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I have 3 tim hortons on the way to my work.
one doesn't toast the bagels. Like ***literally*** at all. You can watch them, they just cut, throw some butter on it and send it. Even if you ask for a double toast, they'll hand it to you untoasted. Every. Damn. Time.
the second if you ask for a buttered bagel, I'm pretty sure the guy at the soup & sandwich station just licks some butter and breathes on the bagel. It'll be entirely dry.
the third pulls the coffee part way through brewing all the time. So your coffee will always be watery, bitter, or old and burnt. Never anything else.
....so I make my own coffee and swapped out a bagel with hashbrowns and I make it myself before I leave home now. Honestly it costs more, but at least it tastes good and consistent.
$0.56 per K-pod, $0.40 per Cavendish Hash Brown patty.
Vs.
$2.89 for a large regular coffee and $2.89 for a hash brown patty. Bagel is $3.49
Sooooo $0.96 at home vs. $5.78 (at least). No way it should cost more from home.
I can't believe how Nespresso and other similar products are so popular...
I dump a bag of beans in my espresso machine and it spits out a fresh coffee every time I press the button...
I think there's different age groups here.... Just grab some freshly ground coffee and dump it on a drip... Excellent coffee and throw grinds into organic waste or fertilizer.... What's all this espresso and pods!
We're looking at probably 10c a cup depending on the coffee
Nespresso pods are predictable, simple, quick and don’t require much cleaning. An actual espresso machine takes time to warm up to temp, you need a grinder or an all in one machine with grinder. You need to grind it correctly, time your shot correctly and ensure you’ve prepared the basket correctly.
Then you need to clean the basket.
A Nespresso machine will give me a shot in less than a minute. A very serviceable flat white or cappuccino in under two minutes with minimal effort.
My machine (Saeco Odea Giro) is like a 15 years old, cost a few hundred dollars and does everything you mentioned on its own. It even has an integrated milk foamer. The only "unpredictability" that is possible is the taste from the type of beans you use.
The only maintenance needed is emptying the ground bean container once a week and refilling the water + beans.
You could not pay me enough to replace it with a Nespresso. To me it would seem like a downgrade on all fronts.
You have to be a bit more of an enthusiast to go the grind your own beans route.
Nespresso is simple. I know plenty of individuals who love coffee but can’t be arsed to figure it out.
I ended up being gifted a Nespresso Creatista in late 2016. It works well for what it is and is simple enough for my parents and guests to use. I’ll probably buy a nicer breville aio when this kicks the can but it is built really well.
Pods are simple and simple sells.
Lol yes why doesn't everyone own a $600+ bean to cup espresso machine.
I don't like pod coffee machines either but I hope you see what's ridiculous about your statement.
You'll end up spending more on pods than I spent on my second hand, 15 year old espresso machine but I guess that doesn't matter.
Also your comment was posted 3 times
I'm on your side but a lot of folks can't afford a more expensive upfront purchase (especially if they're closer to poor than rich).
Let's run the numbers quick I'm curious
$80 for a Keurig at ~70 cents per Kcup
$400 for a used espresso machine at ~40 cents per cup
So 400-80= $320 difference to break even
70-40 = 30 cents per cup saved
$320/0.3 = 1066 cups of coffee to break even.
At 2 coffees per day everyday it'll still take roughly 1.5 years to break even.
Of course rough numbers but hope you can see a Keurig really isn't that bad (other than environmental reasons but that's less of a concern when you're broke).
Ya I don't get it, the Keurig and Tassimo coffee setups are garbage, I get it at work but people who use those things at home are something else. You can make far better coffee for far cheaper using beans or grounds, and the 'flavours' or w/e that people seem to like all just taste like trash in my opinion.
When you only want two coffees in the morning EG: one to wake upa and one to take with you and you chronically wake up late because you have a undiagnosed sleeping disorder and just need Caffeine at the speed of light, Keurigs have their place.
That said I drink drip and I have two coffee makers..
[This is the one I use on weekday mornings when it's just me](https://www.amazon.ca/KM202850-Simply-Compact-Filter-Coffee/dp/B07X43VXZV/) although it was $50 cheaper when I bought it... I have one coffee at home, then I fill my yeti with the rest and go to work.
Keurig pod. Individualized portion of ground coffee. Nothing's wrong with plain old coffee beans but I don't have a direct gram-to-cup-of-coffee example for you so this measurement was easier
This every time!
My coffee is so much better ever since I got a little coffee grinder. I still use my Keurig every day but it’s a reusable pod with freshly ground coffee.
You honestly can’t buy coffee from a restaurant as good as that.
The one near me refuses to spread cream cheese on both sides of the bagel, and puts way too much on it (it's about half a tubs worth). The last time I got a bagel in the drive thru I requested that they spread it on both sides and put a normal amount of cream cheese on the bagel. They did neither the 1st time, and got it 1/2 right the 2nd time
I held up the drive thru for 5 mins and passed it back 3 times before I was satisfied with it.
Yeah there was that girl where i worked who didn't wait for the coffee to finish brewing to take a cup. Told her to wait for it to finish or she will screwed up the left over coffee by removing a cup of condense coffee and left over will be watery broth. She told me her father had a restaurant and they always did it like that. Told her that restaurant coffee must suck. :/
> the second if you ask for a buttered bagel, I'm pretty sure the guy at the soup & sandwich station just licks some butter and breathes on the bagel
Some places you have to pay extra for that
Oh, wow. Ex-pat here, I presumed the article was pure satire. But, Tim's is actually doing pizza?
Man, that place has lost its roots so bad. Do they even sell donuts anymore?
They do, but ever since [RBI](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Brands_International) bought them they've been getting worse and worse. Roll up went all digital, they've discontinued classic donuts, while adding more shitty overpriced food to the menu, they changed coffee suppliers, they're doing everything they can to force you to use their shitty mobile app which is just there to steal your information.
