Milk in the cup first??? What is this Communist nonsense???
The coffee (or tea) always goes in first. THEN you add sugar, THEN milk.
Wars have been fought over this sort of thing, you know. 
My only experience with Tim Horton’s is when we went to Niagara Falls. We met up with my sister who’d been working in Toronto for a few weeks. In the two weeks that she’d been in Canada, she’d become hopelessly and embarrassingly addicted to Tim Horton’s iced cappucinos. Each morning we had to start the day finding a TH so she could get her fix. As we drove south, she made mental notes of all the Tim Horton’s she saw in Ohio so that she could make an emergency road trip should it be necessary.
Whoever Tim Horton is, he’s doing something right.
Apropos nothing, and not picking on you featherlou, but the use of sub-par/below-par has always baffled me (I see and hear it often). Technically, sub-par/below-par/under-par in golf means you’ve got your shit together and you are playing a damn fine game. Or you’re just fucking lucky once in a while.
Anyone know where/how this saying originated?
In a nutshell, he’s the (now dead) hockey player who founded the donut shop chain we’re discussing. You can get to know him better at his Wikipedia page.
“Par” has/is the same Latin root as “parity,” and was used in English to denote “average” for hundreds of years before people started spoiling perfectly good walks with that game.
Daffyd your Tim’s should be burned to the ground and paved over.
So what you’re saying is that if you shoot a six under par you are an *above * average player?
I (mostly*) gave up Tim’s recently. It was partly that I realized that another place was closer and had better coffee, so I decided to pay the extra 20 cents a cup.
It was also that I’m sick of seeing their paper cups littered everywhere and the pointless “please don’t litter” printed on them, and the way they give me a discount for my travel mug but during Roll Up the Rim to Win they ALSO hand me a paper cup (so I can play). It makes me think they don’t take waste management seriously.
It was also the battle that was required every time I tried to fill up my travel mug, I told them it was a medium (most are large, but not mine) and they looked at me like I was a thief way more often than I was comfortable with.
And it was the customer service at this store, it’s the type with four separate line-ups so if you pick the wrong one and get stuck behind a construction worker or an office worker (common in this part of town) picking up coffee and donuts and yogurt and iced capps for their 18 colleagues, you use up your entire break before you get to the front of the line.
And the aforementioned reduction in donut quality. And the fact that they sweeten their yogurt. Gross. And really, everything everyone else in this thread has said.
It was also a few bad PR incidents where their franchisees did idiotic things.
None of these would, in and of themselves, make me give up on them. But I just couldn’t take it any more. So I broke up with them.
The only problem I have with my new coffee place is that the line-up is never long enough for me to read the paper while I wait.
- I confess I do cave occasionally. Curse you, bacon breakfast sandwich!
There has got to be a name for this phenomenon: something that previously denoted high quality (“orange pekoe”) gets attached to crap (http://www.amazon.com/Lipton-Yellow-Orange-Teabags-100-Count/dp/B000N36UPI) thus making the original term synonymous with low quality.
They’re supposed to mix the drink in the size of cup specified, then pour it into the mug from that cup and throw it out. That was more of a drive-thru thing though, so you could have it prepped when they got to the window and sometimes went by the wayside on the walk ins.
Maybe I should start an Ask the (former) Tim Horton’s employee thread? If anyone would be interested. It’s been a few years since I worked there but still mostly relevant I think.
I just finished my free maple dip.
Ah, donut Wednesdays. The best day of the week.
There are a few Tim Horton’s in my neck of the woods (obviously, Ohioans are unaware that consuming Timbits is an expression of either Canadian nationalism or cannibalism). The doughnuts are OK; the sandwiches all seem to need lots of salt and pepper to taste like anything.
There’s a Tim Horton’s in the “food court” at one hospital I work in. A high percentage of its employees have what look like jailhouse tattoos. Is Tim Horton’s big on hiring ex-cons?
I must go to Wendy’s now. It is my patriotic duty.
And where do you get free donuts? Work? sighs We get them sometimes, but it’s not often and I have to stealth them from the kitchen (Okay, not really, but I like to try and sneak out with one without anyone noticing).
Was that intentional, or did you not realize that Wendy’s and Tim’s are owned by the same company? I’m not sure if you’re poking fun at the Canadian “nationalism” attached to a donut franchise owned by Americans or not, but either way I find it rather amusing. 
Only because you haven’t found a palatable way to add caffeine to your beer.
Tim Hortons was spun off from Wendy’s in 2006: Tim Hortons - Wikipedia
As far as I know, the TDL Group Corp. is a Canadian company.
If that link is correct, then Tim Hortons was NEVER an American company. They just merged with one while maintaining majority control. So, in essence, Wendy’s became a Canadian company for awhile.
That I could go for, but unfortunately all the restaurants around here (I usually get Iced Tea to avoid colas with all their sugar) seem to think that Sweet Tea means “let’s put as much sugar in as humanly possible, and then maybe add some more.” And good luck getting mint in it.
I like Arnold Palmers, too. Slightly sweet, but I only order it from a restaurant that makes its own lemonade, so it’s no drowning in it. Yummy!
i mean, yes, they have decent coffee, and the doghnuts are OK. Other than that, its just like any other Dunkin Donuts, Winchells, etc.
There are 4 Timmie’s within 5 miles of my house and I live in the country, like in the middle of nowhere.
I hate their coffee, but not as much as I hate Starbuck’s. I like only one kind of doughnut: old-fashioned glazed. So, this morning at coffee time I thought I’d bring the crew some doughnuts and THEY WERE OUT OF DOUGHNUTS BEFORE 10 AM!!! WTF? They had Long Johns and crullers and bagels and whatnot, but the only doughnuts they had were ones with sprinkles, or those vile chocolate creations and the rest that no one really orders - the same ones have been on the shelf since the store opened, I’m sure.
I said, “What do you mean, you’re out of doughnuts? Make some more!!!”
“The baker went home already,” she said, not looking me in the eye.
The baker, my foot.
Not a happy experience. And I still want a doughnut, eh?
Round here (Toronto) I don’t recall seeing a Dunkin Donuts and I’ve never heard of Winchells. There are Coffee Times (which are only found in sketchy neighbourhoods, it seems) and Country Styles (but I haven’t seen one in a while), and TH is worlds ahead of them in terms of product selection and freshness.
I don’t know about any other national coffee / donut chains. If you don’t want a Starbucks type place, Tims is really the main event. For instance, if you’re out of town and you want a coffee, if you go to Tim Hortons you know exactly what you’ll get. It’s the only place (in my part of the world, anyway) that plays that role.