Ironwood
TUG Member
When you stop at Tim Hortons today, you are supporting a Brazilian hedge fund that controls the brand...imagine that!
When you stop at Tim Hortons today, you are supporting a Brazilian hedge fund that controls the brand...imagine that!
They don't even make the donuts in the restaurants now. Everything is baked in a commercial bakery and shipped to the stores for sale.Interesting. They must have been between donut batches or maybe they don't make more donuts once they run out and it's closer to lunch? I sat with nothing while Cliff had a cup of coffee.
This must be fairly recent. I was in Buffalo in the late 80’s and don’t remember seeing any Tim Horton’s then.Tim Horton's is HUGE in the Buffalo, NY area. So dominant that few other options for donuts & coffee exist. Dunkin' Donuts has tried twice to make inroads only to fail. There's now only 1 or 2 DDs left. I think part of the attraction is that Tim Horton played for the Buffalo Sabres at the end of his career and actually died in a car crash when he was driving from Toronto to Buffalo to get to a game after visiting family.
I personally don't drink coffee and feel their donuts are just ordinary. But, in Buffalo, they have taken on the strategy of McDonalds of saturating the market. For instance, there are 2 store fronts less than 1 mile apart with a service station drive thru just a quarter mile away from one of them and another in-store shop at a car wash another quarter mile down the road.
They don't even make the donuts in the restaurants now. Everything is baked in a commercial bakery and shipped to the stores for sale.
This must be fairly recent. I was in Buffalo in the late 80’s and don’t remember seeing any Tim Horton’s then.
Under the old owners do you know how they decided where to build a new Tim Horton's? It was how far a donut would roll from a current Tim Horton's.
Anyone hear of this other chain.... Dutch Bros?
That is not completely accurate. The baked goods are partially baked at the distribution centres and then flash frozen. They then use special ovens in the stores to finish ........... IMO, they still tasted better when they weren't flash frozen!!
Under the old owners do you know how they decided where to build a new Tim Horton's? It was how far a donut would roll from a current Tim Horton's.
Being owned by a us company then Brazilian company should have been the end of them. Even before the latest tarriff issues. But people are like sheep.
Well, back from a week away driving about 1000 km's round trip. Despite all my criticism of TH, we did stop four times along the route and twice at McD, depending on which we found first when looking for a pit stop. This time, I really couldn't tell the difference between coffees. For us, it was just a matter of convenience.
. took over the brand and then did whatever to increase returns on investment.. for ex.. switching suppliers, increasing prices, r.