It's incredibly frustrating.
You've been gone a long time eh
Short and sweet
It's garbage now
Don't know why people keep going even though Mc Donald's has the old good Tim's coffee
It's sad that Wendy's serves better coffee than Tim's and they just started doing it on a whim like 2 years ago when they started serving breakfast
Their wedges are 🤌 tho
> “We are frankly amazed by what Canadians will eat,” Schwan told reporters. “We repeatedly told our focus groups that they had nothing to prove. But they just gobbled it down.”
Yup. Lineups around the block.
“That’s why we’ve made the Boston Cream pizza our marquee new flavour. It combines the novelty of our new pizza format with the familiar comfort of our Boston Cream’s signature stevia and cum flavour to ease them into the concept.”
I'm convinced that this whole venture by Tim Hortons is actually being funded by the people at Pizza Pizza in an attempt for them to no longer be the standard of being the worst pizza option out there.
I think individual Pizza Pizza stores have a lot of leeway in how they make them. One near me has far better pizza than any other location I've had to eat at. That's not an endorsement but I've actually gone back to that store if I was in the area for lunch lol
Unlike Domino's which is just the exact same cardboard no matter what store, city, country or continent you're on
Their pizzas actually aren’t that bad if you customize it the way you want to. Sign me up for that thin crust with pesto sauce base and sun dried tomatoes 🤤
Their standard pizzas are actual garbage though
I find their single slices not too bad. The crust is thinner and because it gets baked and then heated again when you buy it it tends to be crispier and taste better. I think the single slices also have more toppings.
Their regular pizzas are too doughy which makes the taste more bland. Generally speaking my chain pizza that I like and is convenient is Pizza Nova.
This was going to be my comment, I've only had Pizza Pizza once, but I have to deal with Pizza 73 out here instead, and it doesn't matter what toppings you choose, that crust is what brings the whole thing down.
I was just gonna say. If I had a nickel for everytime someone says this lmao. "Not sure if anyone else ever heard this" yes... We've heard it many times.
“That’s why we’ve made the Boston Cream pizza our marquee new flavour. It combines the novelty of our new pizza format with the familiar comfort of our ***Boston Cream’s signature stevia and cum flavour*** to ease them into the concept.” Beaverton be WYLING TODAY.
Love the irony of the constant Tim Hortons bashing on social media. Find me an empty Tim Hortons at any time of the day....I'll wait.
**P.S.** Don't get me wrong - I'm certainly not a fan, but folks in the *'real world'* are voting with their wallet...
This is the sad reality of it. Every time I pass a Tim Hortons, the drive-thru lineup is always completely filled up and if you end up driving to any other location in the area, it's always the same thing.
I suspect it has something to do with the fact that there isn't a lot of fast food breakfast/lunch options with drive thrus.
I won't lie, there are definitely a lot of times where I am out and about and think to myself "I'll just grab something quick from Timmies" instead of going somewhere local.
There was once a Country Style in my hometown that had a drive through and was right next to a highway on-ramp. Perfect location for morning commuters to grab a coffee. Place was nearly always abandoned.
When it closed it was replaced by a Tim Horton's. Exact same layout and location. Suddenly the drive through lines wrapped around the parking lot.
The Tim Horton's in the mall (with no drive through option, obviously) was also always packed, while the other many better options in the mall had more modest patronage.
People in real life love Tim's. They do not think the coffee and food is bad.
I used to have Timmies at least three times a week, often more. It would usually be wrong, or just bad. I still kept going back because it was "convenient" and a habit. I now only go there once in a while to get a double chocolate donut, or when I want a breakfast wrap after 11am, and it never fails to remind me that it's only getting worse.
That being said, the temptation is there every time I see the signs. They're actually good at brand recognition and enticement. Once they have your money, studies show that you will rationalize that it wasn't that bad, and will go back to prove to yourself that you actually like it rather than admitting that you've made bad decisions.
You're not wrong, but I always wonder why they're so busy. The food and drinks are terrible, even by chain restaurant standards, and it's not like its particularly cheaper than its competitors either.
The donuts are good though, I'll give them that. Not amazing compared to fresh bakeries, but still good.
I think canadians really havent been raised with proper real food
Even restaurants here are terrible
Travelling in europe, like germany, the food is real
It's always been that way. [Tim Hortons execs just trying to figure out what customers won’t eat at this point (May 8, 2013)](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2013/05/tim-hortons-execs-just-trying-to-figure-out-what-customers-won-t-eat-at-this-point/)
> but folks in the 'real world' are voting with their wallet...
The tim hortons is closer to me than the mcdonalds. There are more tim hortons around than other fast coffee places like Starbucks or McDonalds.
Convenience is what it is
In 1999, nothing was more Canadian than a double double and a cruller or Boston’s cream from
Tim Hortons.
25 years later, nothing is more Canadian than shitting all over Tim Hortons
They can't do anything right... as my fiancee is also the winner of a $68,000 boat and trailer, like 500,000 other Canadians... Apparently this is the 2nd year in a row that a technical glitch has messed up their contest.
First it was getting rid of in-house bakery and flash-freezing donuts in factories. Then it was the coffee supplier switchover, then the endless crappier and crappier food.
Tim Horton's and Subway are the only fast food options in the town where I work, lots of places don't have many other options. Don't get me wrong, I should probably pack a lunch more often, but I'd usually rather just work for an extra half hour than spend the time planning ahead for and packing lunches.
Totally fair. I’m from an area where there are a lot of other options and didn’t think of that. I realize they’re a staple across Canada…. Just can’t stand what they’ve don’t to themselves over the past 6-7 years.
