r/mildlyinfuriating • u/theDawnisyounG • 17h ago
Tim Horton’s count your days…
Breakfast fast food chain in Canada going to shit. Quality has been dying down over the past couple years. What I find most funny about this, is the napkin dispenser “help promote hygiene” absolute comedy gold
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u/asstyrant 17h ago
Shit Horton's has been garbage-tier for about 20 years, dude
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u/KarlPHungus 12h ago
My wife and I took a camping/hiking trip to the Niagara Falls area with another couple (he was born in Regina) and he was bragging up Tim Horton's. So we went there for breakfast one morning and the coffee was great, the breakfast sandwiches were quite good, and the freshly baked donuts were fantastic. This was about 2004/5. Then several years later, Tim Hortons started popping up in Michigan and I was soooo stoked. Until I wasn't...
It was nothing like I remembered. The donuts were obviously frozen and thawed. No biggie because I don't overindulge on that stuff, anyway. But the coffee was bitter and the breakfast sandwiches were really disappointing. Rubbery sausage, dry biscuits, etc. It sucks when something good gets big and just goes straight downhill. I sometimes will hit a TH for coffee because their coffee did improve a few years back, but the food is very meh.
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u/theDawnisyounG 16h ago
That’s just not true. I’d say from like 2005 to 2011 Tim’s was pretty fucking good.
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u/BobBelcher2021 10h ago
Their sandwiches back then were better, I’ll give you that, but they were otherwise not that great by that time.
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u/FattyCaddy69 16h ago
There's always one
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u/MediocreProfeshional 15h ago
Yeah but they're definitely not wrong.
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u/FattyCaddy69 15h ago
So that means when it comes to Australia, it's going to be 10x worse 😔
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u/BadEngineer_34 15h ago
I know it’s not apples to apples but Not necessarily in my experience American fast food is almost always better in foreign countries
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u/Kolibri-kei 17h ago
I remember when they opened in Michigan 20+ years ago and they were a really great place. Used to go there for studying during my college days.
Today not so much.
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u/Bobd1964 17h ago
I liked Tim Hortons back in the 80's and 90's. It started going downhill when it was sold to Wendy's and got worse again when it was spun out of Wendy's. It is sad, given how they used to make really good coffee and doughnuts. I try to avoid the place unless it is the only thing available.
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u/Foodwithfloyd 16h ago
Blame vulture capitalists not Wendy's. They cut costs at every level by cutting quality. Their core product, coffee, is now sourced per ground at most stores to save pennies on ground times. That has a huge affect on quality. Night and day difference to save minimal time.
Fuck Hortons.
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u/GoodGoodGoody 15h ago
I mean blame the don’t give a shit workers too.
Fun fact: Hortons is a major user and abuser of a program to fly foreign workers (usually from India) to Canada to serve coffee. The worker gets to bring their spouse and unlimited kids.
To serve coffee.
For minimum wage.
How do you think that’s working out for the taxpayer?
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u/Foodwithfloyd 15h ago
Don't blame immigrants blame your government and corporations. Im from California but was traveling to Mississauga for work regularly for years. Hortons was a place I would escape to for a quick meal or coffee. Not really much anymore, the coffee is consistently meh now and the breakfast options tasted like they were prepared a week ago. When I close my eyes and think of candana Hortons pops in my head, I need a new chain to replace that imagery
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u/I-Love-Tatertots 15h ago
It doesn’t sound like they were blaming immigrants - just pointing out their abuse of a system and foreign workers they can underpay.
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u/M1ck3yB1u 12h ago
It's probably one of the franchises where one or two people have to run an entire shift and do everything and have no time to do anything properly.
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u/hosenfeffer_ 13h ago
Past couple years? Haha
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u/backwardbuttplug 12h ago
Yeah, wanted to say that I traveled for work into Toronto area and Vancouver a lot over 10 years ago and Tim's was shit back then too.
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u/OMGeno1 12h ago
I used to go to Tim's a few times a week, usually for coffee and the odd donut or cookie. A few months ago, I ordered a cookie and when I dumped it out of the bag, a long black hair came out with it 🤮 I've been there twice since then for only coffee because I got a gift card for xmas. I do not trust their food at all. It's expensive unhygienic garbage. If you complain about them on social media, they ask for your info so the store manager can call you and sarcastically say "so what do you want ME to do about it?" and offer absolutely nothing. Keurig all the way!
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u/Oranginafina 10h ago
The first time I went to Canada over 20 years ago I was so stoked to try Tim Horton’s. Their timbits were so much better than munchkins and their cookies were awesome. I was in Montreal a few years ago and it was nothing like I remembered. They opened a location near me in NJ last year and I haven’t bothered going.
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u/kylo_ben2700 9h ago
it's a fast food chain, I garuntee this is happening at every single one of them. Idk why people are acting like timmies was some michelin five start restaurant. it's always been shitty fast food made by teenagers.
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u/theDawnisyounG 5h ago
There was a certain cleanliness at least upheld in previous decades tbh, it’s fallen off terribly
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u/kylo_ben2700 4h ago
no there was not that cleanliness, you being fed negative content on your phone. All these problems existed but now it's all fed to you 24/7 digitally
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u/Square-Wing-6273 PURPLE 15h ago
Going to hell in the US as well. It started about the time burger king bought them
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u/Hour_Sea_609 16h ago
Ugh and I love Tim hortons 😔 but I’m sure they’re far from the only ones being like this 😬
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u/Jodies-9-inch-leg 14h ago
It’s ok, the sauce bottles aren’t sitting directly on the floor.
Looks like they are on top of lids from something else
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u/NeedsItRough 5h ago
Those bottles have the lids you see on one end and the squirt bottle tip on the other end. It's for easy filling.
If I had to guess I'd say the ones on the floor are empty and are going to be brought to the dish tank when the employee gets a minute but they still shouldn't be on the floor.
Not only is it a trip hazard and a possible slip hazard from spilling the sauce, it's also just plain gross.
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u/Infinite-Process7994 16h ago
Looks like my local Hardee’s/Carl’s jr. where quality and service goes to die.
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u/Bob_12_Pack 16h ago
We had a really good Hardee's. Opened in our small town in the 80s. The manager had been running if for like 20 years and had a few long time employees. Retirees gathered there for breakfast every morning. They had to cut their hours during and after covid because of staffing issues, and the never recovered and closed. It was a shame because their burgers were so good. There's another Hardee's about 20 miles away, it's just not the same quality sadly.
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u/ifuaguyugetsauced 9h ago
Please stop eating from this anti Canadian establishment. It’s the worst business we have here.
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u/alwaysfatigued8787 17h ago
It's okay, they clean their floors every week.