Canadians equate Tim Horton's to the USPS motto "“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion"

Ours (Ohio) USED to be 24/7
Now my local is just 5a-11p.
The ones in Columbus Ohio, close by 7pm .
Started before COVID. Not long after the RBI buy out.

So now when I go to visit my buddy in Columbus, I have to be on the road by no later that 6:30 if I want to get a coffee for the 2 hr drive home.
 
y_p_w said:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/02/king-...ng-crown-given-to-him-by-fan-on-germany-tour/

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Probably a rule against wearing any other crowns.
Similar to the rule they have against sitting on any other thrones,
When the Late Queen Elizabeth II visited the set of "Game of Thrones" everyone wanted a picture of her on the iron throne... She said she was not allowed to sit on any other thrones, even fictional ones.
 
Number_35 said:
I walked 10 km earlier today in pretty terrible conditions (-29°C with a brisk crosswind). I stopped in at a Tim's downtown for a large tea with cream and sugar, and a 4-cheese bagel with cream cheese.

I was very glad to find a place open.
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No pictures?? 😔
 
earlyre said:
Probably a rule against wearing any other crowns.
Similar to the rule they have against sitting on any other thrones,
When the Late Queen Elizabeth II visited the set of "Game of Thrones" everyone wanted a picture of her on the iron throne... She said she was not allowed to sit on any other thrones, even fictional ones.
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She was immune from prosecution in the UK and any country that's part of the monarchy. I wouldn't think she was so worried about getting prosecuted but that she should do the "right thing".
 
GON said:
No pictures?? 😔
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I considered taking a photo of an electronic sign which was showing -29°C, but declined because I would have had to take off my mitts - and then my wife phoned to see if I was OK. I was, but had to keep the conversation short as my fingers holding the phone started to go numb.

We joke about our tolerance for the cold, but in fact no one likes this extreme weather.

The fresh air and bright sun were really good for me though! I was out for about two hours - around 1:40 walking, and 20 minutes at Tim Horton's.
 
Being in MD I don’t get to a Tim Hortons often but would always go when my travels too me north. One time I was near Jamestown, NY and was getting ready to drive back to MD at the end of the work day. Pulled through and ordered a XL black coffee with an espresso shot and the girl on the other side of the speaker paused for a second, “ew” :ROFLMAO:
 
I've been off such doughnuts since well before my current, 2.5 year strong, war on carbohydrates.
However, I just want to 'share and ask'.

DD coffee was superb when I drank it in the later 1970s.
In short, the coffee went weak and the doughnuts seemed made of stone. I wouldn't touch 'em...and that was in my 20s!
The ask is: Have the TH doughnut and coffee offerings also gone...mediocre?
 
Kira said:
I've been off such doughnuts since well before my current, 2.5 year strong, war on carbohydrates.
However, I just want to 'share and ask'.

DD coffee was superb when I drank it in the later 1970s.
In short, the coffee went weak and the doughnuts seemed made of stone. I wouldn't touch 'em...and that was in my 20s!
The ask is: Have the TH doughnut and coffee offerings also gone...mediocre?
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I don't drink much coffee but on the donuts...yes. There are various much better, local options available where I am, none of which freeze their offerings....
 
Sedin26 said:
The donuts used to be baked in store but a lot of the food has been frozen and shipped out from a central location for many years now. Quality is poor…
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Dunkin Donuts used to bake them each morning at 4am and bake fresh every couple hours.

That was before they stopped making hand-cut donuts, sold out to Baskin Robbins, and renamed themselves Dunkin’. They have a total of 12,871 locations versus 5,701 for Tim Hortons (in 2019, numbers are lower now).

Starbucks has over 40,000. In the U.S., Starbucks is the #1 chain in every state except Minnesota, where Caribou is #1, and Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, where Dunkins is #1.

There are 58 Dunkins in Boston.

https://flytrippers.com/map-countries-tim-hortons/
 
A large number of my coffee drinking friends switched from Tim’s to McDonald’s coffee a few years ago and recently McDonald’s lowered their price on coffee so you can get a small for $1, medium for $1.25 and large for $1.50. Tim’s prices vary by location but the one near me wants $1.83 for a medium and it’s one of the cheaper regions. So if you’re buying a coffee every day that difference means a lot and when the cheaper coffee is better that’s a win.

I don’t drink hot coffee but I drink iced coffee and I prefer McDonald’s for that as well. And I have also bought each of their coffees as hot coffees and made them into iced coffee and it’s the same result there too, I still prefer McDonald’s. Plus Tim Hortons changed their points structure on their app a year or two ago and it takes way longer to get any rewards while the McDonald’s app has quicker rewards.
 
Patman said:
A large number of my coffee drinking friends switched from Tim’s to McDonald’s coffee a few years ago and recently McDonald’s lowered their price on coffee so you can get a small for $1, medium for $1.25 and large for $1.50. Tim’s prices vary by location but the one near me wants $1.83 for a medium and it’s one of the cheaper regions. So if you’re buying a coffee every day that difference means a lot and when the cheaper coffee is better that’s a win.

I don’t drink hot coffee but I drink iced coffee and I prefer McDonald’s for that as well. And I have also bought each of their coffees as hot coffees and made them into iced coffee and it’s the same result there too, I still prefer McDonald’s. Plus Tim Hortons changed their points structure on their app a year or two ago and it takes way longer to get any rewards while the McDonald’s app has quicker rewards.
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Ya, but McDonalds doesn’t have Roll Up the Rim to Win.
 
That’s not and has never been the USPS motto. That phrase was coined by the architects McKim Mead & White.
I learned the hard way at Jacob Farley
 
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