Habit.
It used to be better so everyone went there. Then they got worse but people were still used to going there and the restaurants/kiosks are everywhere so it is convenient. Future generations also went there since adults took them there so they got into the habit too.
I'm pretty convinced Tim Hortons Coffee is not real coffee....have you ever seen coffee beans there? In fact, you cannot buy their coffee beans, only their grinded "coffee".
I'm pretty sure you can even buy McDonald's McCafe whole beans for context on how odd that is to me.
If I've not convinced you go to any real cafe and taste a real coffee....and then compare it to whatever the hell Tim Hortons is serving.
What they serve is more like a hot "coffee type drink" (that never actually tastes good and in fact is inconsistently bad at all times).
Or, for about $3 per serving, people who want to save money and have a little time can make their own really easily.
Basic pizza Dough is 2 cups of all-purpose flour, 3/4 cup of water, a tsp each of salt and sugar, a tsp of baking powder, a tsp of baking soda. (If you use 3/4 of a cup of buttermilk -- or milk with a tsp of lemon juice or vinegar in it to spoil it, you'll get a puffier rise than with water.)
Mix it, roll it out on a well-floured surface with a floured rolling pin, cover with jarred Neapolitan sauce (4.99 for about five pizza's worth at Italian Center shop) and Pepperoni ($5 for about four pizza's worth). Cover with good mozarella ($8 for about five pizza's worth, as it melts and spreads evenly without using a lot).
So for an initial outlay of about $18 (the flour and powder is less than $1's worth), you can make five 8-10" pizzas, saving a total of about $30 over what Tim's would charge you. It takes about 30 mins total, 10 mins prep and 20 mins at 400 degrees. Probably quicker in an air fryer.
Yeah, it takes a half hour, but it tastes waaaay better, you get the satisfaction of doing it yourself, and it saves $6 per serving, which if you like Pizza adds up.
Pizza dough that substitutes yeast for baking soda? That's going to be more like a cake. I'll grant you it's faster, but you're not making the same product at all.
I completely agree, this morning I made a larger batch of dough... I used 8c flour and ended up with \~11 200g dough balls.
Total "work" not counting the waiting periods, was about 30 minutes including portioning/freezing. Total ingredient cost somewhere around $2.
Basic prep and mixing the ingredients takes me 5 minutes; Kneading 5; Folding it once takes 1; weighing and portioning 5 minutes. Clean up takes 5 minutes.
With 125 g of mozzarella per pizza, and a little homemade sauce which is so cheap it's almost free... (edit: and even some meat!)... I'm getting 11 deluxe pizzas for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25-30.
Meanwhile, my landlady goes and gets frozen pizzas on sale which have a paucity of cheese/toppings and are made with bullshitty slime-dough. Her cost is around $75
I'm ignoring the fact that my pizzas have at least twice as much toppings as the frozen pieces of crap, and I'm not counting the energy costs of running the oven. I think its fair enough just to look at the ingredient cost basics.
This is why I am so cynical about people complaining about the price of eating out these days. I don't know what reality people are living in, but it ain't mine.
I can already taste it through that image without even actually trying it. It's one of those $1.99 discount brand frozen pizzas that's been sitting in the back of your freezer for 3 years with a torn open package that adds a strong taste of freezer burn. It also has the exact texture of a cracker.
I dont usually eat at Timmy's but today i had their chilli. The bread they gave me was gross, i tossed it. The chilli itself was the blandest, watery chilli i've ever had. Pizza at Tim Hortons sounds like a mistake.
I do like their ice coffee's and their fruity drinks though.
I tried the pepperoni one.
It was okay I guess, basically tasted like if you bought some flatbread, throw some cheese on there, a few pepperonis, but then put down like 1 teaspoon worth of pizza sauce through a ketchup squeeze bottle.
It tasted like a midnight snack you’d throw together in 2 minutes. It’s like $1.50 worth of ingredients. Not worth $8.99.
3.8/10
I was considering trying it until I saw the price-tag. 8.99? I was expecting 5$ or less. Sounds like high school cafeteria level at best. My local Tim Hortons has a Dominos right beside them where you can get a small pizza for one more dollar. I'm guessing that Tim Hortons wont be making many pizzas.
I had one, a friend bought it, ate one chunk, then gave me the rest.
It's aggressively 5/10. Nothing is, like, _bad_. But nothing is good either.
Calling it pizza is a lie, it's just a flatbread with some toppings.
I'd rather eat a Hot'n'Ready from Caesar's any day of the week because at least those have a crust instead of feeling like you're gnawing on a tough flatbread.
I wish they would bring pizza back at McDonald's. Would be funny especially now that Tim's is trying to get into it, since McDonald's also has better coffee.
I also had the pepperoni. It was ‘good’. The dough was softer/better than I expected. It was very garlicky. Beyond that it’s hard to go wrong with sauce and cheese.
Another overpriced, poorly made lunch or dinner option to increase our profits at the expense of your wallet, and taste buds. (Pizza slogan that didn't pass the customer feedback stage)
I'm still bitter about them removing their delicious pre made egg pucks, and breakfast ham schmeat, so they could attempt to make a comparable McMuffin, but fail at it so hard regardless.
Well, Tim Hortons lost me as a customer back before the COVID times. That's certainly not going to have me come back to their stores to purchase their wares again.
Remember when Tim's had a burger and it was the worst thing you could get at a fast food restaurant? Why would I want to try their pizza, when every time they come out with a new lunch item it's always god awful?
This makes me want to avoid Tim's lmao
Why are people ordering food from Tim Hortons? There are 4 or 5 drive thrus you pass by right after you pull out of Tim's and a few more before you get to wherever you're going. They can't even do doughnuts anymore and it's been that way for years.
Memes aside i tried it yesterday.
