From a corporate press release:
Tim Hortons has 184 restaurants in the U.S. – western New York, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Maine – and 2,358 restaurants in Canada.Why Kentucky?
I have noticed my former Tim's loyalty, developed over the best part of 20 years, has now for all practical purposes disappeared along with the real baking they used to offer. Nothing planned, not a boycott, but certainly disinterest in the glommy version of the chocolate timbit. Plus the new egg salad sandwich is a salt lick. At least the Orangeville version.
I suppose this is good. The current ad campaign for their 40th anniversary focuses on old guys recalling 40 years worth of memories triggered, for example, by finding an old Tim's cup filled with nails at the work bench. I thought it was interesting that they are not running an ad based, say, on 40 years of horking back a half dozen maple dips or apple fritters a day. I guess those guys didn't quite make the anniversary.
Comments
Alan - May 30, 2004 10:06 am
Well that's good - just make sure there is a jug of water handy when they break out the egg salad sandwiches. Reminded me of the kids in the hall skit about the salty ham.
Which one? The first was at Tatamagouch in NS near where I used to work.
brendan - June 29, 2004 3:27 pm
i went to camp kenthon in kentucky summer of 2003 in sceion 6. my cachulers were Ranch and Netron they were the best but so were all the others people like hobs misss u all at camp hope i can come again
Alan - August 9, 2004 11:47 am
While at a Tims in Quebec over the weekend I noticed the poster for the kids camps and saw that there was now one being advertised in Kentucky. Years ago, I suspected the first one in Nova Scotia was an excuse to build a corporate retreat but at six camps they are going great guns. Too bad their fritters have gone in the other direction since the dropping of local baking. Still, I have held off of the Krispy Kreme, even as ubiquitous as it was in PA.
vanessa - August 19, 2004 5:57 pm
i went to kentucky last year it was soo much fun, and i just camp bak from my second year at camp. I went to parry sound for the leadership program. I hope i get to come back next year.