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Who ruined Tim Hortons? (youtu.be)

submitted 3 days ago by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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We all know who dun it, but Hazel makes some great comedy of it. 😊

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can go to McDonalds and pay $2 for an extra large double double which, imo, tastes better than the mud Timmies provides which costs more.

The food has also gotten worse. Timbits taste like crap and most places now will only make you like at most 4 different flavours of timbits. It's just overall crap. If they had just focused on coffee and donuts then awesome but they decided to try to make everything under the sun and none of it is good. Hell they even do pizza now.

It also doesn't help that the majority of their employees have no clue what they're doing and they simply don't care. hell I don't blame them for caring, it's a minimum wage bullshit job, but when you end up standing at the mobile order counter for longer than standing in line to order then what's the point? you gotta wait until one of them cares enough to acknowledge that you ordered for a mobile pickup.

It's just overpriced crap.

[+] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca -11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

on the topic of minimum wage jobs and not caring, it doesn't matter what the wage is, you agreed to work the duties outlined to you. I'm not saying becoming a star employee and going above and beyond, but i mean if don't like your job and decide to slack off, don't be surprised if your fired or a customer complains about you.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Working at all isn't a choice, it's forced onto people by the pressures of society. People who are either starting out or freshly immigrated here will have no choice but to take those low pay bullshit jobs that don't pay enough to let you rent your own apartment.

No one agreed to work, we are forced to work. Some have a choice of career, some do not.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago

You must be very miserable to go Into every job you have that's even min wage to think like this. Yeah it's not a cakewalk but dooming and glooming at work is anti-social behavior and sure talking about it with co-workers is great and fine it's good to have someone who gets you, but your also going to try to make the best out of your time at work. I'm by no means rich or Wealthy and quite the opposite but I enjoy my life still because I know that I'm alive and I get some sense of enjoyment from it.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You get what you pay for. Don't be surprised when you pay employees like shit, treat said employees like shit, and then they stop giving a shit about making your business succeed or fluorish. Want good loyal workers? Pay and treat them properly.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago

you think that tim hortions is going to pay a higher wage for pouring coffee and making a bagel? If you think its tough there don't ever work at starbucks, that job is a hellhole.

[–] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ten years ago, twenty years ago, Tim’s was always rubbish. The coffee is battery acid and the food is unfit for human consumption. I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t shit.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Their donuts were great until around 25 years ago (?) when they switched away from baking them in house. Their sandwiches were pretty good when they were first introduced, too. Then they were bought out by Burger King and started degrading the quality of their ingredients—when they switched from cheddar to processed cheese was the last time I ordered one of their sandwiches.

I don't understand why they're still so popular. Who the hell is buying enough crappy coffee and food from then to keep them open? You can get far better coffee and food from almost any of their competitors, for the same price or less even.

[–] kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is just how he tries to make deals. Spook people into freaking out and hastily agreeing to a bad deal. This is one of those moments where I’m glad it’s Carney at the helm. I don’t need him to be perfect I just need him to steer our country through this mess so we can come out the other side intact.

If there is an other side.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I think you were trying to comment in this thread, or similar: https://lemmy.ca/post/53909628

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Don't suffer from false nostalgia, it was never good.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

no one was ever forcing you to buy it.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The selection of treats in the 90s was way better, and everything is overly sweetened now.

Like their salted caramel butter tarts… you don’t need the salted caramel, it’s a fucking butter tart. The caramel is the worst part.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe as you got old you lost your capacity for sweet? You're viewing your memory through the lens of time.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

In some respects yes, but I stand by the caramel is ruining the tart.

Also they did make the donuts more cakey

[–] uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Chili in a bread bowl was peak Tim Hortons.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

And it was still pretty mid. When I was young I liked spaghetti-o's.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I honestly remember it being good... in the 1980s. The doughnuts were gloriously big and fresh.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The coffee maybe, but the rest (staff/service, prices, donuts) def got worse over the years.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

its because they don't hire quality workers. but that's store dependent. i was at a store where this supervisor or manager (was not sure) would yell at her workers like it was a military line to do orders and stuff and it was nuts. If that was my manager id tell her to watch her tone with me and talk to me more respectfully. I've been to stores where the staff seem ok but they don't work very fast or are just understaffed from what i can tell with the amount of customers waiting. Of course Tims expected this with the expansion of offerings that are not quick to serve like coffee or a doughnut.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah the staffing seems to be a shit show. Lots of stores replaced their local workers with TFWs who aren't allowed to work for anyone else so they take the abuse or else they go back home. Often language skill is lacking and it's not like store owners hiring them would pay for language classes, so communication with customers sucks.

But the drop in food quality and prices - muffins, donuts, etc. - that's all coming from the corporate supply chain. Gotta make money for the boss'es yachts. That's the boss of 3G Capital, owner of Restaurant Brands International, which owns Timmies.