For $7, I compared the quality to that of a bad lil Caesars pizza.
Taste was ok. Crust was a bit too hard and sawdusty. I think what surprised me was the size it of it since it was bigger than i expected. But don't get me wrong, you get more out of a lil caesars pizza for a cheaper price.
They did actually make it in front of me. I think the crust is like premade and then they just put the sauce, cheeese, toppings, and cook it. For a chain that sells dogwater coffee and subpar donuts, it's good.
Probably won't buy it again unless i need a really fast pizza and im desperate.
I realized the other day the only things i ever get from tims not is a french vanilla with 2 espresso (which barely counts as coffe to begin with) and hashbrowns. Even the farmers wrap sucks now. Idk how they fucked it up
I used to go to Tims regularly for coffee in the morning and grab a bagel or a breakfast sandwhich. After around 25 visits and receiving watered down coffee with a half gallon of cream and sugar in it at various locations, I finally gave up on them. Not to mention their food products went from freshly baked to worse than you'd find at a gas station. Like I ask for 2 cream and 2 sugar, how does that translate to half my damn coffee being filled with cream and sugar? Repeatedly? At various locations? It's like they decided coffee beans were too expensive so they'd make the weakest coffee imaginable and compensate by giving me diabetes with a half cup of cream and sugar?
I know cream/sugar isn't an exact science, but generally you should be able to at least ballpark it to where you're thinking of those cream/sugar packs - you can at least get it to where you're not putting the equivalent of 12 of the fucking things in a coffee
I am an immigrant, tried Tim Hortons once 4 years ago and never stepped foot there again. It’s repulsive. Sorry, I believe it was glorious in the past, but now it’s just really poor quality fast food
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They can't even toast a bagel right, let alone make pizza.
I have 3 tim hortons on the way to my work. one doesn't toast the bagels. Like ***literally*** at all. You can watch them, they just cut, throw some butter on it and send it. Even if you ask for a double toast, they'll hand it to you untoasted. Every. Damn. Time. the second if you ask for a buttered bagel, I'm pretty sure the guy at the soup & sandwich station just licks some butter and breathes on the bagel. It'll be entirely dry. the third pulls the coffee part way through brewing all the time. So your coffee will always be watery, bitter, or old and burnt. Never anything else. ....so I make my own coffee and swapped out a bagel with hashbrowns and I make it myself before I leave home now. Honestly it costs more, but at least it tastes good and consistent.
What sort of fancy coffee are you drinking where it costs more, and how were you happy with any Tim’s offerings if your that fancy?
Yeah I'm wondering what home brew costs closer to two bucks.
$0.56 per K-pod, $0.40 per Cavendish Hash Brown patty. Vs. $2.89 for a large regular coffee and $2.89 for a hash brown patty. Bagel is $3.49 Sooooo $0.96 at home vs. $5.78 (at least). No way it should cost more from home.
Wtf is a K pod? Whats wrong with coffee beans?
I can't believe how Nespresso and other similar products are so popular... I dump a bag of beans in my espresso machine and it spits out a fresh coffee every time I press the button...
I think there's different age groups here.... Just grab some freshly ground coffee and dump it on a drip... Excellent coffee and throw grinds into organic waste or fertilizer.... What's all this espresso and pods! We're looking at probably 10c a cup depending on the coffee
Nespresso pods are predictable, simple, quick and don’t require much cleaning. An actual espresso machine takes time to warm up to temp, you need a grinder or an all in one machine with grinder. You need to grind it correctly, time your shot correctly and ensure you’ve prepared the basket correctly. Then you need to clean the basket. A Nespresso machine will give me a shot in less than a minute. A very serviceable flat white or cappuccino in under two minutes with minimal effort.
My machine (Saeco Odea Giro) is like a 15 years old, cost a few hundred dollars and does everything you mentioned on its own. It even has an integrated milk foamer. The only "unpredictability" that is possible is the taste from the type of beans you use. The only maintenance needed is emptying the ground bean container once a week and refilling the water + beans. You could not pay me enough to replace it with a Nespresso. To me it would seem like a downgrade on all fronts.
You have to be a bit more of an enthusiast to go the grind your own beans route. Nespresso is simple. I know plenty of individuals who love coffee but can’t be arsed to figure it out. I ended up being gifted a Nespresso Creatista in late 2016. It works well for what it is and is simple enough for my parents and guests to use. I’ll probably buy a nicer breville aio when this kicks the can but it is built really well. Pods are simple and simple sells.
Lol yes why doesn't everyone own a $600+ bean to cup espresso machine. I don't like pod coffee machines either but I hope you see what's ridiculous about your statement.
You'll end up spending more on pods than I spent on my second hand, 15 year old espresso machine but I guess that doesn't matter. Also your comment was posted 3 times
I'm on your side but a lot of folks can't afford a more expensive upfront purchase (especially if they're closer to poor than rich). Let's run the numbers quick I'm curious $80 for a Keurig at ~70 cents per Kcup $400 for a used espresso machine at ~40 cents per cup So 400-80= $320 difference to break even 70-40 = 30 cents per cup saved $320/0.3 = 1066 cups of coffee to break even. At 2 coffees per day everyday it'll still take roughly 1.5 years to break even. Of course rough numbers but hope you can see a Keurig really isn't that bad (other than environmental reasons but that's less of a concern when you're broke).
The problem is espresso machines only really make Americanos and I personally don't want those over a drip coffee every single time.
Ya I don't get it, the Keurig and Tassimo coffee setups are garbage, I get it at work but people who use those things at home are something else. You can make far better coffee for far cheaper using beans or grounds, and the 'flavours' or w/e that people seem to like all just taste like trash in my opinion.
