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Originally Posted by Ducay
Tims outside of their coffee (debatable) and bagels is a car wreck of a chain.
Their menu fragmentation is causing all kinds of bottom line problems, not to mention they're all horrific and processed.
In the last couple years, Tims has added:
-New Dark roast coffee (as if existing coffee wasn't acidic enough)
-Meat Lasagna (comes in concentrate)
-Creamy Noodle goop (da fuq)
-Paninis
-Crispy Chicken sandwiches (don't even have deep fryers to make them crispy)
-Hashbrowns (ditto above)
-Iced Lemonades (ice slurry with lemon syrup added at end)
-Smoothies (ice slurry with non-dairy creamer syrups added)
-Latte/Cappucinos (yum powdered milk)
-Snack Wraps
Literally none of those are "good" and are forcing franchisees to carry more and more inventory, more equipment, and more costs overall. It has been run horrifically since its IPO, look at the recent Sr exec turmoil there.
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This.
The fact that Canadians eat Tim Hortons food with such fervour, shows how brutally unsophisticated the Canadian pallet really is. Their bagels are OK, their coffee is passable for a $2 cup, that's it. But you can still get a better cup at a 7-11 or Macdonalds if that's your budget. You can get better looking and tasting food at Hospital cafeterias, homeless shelters and in prisons. 2 of which I have dined at, and got a superior tasting turkey sandwich or bowl of soup. They can't even make a breakfast sandwich right. Are those even eggs in them? and a english muffin should be toasted, not soggy.
The success of this chain is mind boggling. But as long as they keep pumping out stupid commercials telling everyone that "If you are a real Canadian, you'll consume our gruel." People will keep flocking in droves. Kinda like the CFL has done with it's horrible football.
It is like some twisted social experiment, to test how disgusting of food you could feed people, that somehow gave the most impossible result ever. The worse the food, the more they consume. Somewhere there is a government scientist sitting in a lab, with a loose tie, an overflowing ashtray, and a bottle of scotch on the desk, asking himself "What is wrong with these people? Why do they keep consuming this? And why do they keep supporting the CFL?"
Ok, I'm done now. Goodnight everyone.