Tim Horton price increase.

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Looks like it will cost you more to have a cup of coffee. I recently found MD's coffee taste pretty good.

[shannn]

Yet, Tim Horton's will stay as popular as ever...sigh

Tim Horton's has gone down hill soooo much over the past decade

[factum7000]

Yet, Tim Horton's will stay as popular as ever...sigh

Tim Horton's has gone down hill soooo much over the past decade

I agree. The coffee is awful and the doughnuts even more so. I don't understand why the masses buy coffee from them.

[tlamm]

Just another trend that will die off over the next decade.

[carmaster]

McDonald's will take over if Tims increases its prices.

[slowtyper]

I think McD has better coffee than tims. I head there when I need a fix before driving home after work.

[Siefer999]

McDonald's will take over if Tims increases its prices.

mcdonalds keeps their prices at tim hortons level. if tim hortons increases their prices, it will give them an opportunity to raise theirs as well. the only thing holding mcds back from raising their prices (as they do everything else) is tims market domination. the second wendys jacks up all their $1.39 menu items, mcdonalds will do the same.


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regardless of tims increase, people will still go there. there will always be line ups in the morning and early afternoon. if they lose customers, it means shorter lines for me if i ever do go there.

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Just another trend that will die off over the next decade.

coffee has gotten quite popular as of late. young people are drinking coffee more than ever. it is the new smoking. even if it does level off in popularity, you will still have a whole bunch of addicted people who need their coffee fix.

[originalnutta]

im glad i don't drink coffee, nor do i need to go Tim's.

[adamtheman]

I remember once, at around noon, I was driving by the Tim Hortons and there were so many cars in the drive thru that I stopped to count, I counted 16 cars....... 16 CARS! They were stretched out all the way to the back of the parking lot and wrapped around. We all know tim hortons is busy, but usually 6-7 cars... people are just insane. Tim hortons has the absolute worst setup of any fast food chain, except maybe starbucks. But SB and TH are horrible, starbucks usually only has 2 tills, and it takes forever for some of their coffees. Timmys on the other hand has maybe 3 tills at the high traffic locations, but that doesnt' help when there's 40 people in the line up. I think like most people, I gave up on tim hortons, haven't gone there in over a year now... always was far too busy. Now you go to mcdonalds, they have 8 tills... usually 4 of them open, but if a line-up starts up, it seems like the other 4 tills open up real quick. How come mcdonalds has 8 tills and tim hortons has 2? I've never waited more than 2-3 minutes at a mcdonalds to order food, but 15-20 min at tim hortons.

[AudiDude]

I really can't believe people can drink that swill. I also can't believe how people keep going after they:

1. Give poor service (the server gets you what they were thinking, not what you ordered)
2. Shrink the doughnuts to the size of cheerios and the cup sizes to the sample size similar to what they give at the supermarket to try a new product.
3. Make the coffee burnt and crappy tasting.

Geez, get a coffee machine for home and drink real coffee and save money at the same time.

[joeyjoejoe]

I remember once, at around noon, I was driving by the Tim Hortons and there were so many cars in the drive thru that I stopped to count, I counted 16 cars....... 16 CARS! They were stretched out all the way to the back of the parking lot and wrapped around. We all know tim hortons is busy, but usually 6-7 cars... people are just insane. Tim hortons has the absolute worst setup of any fast food chain, except maybe starbucks. But SB and TH are horrible, starbucks usually only has 2 tills, and it takes forever for some of their coffees. Timmys on the other hand has maybe 3 tills at the high traffic locations, but that doesnt' help when there's 40 people in the line up. I think like most people, I gave up on tim hortons, haven't gone there in over a year now... always was far too busy. Now you go to mcdonalds, they have 8 tills... usually 4 of them open, but if a line-up starts up, it seems like the other 4 tills open up real quick. How come mcdonalds has 8 tills and tim hortons has 2? I've never waited more than 2-3 minutes at a mcdonalds to order food, but 15-20 min at tim hortons.

I know what you mean, the Timmies by my place will have cars wrapped around the building and out onto the street during the morning, but seems to have 3-4 cars in line at all times! That's a lot of pollution for cars just idling.

I'm done with Timmies. I used to get it at an Esso every morning, since the lines were much shorter and the McDonalds on the route to work did not offer the coffee & muffin deal. But now with a new job, I'm back at McDonalds! I will admit, I don't like this new trend of people switching to McDonalds... I did enjoy the short to no lines! Now it's usually 10-15 people.

[originalnutta]

People go to Tim's because it's convenient.

There are more Tim's than McDonalds, and some have two drive up windows, or are just drive up windows.

People are lazy and don't want to get out of their cars, and would rather risk sub par service and food at a higher price.

I hate Tim's. The food is terrible, the workers don't care about their jobs and i dont blame them. The prices don't reflect the service and quality given. The company doesn't seem to be doing anything to curb the pollution problem, and seems to encourage it, by doubling up on cups, and letting cars idle in it's drive thru lane. And on top of all that, its smacks us in the face with this image of being Canadiana.

[wszeto28]

People go to Tim's because it's convenient.

There are more Tim's than McDonalds, and some have two drive up windows, or are just drive up windows.

People are lazy and don't want to get out of their cars, and would rather risk sub par service and food at a higher price.

I hate Tim's. The food is terrible, the workers don't care about their jobs and i dont blame them. The prices don't reflect the service and quality given. The company doesn't seem to be doing anything to curb the pollution problem, and seems to encourage it, by doubling up on cups, and letting cars idle in it's drive thru lane. And on top of all that, its smacks us in the face with this image of being Canadiana.

I would say Timmies food is decent. The only change that I've noticed is their switch from shredded lettuce to pieces of lettuce. Their chicken got worse as well since it tastes like rubber now. But other than that, I think everything else has been pretty much the same.

It seems that a lot of you expect too much out of Timmies. When you say the prices don't reflect the service. I think we can all agree that Timmies is not overly expensive, so I wouldn't walk in there demanding the royal treatment. You can complain about the pollution but if Timmies were to actually do something about it, I'm sure prices would rise and then we would be getting complaints about rising prices. You complain about doubling up on cups, yet when ppl get burned by hot coffee/tea, you complain about that too. You complain about letting cars idle. It would seem this is the general concept of a drive through. It's either let cars idle or remove the drive through completely, which will undoubtedly generate more complaints.

There's no satisfying everyone but I'm sure Timmies is doing it's best in trying to satisfy the majority of the market. Prices of everything has gone up lately so I don't see why this would be a shock to anyone.

[Poepoies]

I don't understand why people buy food from timmies?

Sandwiches are usually dry, boring, unflavourful... reminds me of what my mom forced me to take to school when I was a kid...

and its not CHEAP!


I'ld buy a coffee and get a $4 torpedo which is twice the value of a baguette sandwich at Tim's

[rems]

bring your own cup and save 10 cents...