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It sold out to a multinational organization becoming non Canadian owned before changing their coffee, all their baked goods, and rebranding as a bit of a psuedo upscale fast food provider.

What was a chill, decent coffee spot with some in house baked good swapped out for just another resteraunt with coffee that served frozen factory made baked goods that are dry, tasteless, overpriced, and boring.

Quality dropped, nolonger Canadian owned, vibe changed entirely, price went up.

Tims shouldn't sell pizza, or fifty different lunch items. It shouldn't be a cheaper upscale caffe, it shouldn't be in competition with starbucks or McDonalds let alone both. But that's what it is now.

Cuz it used to be great, but due to capitalism it has grown worse and worse over time. I mean, I eat and drink there because I am also a slave to convenience but it's not "good" like it once was.

To reiterate other points in the thread: they used to be pretty good and Canadian.

But in 2014, they were bought out by Burger King and the quality absolutely plummeted. Their coffee supplier went to McDonalds, and all the baked goods are now frozen rather than fresh; making them stale

They've cut enough corners that the brand is now associated with low tier trash. But because they used to be Canadian, and still try to market themselves as Canadian, it's become offensive. This is not what Canadians want to associate themselves with anymore

Cause outsiders (since you mentioned online) associate Tim Hortons with Canadians, and it’s seen as a Canadian symbol.

But they are way too corporate with low quality products to be Canadian, it pretty much screams Americanization.

Come on bruh. Have you been to a Tim Hortons in the last 20 years? Dumpster fire to the exponent of 100.

They're not Canadian anymore, they're not fresh, and the crap they serve is a shallow imitation of what they once were. The business that was started by Tim Horton himself died long ago, another victim of multinational corporations that fuck everything up in the name of profit.

They keep trying to pretend they’re Canadian and there’s nothing good about it.

Tim's is about as Canadian as Donald Trump nowadays...

Sold out to a Brazilian mega-corp (Brazil has the some of the worst coffee on the planet). Cut everything down to the bone in terms of quality of product and quality of service to maximise profits, and is just coasting on nostalgia and the good will it built back when it actually WAS good (1990's... Damn, I miss those cherry sticks!)

Eating Tim Hortons is like eating food made from someone describing food to a cardboard printer.

It used to smell like fresh baked bread and fresh ground coffee when you walked in.

Their pastries, donuts and buns were fresh baked in house. It was an experience to see a tray of steaming bread rolls coming out of the back while you were waiting for your order.

They switched their ethically sourced coffee bean supplier back when they sold out. If I remember correctly, McDonalds then swooped in and took over the supply contracts, so suddenly McDs had the superior coffee (in my opinion).

Because its garbage. Decades back they had good coffee, fresh in store baked donuts, and good deals. Now is bland coffee, trucked in food that is garbage, and expensive. Nothing good about it anymore.

Because it's terrible. The food is terrible, they treat their employees terribly, the employees are understandably terrible themselves and the whole thing is shoved down our throats as 🍁 CANADIAN 🍁

Because it was sold to American mega corps and the quality was driven into the ground by cutting every corner possible resulting in the worst products I've ever tasted.

Personally, I think their coffee is disgusting and tastes like dirt poured into a cup. As for other people's hate, no idea.

Creeping decline in quality due to capitalism + using Canada as their identity created a strong backlash from others who identified as Canadian but didn't identify with creeping decline.

Them selling out to a non Canadian company, and continuing to use Canadian identity to market themselves, then provoked even more intense backlash.

It's not just the reaction to being attacked by the undead, it's the reaction to being attacked by an undead friend.

Well, I cannot write it better than all the comments here... Yes it was good 25 years ago, but selling it to BK, changing coffee beans (they used to be good, years ago they changed it, because of price I guess, and the new one is disgusting. McDo switched to the old TH beans AFAIK this is why the McDo coffee is good), having donuts came frozen and just heating them, capitalism, etc.

In the last 20 years I went to TH less than 10 times.

Quality is shit, and it's not even owned by a Canadian company.

Tim Hortons is known for fucking their workers hard and allowing their franchisees use indentured servitude.

Because Tim Hortons is the Burger King of Canada, after all they merge …

At the Beginning Tim Horton (the hockey player) started a pretty decent Dunkin Donuts like restaurant but at some point his actioneers oust him and he died without money for what he build. Now Tim Horton’s at this time was still something okay I guess, in Montreal language watchdogs asked Tim Horton’s to comply with French Language Law which they refuse and transforme the Tim Horton’s to Tim Hortons (because now it’s a name I guess).

Like you can see they always were shitty corporate citizen

Somewhere in the 2010s McDonald Canada tried to stole their market parts with better coffee and donuts. They partially succeeded because Tim Hortons at the time did great pub to bolster patriotic sentiment (they appears in How I met Your Mother after all). Since then they never really tried to be better and after that they merged with Burger King

The baked goods taste stale and the coffee is overrated.

Idk, man, because anything mass produced has a high likelihood of sucking ass?

I think it's a combination of their consistent and obvious decline in quality, combined with the fact that most people in this country have been regular customers for at least some period of their life. Very few fast food chains are as widespread and common in small communities (McDonald's and subway come to mind). I don't remember any other fast food chains getting worse almost overnight, but I do remember Tim's switching to much worse bread on their sandwiches, and their donuts going from fresh, to frozen but decorated, to whatever you call the attempted smearing of nearly solid "icing" on top. Are other chains any better? I can't say for sure, but I can say Tim's at any previous point in history was.

I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what's available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.

Shit stale food for too much money. There's still 12+ car long drive-thru lines every morning.

Timmie’s used to be really good. But when private equity (the foreign owners) came in, they cut a lot of things that made the products superior. The brand of coffee was changed, the donuts were made centrally and shipped out, and a lot more “cost-cutting” features.

I still grab a French Vanilla when I need something sweet that has a decent caffeine base to keep me awake. But the quality has slipped such that I would rather make my own coffee at home than get theirs. A FV is just a convenience purchase at this point, something I get when I don’t have the opportunity to make my own coffee.

The easiest way to describe it is this ... when I used to go to Tim Horton's in Dryden, ON they would ask me if I wanted my Ice Cap made with milk, cream or chocolate milk.

They don't do that anymore.

Because it’s awful processed chain restaurant “food”?