Horton himself died long ago, another victim of multinational corporations that fuck everything up in the name of profit.
Yeah, it’s owned by Burger King, and the new owners accelerated the reduction in quality that had started a decade before the buyout.
The reason for my particular gripes with Tim Horton’s is their over-the-top Canadian branding of an American company. It should be illegal, as clearly false marketing.
They’re also franchises, and are notorious for most franchise owners being borderline abusive to their largely teenage and immigrant staff, who may not know better or have the resources to fight back against illegal labour practices.
And the food is terrible, and the coffee is the second worst in the Canadian fast food industry (after A&W).
What is there not to hate about Tom Horton’s?
They need to cut off quality to afford to give their execs more money.
Tim’s is about as Canadian as Donald Trump nowadays…
Sold out to a Brazilian mega-corp (Brazil has the some of the worst coffee on the planet). Cut everything down to the bone in terms of quality of product and quality of service to maximise profits, and is just coasting on nostalgia and the good will it built back when it actually WAS good (1990’s… Damn, I miss those cherry sticks!)
Brazil has the some of the worst coffee on the planet
Brazil is the biggest coffee producer, so it’s both the biggest source of shit cheap coffee and also a big source of very good expensive coffee. Guess which one is picked as supplier for most chain stores?
If you get Brazilian beans from a local roaster, it’s pretty damn good. But it’s microlot so obviously expensive.
Come on bruh. Have you been to a Tim Hortons in the last 20 years? Dumpster fire to the exponent of 100.
They keep trying to pretend they’re Canadian and there’s nothing good about it.
Eating Tim Hortons is like eating food made from someone describing food to a cardboard printer.
It used to smell like fresh baked bread and fresh ground coffee when you walked in.
Their pastries, donuts and buns were fresh baked in house. It was an experience to see a tray of steaming bread rolls coming out of the back while you were waiting for your order.
They switched their ethically sourced coffee bean supplier back when they sold out. If I remember correctly, McDonalds then swooped in and took over the supply contracts, so suddenly McDs had the superior coffee (in my opinion).
Because its garbage. Decades back they had good coffee, fresh in store baked donuts, and good deals. Now is bland coffee, trucked in food that is garbage, and expensive. Nothing good about it anymore.
And it pretends at being a Canadian staple when in reality it hasn’t been Canadian in ages
Because it’s terrible. The food is terrible, they treat their employees terribly, the employees are understandably terrible themselves and the whole thing is shoved down our throats as 🍁 CANADIAN 🍁
Well, I cannot write it better than all the comments here… Yes it was good 25 years ago, but selling it to BK, changing coffee beans (they used to be good, years ago they changed it, because of price I guess, and the new one is disgusting. McDo switched to the old TH beans AFAIK this is why the McDo coffee is good), having donuts came frozen and just heating them, capitalism, etc.
In the last 20 years I went to TH less than 10 times.
Personally, I think their coffee is disgusting and tastes like dirt poured into a cup. As for other people’s hate, no idea.
Yup, it sucks. Used to be pretty good but they switched suppliers, now it tastes like crap. Macdonalds now has their old supplier (but doesn’t use the specific blend) and is way better than the tar they used to sell.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Because Tim Hortons is the Burger King of Canada, after all they merge …
At the Beginning Tim Horton (the hockey player) started a pretty decent Dunkin Donuts like restaurant but at some point his actioneers oust him and he died without money for what he build. Now Tim Horton’s at this time was still something okay I guess, in Montreal language watchdogs asked Tim Horton’s to comply with French Language Law which they refuse and transforme the Tim Horton’s to Tim Hortons (because now it’s a name I guess).
Like you can see they always were shitty corporate citizen
Somewhere in the 2010s McDonald Canada tried to stole their market parts with better coffee and donuts. They partially succeeded because Tim Hortons at the time did great pub to bolster patriotic sentiment (they appears in How I met Your Mother after all). Since then they never really tried to be better and after that they merged with Burger King
and he died
like a loser, while under the influence and speeding. Good thing he didn’t kill anyone else on the way out.
without money for what he build
He and his family still had shares when he died. After his death, she sold the shares. Granted, the business partner was probably taking advantage of a grieving widow, but he did have money, and control, of what he built when he died.
The baked goods taste stale and the coffee is overrated.
