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Timmy Ho's is the "taste of Canada" to me. Thankfully we've had it "back home" now for a long time. So it is the local coffee place now too. @dominica and I bought our first house right behind the then new Tim Horton's in Geneseo, NY. I would walk to it at night from the house. So awesome to be able to walk to a 24x7 coffee place from home.
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Love Timmy's
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I never even realized it was such a national identity until I moved out east where you can not walk for more than 20 minutes in any direction without running into one haha. I grew up on starbucks
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I've never heard of Timmy's.
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I don't think I have seen any Tim Hortons (http://www.timhortons.com/us/en/index.php) any farther south than just on the PA. I doubt you have seen in on Virginia at all.
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@MattSpeller said:
I never even realized it was such a national identity until I moved out east where you can not walk for more than 20 minutes in any direction without running into one haha. I grew up on starbucks
It's spilled over the border now and completely displaced everything else in the US. Radiating out from Buffalo (the breach point, if you will) Tim Horton's is into like eight states now. And wherever it goes it kills everything else. That part of the US far more identifies with Toronto either as being a Toronto suburb directly or just cultural affinity whereas Starbucks is from Seattle and might as well be a completely different region. So Tim Horton's is seen as local, Starbucks is seen as the foreign, big box invader. The northeast likes their stuff local, not imported from the west coast.
Tim Horton's does so well that they can open directly across the street from a Starbucks. That's exactly what they did in Geneseo. Took only about one year for the Starbucks to close and leave town completely!
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@scottalanmiller They're also much less expensive than SB - there were nearly riots across eastern Canada when they wanted to raise prices on coffee by more than 10 cents
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There are Tim Horton's stores all over Columbus, OH. I believe that that is the last major southwestern outpost of the chain at this point. But given how many are there, Cincinnati will be soon. There are already a handful there.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller They're also much less expensive than SB - there were nearly riots across eastern Canada when they wanted to raise prices on coffee by more than 10 cents
Less expensive is minor. Open 24x7 and with good food is a huge boost. Better coffee, 24x7, cheaper, with actual food. It blows SB away.
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I love their breakfast wraps and missed seeing them and DDs all over every corner while in Texas. Down there it's all Subway and Starbucks...sad really...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller They're also much less expensive than SB - there were nearly riots across eastern Canada when they wanted to raise prices on coffee by more than 10 cents
Less expensive is minor. Open 24x7 and with good food is a huge boost. Better coffee, 24x7, cheaper, with actual food. It blows SB away.
So it's like a less sketchy waffle house?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Better coffee
I wouldn't go that far lol - I'll take a starbucks americano anyday
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller They're also much less expensive than SB - there were nearly riots across eastern Canada when they wanted to raise prices on coffee by more than 10 cents
Less expensive is minor. Open 24x7 and with good food is a huge boost. Better coffee, 24x7, cheaper, with actual food. It blows SB away.
So it's like a less sketchy waffle house?
Don't mention Tim Horton's in the same sentence as Waffle House!
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Better coffee
I wouldn't go that far lol - I'll take a starbucks americano anyday
You like your coffee burnt?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
So it's like a less sketchy waffle house?
With clean bathrooms. Driving across Canada it's basically the best place to.... #2.
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And they keep expanding their food menu most of them here also have a ColdStone Creamery in them. I do business lunches there often coffee, soup and a sandwhich and free wifi. Gets me out of my house every once in awhile.
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@Minion-Queen said:
And they keep expanding their food menu most of them here also have a ColdStone Creamery in them. I do business lunches there often coffee, soup and a sandwhich and free wifi. Gets me out of my house every once in awhile.
Oh yeah...that right there. Win.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
So it's like a less sketchy waffle house?
No. WH is a diner. A very American diner. TH is a coffee shop. It's clean and bright and high end, like Starbucks. Not sketchy in the least. Very classy. You have business meetings there. You bring your MacBook and pretend to be a hipster. You get a muffin and drink coffee all morning.
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@MattSpeller said:
I wouldn't go that far lol - I'll take a starbucks americano anyday
I've been spoiled with real cafe Americano, Starbucks doesn't cut it. I've had Lavazza in Italy. I've had Cafe New York in Tuscany!!
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Better coffee
I wouldn't go that far lol - I'll take a starbucks americano anyday
You like your coffee burnt?
Exactly. The baristas at SB don't know how to make coffee and they burn the crap out of it. It tastes nothing like a real cafe Americano. No one working at a SB has ever had proper coffee or they'd know that it was all screwed up.