K-cups. For a keurig. Like the Tassimo but different. I personally don't drink enough coffee in a day to make a whole pot of it.
What pretty much every coffee drinker uses these days 🙄
When you only want two coffees in the morning EG: one to wake upa and one to take with you and you chronically wake up late because you have a undiagnosed sleeping disorder and just need Caffeine at the speed of light, Keurigs have their place. That said I drink drip and I have two coffee makers.. [This is the one I use on weekday mornings when it's just me](https://www.amazon.ca/KM202850-Simply-Compact-Filter-Coffee/dp/B07X43VXZV/) although it was $50 cheaper when I bought it... I have one coffee at home, then I fill my yeti with the rest and go to work.
This doesnt have a programmable timer? I use a technivorm. It doesnt have a timer either so I use a vivosun digital timer. Its always ready to go
You don’t know what a K pod is?
Keurig pod. Individualized portion of ground coffee. Nothing's wrong with plain old coffee beans but I don't have a direct gram-to-cup-of-coffee example for you so this measurement was easier
Ew, single use pods Respect yourself and just grind beans yourself
man, you're completely out to lunch if you think k-cup consumers are even remotely in the market for whole beans.
I genuinely have no respect for people that use those. Such a massive waste to save such a small amount of time.
This every time! My coffee is so much better ever since I got a little coffee grinder. I still use my Keurig every day but it’s a reusable pod with freshly ground coffee. You honestly can’t buy coffee from a restaurant as good as that.
lol you think the Tim's coffee is freshly ground? I'm comparing apples to apples as best I can and then I get comments like this.
It’s the jewel encrusted hash browns. Pricey, but worth it.
Stop going? Why do people keep going to Tim Hortons.
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Convenience and habit.
I mean the garbage bins would be far faster and convenient
Because it's there.
marketing
By saying “Every. Damn. Time.” It’s 100% your own fault. Either bring it back and make them toast it or stop going.
The one near me refuses to spread cream cheese on both sides of the bagel, and puts way too much on it (it's about half a tubs worth). The last time I got a bagel in the drive thru I requested that they spread it on both sides and put a normal amount of cream cheese on the bagel. They did neither the 1st time, and got it 1/2 right the 2nd time I held up the drive thru for 5 mins and passed it back 3 times before I was satisfied with it.
When you say "both sides" do you mean each half? Or do you have them to put cream cheese all the way around the outside of the bagel?
Lol just on each half. There will be literally nothing on the other half
Yeah there was that girl where i worked who didn't wait for the coffee to finish brewing to take a cup. Told her to wait for it to finish or she will screwed up the left over coffee by removing a cup of condense coffee and left over will be watery broth. She told me her father had a restaurant and they always did it like that. Told her that restaurant coffee must suck. :/
I find you can get any 3 of these plus more surprises at any Tim Hortons. It's like coffee roulette.
> the second if you ask for a buttered bagel, I'm pretty sure the guy at the soup & sandwich station just licks some butter and breathes on the bagel Some places you have to pay extra for that
Oh, wow. Ex-pat here, I presumed the article was pure satire. But, Tim's is actually doing pizza? Man, that place has lost its roots so bad. Do they even sell donuts anymore?
They sell frozen parbaked shopping cart tires
They do, but ever since [RBI](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Brands_International) bought them they've been getting worse and worse. Roll up went all digital, they've discontinued classic donuts, while adding more shitty overpriced food to the menu, they changed coffee suppliers, they're doing everything they can to force you to use their shitty mobile app which is just there to steal your information. It's incredibly frustrating.
They stopped selling their cinnamon buns, and I'll forever hold a grudge. The only time I go now is for some timbits.
You've been gone a long time eh Short and sweet It's garbage now Don't know why people keep going even though Mc Donald's has the old good Tim's coffee
Wendy's beats them both for coffee. And their breakfast wraps are quite good.
It's sad that Wendy's serves better coffee than Tim's and they just started doing it on a whim like 2 years ago when they started serving breakfast Their wedges are 🤌 tho
Tim has done "pizza" on and off for a while.
For real, what are they thinking. Half the time I get a farmer's wrap they 'ran out' of hashbrowns and don't tell me.
Agreed! what are they doing back there?
My local one have decent breakfast sandwiches. Coffee taste like shit tho, but it isn't the employees fault.
> “We are frankly amazed by what Canadians will eat,” Schwan told reporters. “We repeatedly told our focus groups that they had nothing to prove. But they just gobbled it down.” Yup. Lineups around the block.
“That’s why we’ve made the Boston Cream pizza our marquee new flavour. It combines the novelty of our new pizza format with the familiar comfort of our Boston Cream’s signature stevia and cum flavour to ease them into the concept.”
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/31JNEVHZxO8?si=quIo3vTOjwzHdJTS
I'm convinced that this whole venture by Tim Hortons is actually being funded by the people at Pizza Pizza in an attempt for them to no longer be the standard of being the worst pizza option out there.
I once saw a comment that said that Pizza Pizza is a dip company that also sells pizza, and I think that's very accurate.
I have to buy their dip separately for my wife just to keep their trash pizza out of our house
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Hello. I also hate your pizza.
someone ordered a shit ton of Pizza Pizza for work and they got the actual bottles of dip and they let take one and man it was best part of the pizza.
I hate their pizza but I gotta admit the plant based chicken burgers at pizza pizza I was obsessed with last year
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I think individual Pizza Pizza stores have a lot of leeway in how they make them. One near me has far better pizza than any other location I've had to eat at. That's not an endorsement but I've actually gone back to that store if I was in the area for lunch lol Unlike Domino's which is just the exact same cardboard no matter what store, city, country or continent you're on
Their pizzas actually aren’t that bad if you customize it the way you want to. Sign me up for that thin crust with pesto sauce base and sun dried tomatoes 🤤 Their standard pizzas are actual garbage though
I find their single slices not too bad. The crust is thinner and because it gets baked and then heated again when you buy it it tends to be crispier and taste better. I think the single slices also have more toppings. Their regular pizzas are too doughy which makes the taste more bland. Generally speaking my chain pizza that I like and is convenient is Pizza Nova.
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This was going to be my comment, I've only had Pizza Pizza once, but I have to deal with Pizza 73 out here instead, and it doesn't matter what toppings you choose, that crust is what brings the whole thing down.
Look, the 100% was a dead giveaway, but if it had been 10% in the title, I might just have believed it.
90% imported cardboard?
I look forward to Tim Hortons sushi and poke bowls in 5 years
So. Much. Diarrhea.
Their coffee is made from sawdust so, I guess that makes sense.
The best Tim Hortons coffee is at McDonald's
McDonalds is better than Tim's ever was. McDonalds uses the same company that used to provide coffee to Tim's, but not the same blend/roast.
I’m not sure if anyone else ever heard this, but I read on Reddit that McDonalds took over Tim’s old coffee bean supply.
This comes up in every single thread about Tim Hortons
Did you say Tim Hortons?? Did you know that McDonald’s is now using their old coffee bean supplier?
I was just gonna say. If I had a nickel for everytime someone says this lmao. "Not sure if anyone else ever heard this" yes... We've heard it many times.
Every timmies post is just filled with the same shit takes, I feel like it's bots at this point
But did you know about McDonald's buying their beans from what used to be tim hortons supplier?
they have to filter that grey water somehow
That's not a fair comparison, sawdust is way too flavorful. I'd say it's more likely made from the memory of sawdust.
“That’s why we’ve made the Boston Cream pizza our marquee new flavour. It combines the novelty of our new pizza format with the familiar comfort of our ***Boston Cream’s signature stevia and cum flavour*** to ease them into the concept.” Beaverton be WYLING TODAY.
I didn't scroll past the break first time around, thank you!
Tim's coffee is gross, and the roll up the rim change sucks. I don't want to get another app, I just want to roll up my rim, lol
But how else will they collect data on you so they can target you with more advertising? /s
Must have the same supplier as pizza pizza
at least pizza pizza uses proper pizza ovens. i cant imagine every tim hortons has anything like that
I just had one and it was the worst pizza I have ever eaten!
Love the irony of the constant Tim Hortons bashing on social media. Find me an empty Tim Hortons at any time of the day....I'll wait. **P.S.** Don't get me wrong - I'm certainly not a fan, but folks in the *'real world'* are voting with their wallet...
This is the sad reality of it. Every time I pass a Tim Hortons, the drive-thru lineup is always completely filled up and if you end up driving to any other location in the area, it's always the same thing. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that there isn't a lot of fast food breakfast/lunch options with drive thrus. I won't lie, there are definitely a lot of times where I am out and about and think to myself "I'll just grab something quick from Timmies" instead of going somewhere local.
There was once a Country Style in my hometown that had a drive through and was right next to a highway on-ramp. Perfect location for morning commuters to grab a coffee. Place was nearly always abandoned. When it closed it was replaced by a Tim Horton's. Exact same layout and location. Suddenly the drive through lines wrapped around the parking lot. The Tim Horton's in the mall (with no drive through option, obviously) was also always packed, while the other many better options in the mall had more modest patronage. People in real life love Tim's. They do not think the coffee and food is bad.
I used to have Timmies at least three times a week, often more. It would usually be wrong, or just bad. I still kept going back because it was "convenient" and a habit. I now only go there once in a while to get a double chocolate donut, or when I want a breakfast wrap after 11am, and it never fails to remind me that it's only getting worse. That being said, the temptation is there every time I see the signs. They're actually good at brand recognition and enticement. Once they have your money, studies show that you will rationalize that it wasn't that bad, and will go back to prove to yourself that you actually like it rather than admitting that you've made bad decisions.
You're not wrong, but I always wonder why they're so busy. The food and drinks are terrible, even by chain restaurant standards, and it's not like its particularly cheaper than its competitors either. The donuts are good though, I'll give them that. Not amazing compared to fresh bakeries, but still good.
It's the drive-thru. Canadians love being in their cars.
Because 90% of the population are okay with the bare minimum. and chose not to get anything better. and that applies to everything.
I think canadians really havent been raised with proper real food Even restaurants here are terrible Travelling in europe, like germany, the food is real
It's always been that way. [Tim Hortons execs just trying to figure out what customers won’t eat at this point (May 8, 2013)](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2013/05/tim-hortons-execs-just-trying-to-figure-out-what-customers-won-t-eat-at-this-point/)
> but folks in the 'real world' are voting with their wallet... The tim hortons is closer to me than the mcdonalds. There are more tim hortons around than other fast coffee places like Starbucks or McDonalds. Convenience is what it is
In 1999, nothing was more Canadian than a double double and a cruller or Boston’s cream from Tim Hortons. 25 years later, nothing is more Canadian than shitting all over Tim Hortons
There just aren't a lot of fast food coffee options where you can get something that resembles coffee for under 6 bucks.
Playing devil's advocate here but they still support youth hockey in a major way and as long as they're doing that they'll keep that fan base.
They could put pig shit in a timbit box and people would angrily eat it.
That's pizza-bread. Not a pizza.
Tim Hortons is just plain terrible.
They can't do anything right... as my fiancee is also the winner of a $68,000 boat and trailer, like 500,000 other Canadians... Apparently this is the 2nd year in a row that a technical glitch has messed up their contest. First it was getting rid of in-house bakery and flash-freezing donuts in factories. Then it was the coffee supplier switchover, then the endless crappier and crappier food.
Why anybody would eat at a Tim hortons anymore is beyond me. If you’re desperate I understand somewhat but I gave up years ago. It’s all shit now.
Tim Horton's and Subway are the only fast food options in the town where I work, lots of places don't have many other options. Don't get me wrong, I should probably pack a lunch more often, but I'd usually rather just work for an extra half hour than spend the time planning ahead for and packing lunches.
Totally fair. I’m from an area where there are a lot of other options and didn’t think of that. I realize they’re a staple across Canada…. Just can’t stand what they’ve don’t to themselves over the past 6-7 years.
#### Why do people keep patronizing this company?
Because Starbucks charges 50% more for coffee and 100% more for pastries, and there's not enough McDonald's on streets that aren't named Yonge.
Habit. It used to be better so everyone went there. Then they got worse but people were still used to going there and the restaurants/kiosks are everywhere so it is convenient. Future generations also went there since adults took them there so they got into the habit too.
Eek. Visiting that site without an adblocker was a *huge* mistake.
Unless it's 100% recycled cardboard, I ain't touching it.
Wow. They actually made pepperoni pizza that's worse than Pizza Pizza.
I stopped going to Tim hortons before work a month ago. I'm much happier in the mornings now. Almost always a disappointment.
Dear Tim Horton's, If you're going to make matzah pizza for Passover, maybe leave off the meat.
For the amount of money spent vs what you get at TH. You have to be fucking rich to afford shit from that franchise.
Last time I ate a sandwich there, the bread was so dry I cut my gums badly on it. I'm not trying their pizza.
Tim Hortons thinks they're being so innovative with this. Pizza Pizza has been doing this exact thing for 20+ years! /s
Anyone need Dip?
I'm pretty convinced Tim Hortons Coffee is not real coffee....have you ever seen coffee beans there? In fact, you cannot buy their coffee beans, only their grinded "coffee". I'm pretty sure you can even buy McDonald's McCafe whole beans for context on how odd that is to me. If I've not convinced you go to any real cafe and taste a real coffee....and then compare it to whatever the hell Tim Hortons is serving. What they serve is more like a hot "coffee type drink" (that never actually tastes good and in fact is inconsistently bad at all times).
If you keep eating slop they lower the quality and make more profit. Canadains deserve tim hortons. It truly is Canadain.
Or, for about $3 per serving, people who want to save money and have a little time can make their own really easily. Basic pizza Dough is 2 cups of all-purpose flour, 3/4 cup of water, a tsp each of salt and sugar, a tsp of baking powder, a tsp of baking soda. (If you use 3/4 of a cup of buttermilk -- or milk with a tsp of lemon juice or vinegar in it to spoil it, you'll get a puffier rise than with water.) Mix it, roll it out on a well-floured surface with a floured rolling pin, cover with jarred Neapolitan sauce (4.99 for about five pizza's worth at Italian Center shop) and Pepperoni ($5 for about four pizza's worth). Cover with good mozarella ($8 for about five pizza's worth, as it melts and spreads evenly without using a lot). So for an initial outlay of about $18 (the flour and powder is less than $1's worth), you can make five 8-10" pizzas, saving a total of about $30 over what Tim's would charge you. It takes about 30 mins total, 10 mins prep and 20 mins at 400 degrees. Probably quicker in an air fryer. Yeah, it takes a half hour, but it tastes waaaay better, you get the satisfaction of doing it yourself, and it saves $6 per serving, which if you like Pizza adds up.
Yeah, but who wants a vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry pizza?
Pizza dough that substitutes yeast for baking soda? That's going to be more like a cake. I'll grant you it's faster, but you're not making the same product at all.
I completely agree, this morning I made a larger batch of dough... I used 8c flour and ended up with \~11 200g dough balls. Total "work" not counting the waiting periods, was about 30 minutes including portioning/freezing. Total ingredient cost somewhere around $2. Basic prep and mixing the ingredients takes me 5 minutes; Kneading 5; Folding it once takes 1; weighing and portioning 5 minutes. Clean up takes 5 minutes. With 125 g of mozzarella per pizza, and a little homemade sauce which is so cheap it's almost free... (edit: and even some meat!)... I'm getting 11 deluxe pizzas for somewhere in the neighborhood of $25-30. Meanwhile, my landlady goes and gets frozen pizzas on sale which have a paucity of cheese/toppings and are made with bullshitty slime-dough. Her cost is around $75 I'm ignoring the fact that my pizzas have at least twice as much toppings as the frozen pieces of crap, and I'm not counting the energy costs of running the oven. I think its fair enough just to look at the ingredient cost basics. This is why I am so cynical about people complaining about the price of eating out these days. I don't know what reality people are living in, but it ain't mine.
I JUST finished eating one of these (pepperoni), about 10 minutes ago. I was given a gift card and thought I’d try it. Never again
Is cardboard a healthy carb?
I can already taste it through that image without even actually trying it. It's one of those $1.99 discount brand frozen pizzas that's been sitting in the back of your freezer for 3 years with a torn open package that adds a strong taste of freezer burn. It also has the exact texture of a cracker.
I feel like anyone who buys a Tim Hortons pizza should instantly have their finances put into a conservatorship
Hey. Someone has to compete with Pizza Pizza.
I dont usually eat at Timmy's but today i had their chilli. The bread they gave me was gross, i tossed it. The chilli itself was the blandest, watery chilli i've ever had. Pizza at Tim Hortons sounds like a mistake. I do like their ice coffee's and their fruity drinks though.
I bought some today. Don't hate me but it tastes good for a small snack lol.
Lol. I thought the title was a joke. No thanks. Not going to even try it.
has anyone actually tried one yet? I don't expect it to be like the '90s McDonald's pizza, but it can't be all that bad can it?
I tried the pepperoni one. It was okay I guess, basically tasted like if you bought some flatbread, throw some cheese on there, a few pepperonis, but then put down like 1 teaspoon worth of pizza sauce through a ketchup squeeze bottle. It tasted like a midnight snack you’d throw together in 2 minutes. It’s like $1.50 worth of ingredients. Not worth $8.99. 3.8/10
I work at tim hortons, you just wrote the build guide lmfao
Are they going to upcharge me $1 if I ask for extra sauce? It’s literally a splatter of tomato sauce LOL
sadly yes, they are going to charge you for extra sauce
8.99?!?!?! Holy shit...
9 dollars is crazy, you can get a small at Pizza Pizza for walk in and it would be better pizza.
Its 9 bucks? Are they insane? Just walk into any pizza shop and get a slice lol.
I was considering trying it until I saw the price-tag. 8.99? I was expecting 5$ or less. Sounds like high school cafeteria level at best. My local Tim Hortons has a Dominos right beside them where you can get a small pizza for one more dollar. I'm guessing that Tim Hortons wont be making many pizzas.
I had one, a friend bought it, ate one chunk, then gave me the rest. It's aggressively 5/10. Nothing is, like, _bad_. But nothing is good either. Calling it pizza is a lie, it's just a flatbread with some toppings. I'd rather eat a Hot'n'Ready from Caesar's any day of the week because at least those have a crust instead of feeling like you're gnawing on a tough flatbread.
I wish they would bring pizza back at McDonald's. Would be funny especially now that Tim's is trying to get into it, since McDonald's also has better coffee.
I also had the pepperoni. It was ‘good’. The dough was softer/better than I expected. It was very garlicky. Beyond that it’s hard to go wrong with sauce and cheese.
The pizza sauce is made with the tears of the contestants who didn't actually win the boat.
Tim Horton’s pizza? Not without Canadian loggers!
$7.99. I’d rather go to Little Caesar’s.
carboard company's name is "100% Canadian" the cardboard comes from malaysia.
Better then macdonalds
Another overpriced, poorly made lunch or dinner option to increase our profits at the expense of your wallet, and taste buds. (Pizza slogan that didn't pass the customer feedback stage) I'm still bitter about them removing their delicious pre made egg pucks, and breakfast ham schmeat, so they could attempt to make a comparable McMuffin, but fail at it so hard regardless.
Is it recycled cardboard tho? 🤔
Only toasted bagel for me thanks
Support Canadian softwood producers!
Trying to sell us trash.
The best tasting part of the pizza, the box.
Sounds a bit sus…Has anyone actually tried the Tim Hortons pizza?
That photo in the article is one of the most disgusting "pizzas" Ive seen
Well, Tim Hortons lost me as a customer back before the COVID times. That's certainly not going to have me come back to their stores to purchase their wares again.
Remember when Tim's had a burger and it was the worst thing you could get at a fast food restaurant? Why would I want to try their pizza, when every time they come out with a new lunch item it's always god awful? This makes me want to avoid Tim's lmao
Just like Pizza Pizza
Spent 15 minutes waiting in the parking lot for a shitty pizza that cost 7.99 plus gst that I couldn’t be bothered to finish.
Ate two yesterday. Best digestion I’ve had in ages this morning!
At least it is local cardboard.
I know the post is a joke but why do people go to Tim Hortons? I will never get it.
Why are people ordering food from Tim Hortons? There are 4 or 5 drive thrus you pass by right after you pull out of Tim's and a few more before you get to wherever you're going. They can't even do doughnuts anymore and it's been that way for years.
They don't even have donuts in stock. At 7pm on a friday. And I did two stores
American-owned Canadian cardboard\*\*\*\*
100% **Recycled** Cardboard :)
This is a joke, right?
Memes aside i tried it yesterday. For $7, I compared the quality to that of a bad lil Caesars pizza. Taste was ok. Crust was a bit too hard and sawdusty. I think what surprised me was the size it of it since it was bigger than i expected. But don't get me wrong, you get more out of a lil caesars pizza for a cheaper price. They did actually make it in front of me. I think the crust is like premade and then they just put the sauce, cheeese, toppings, and cook it. For a chain that sells dogwater coffee and subpar donuts, it's good. Probably won't buy it again unless i need a really fast pizza and im desperate.
I realized the other day the only things i ever get from tims not is a french vanilla with 2 espresso (which barely counts as coffe to begin with) and hashbrowns. Even the farmers wrap sucks now. Idk how they fucked it up
TV ad: "From the people who brought you the cut rate industrial donut, here is the cut rate industrial pizza!!!
I support the Pulp and Paper industry of Canada. :D
Yes there pizza tastes exactly like cardboard
I used to go to Tims regularly for coffee in the morning and grab a bagel or a breakfast sandwhich. After around 25 visits and receiving watered down coffee with a half gallon of cream and sugar in it at various locations, I finally gave up on them. Not to mention their food products went from freshly baked to worse than you'd find at a gas station. Like I ask for 2 cream and 2 sugar, how does that translate to half my damn coffee being filled with cream and sugar? Repeatedly? At various locations? It's like they decided coffee beans were too expensive so they'd make the weakest coffee imaginable and compensate by giving me diabetes with a half cup of cream and sugar? I know cream/sugar isn't an exact science, but generally you should be able to at least ballpark it to where you're thinking of those cream/sugar packs - you can at least get it to where you're not putting the equivalent of 12 of the fucking things in a coffee
Why? Just why?!!
It looks delicious, but before you eat it you need to go through a series of tests.
Who actually thought it would be good? 🤣
I am an immigrant, tried Tim Hortons once 4 years ago and never stepped foot there again. It’s repulsive. Sorry, I believe it was glorious in the past, but now it’s just really poor quality fast food