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You joke. But you'll sing a different tune when the Canadian invasion of the USA begins!

"Begins"? Haven't you noticed how many Canadian military bases are already in occupied parts of the USA?

So far, I was under the impression that our digital currency was Tim Horton's Gift Cards, and they've stayed relatively secure.

Cheap advertising for McDonalds or does it transcend merely being a company and is more like a cultural identification in the USA?

Sadly, I think it is.

Probably in France the equivalent would be "how far are you from a Michelin starred restaurant?"

I don't think most French people regularly dine in Michelin starred restaurants. More like historically, even the peasants in France cooked really good, simple food that led to a food culture being fairly entrenched. That and the wine.

Mind you here in the UK it might be "how far are you from the nearest chippie?" to be fair.....

Here in Canada, it's Tim Horton's :-P

I swear to got, at least 1/3 if the country is physically addicted to Tim Horton's coffee here. (Though, that dreck that is Starbucks is growing in popularity.)

Maybe if they sweetened the pot with a few pre-paid Tim Horton's Tim Cards as well.

That's assuming that Mcgill and Harvard are equivalent schools.

They are.

Not even close.

I can provide quite a few more ranking lists for other sources with similar results. Canadian universities are generally a shit stain on the faced of the American continent who like to fantasize that they matter.

About the only thing our floppy-headed inferiority-complex-laden neighbors have that's worth a damned is here and here.

Why don't they just combine all the cards into a single ID.

There is a coffee and doughnut chain here in Canada called Tim Hortons. Recently, they introduced a plastic card for use in their stores. You can "load" the card with money, and when you buy your morning cup you simply swipe the card through the reader. No more fumbling with change. (A coffee and a bagel will cost around $3.00, and the smallest paper currency here is $5.00, so either you give coins, or you get coins.) It makes it very convenient for the customer to use the card, especially at the drive through window.

Here's the brilliant part of the plan, though. When you initially set up your card, you have to load it with a minimum of five dollars. So if a million people get a Tim Card, that creates a pool of $5 million dollars that Tim Hortons Inc can collect interest on. The card can be loaded online, again with a minimum $5.00 load. You can even set up your card to be periodically loaded automatically. Tim Hortons will always have a nice big pool of cash sitting around gathering interest.

Now, why would they want to share that pool of cash with another vendor?

Thank goodness we have Tim Hortons here in Canada where a Small is a small, a Medium is a medium, a Large is a large and an Extra-large is, you guessed it, an extra-large.

No they don't have wireless but they do have great coffee.

> ....Make mine a large Timmies, 4x4!

4 milks and 4 sugars? Hey, if you wanted a milkshake, you shoulda just asked for one! ;)

(To non-Canadians, Timmies is a word in Canadian that roughly translates to "coffee" in Standard English.)

--KenDoll

Stats:

1. Dunkin Donuts: 6000 stores - 4,400 in us https://dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/company/
   Annual sales (2004) $3.6 billion
2. Tim Hortons: 2,922 stores - 297 in US http://www.timhortons.com/en/about/faq.html
   Annual sales (2005) $1,789,562,423
3. Krispy Kreme: 306 stores wordwide (http://www.krispykreme.com/investorrelations.html >

Tim Hortons is continuing its expansion into the US. It has the product, the momemtum, and its a fresh face. Krispy Kreme is mortally wounded, not just because of the SEC investigations and their too-high fat content, but also because their franchisees aren't happy with head office.

Its going to be the same thing as up here - A Tim Hortons opens up, and the local Dunkin Donuts sees their net sales dive, quality goes down, sales go down more ... head office gets on their case for not "making their numbers" ...

Of course, 20 years from now it'll probably be a new donut chain that will be the aggressive new face going after Tim Hortons.

So what you're saying is that it's an IceCap. mmm. IceCap http://www.timhortons.com/en/menu/menu_products.ht ml

there was going to be a new Google service, Google Tidbits. Disappointed I am.

The point of Starbucks (or, in Minnesota, Caribou and Dunn Bros.) was never the coffee. You can get coffee anywhere.

10 minute break? How can you even get started without it???

:-)

That exchange to Canadian is like $4.42 a cup of coffee! How does that even being to make any sense?!

I'd rather get off my lazy ass, walk two steps to the closest Tim Horton's and pay $1.40 for 400ml of good hot coffee. That's about £0.58 pounds.

Here... this should get you started.... click on "Get driving directions..."... oh, and please send us some donuts!

>But because I am not a U.S. Person, I am stuck owning a small portion of Nortel stock and a little of Air Canada

Cheer up dude, you almost got enough for a Tim Horton's Iced Cappuccino!

Yeah...but you forgot the most important pro. Tim Horton's coffee.

They have to do that to get consistancy. The point of the franchise is that everywhere you go in the country or world you get exactly the same product.

What you guys need is the new "Big Tim" cup from Tim Hortons.

This Coffee cup holds an entire pot of coffee and keeps it warm all day long. Also it has a big warning on it NOT TO DRINK FROM IT. But I do anyways. All it looks like is a giant coffee cup. For sure it would be a good gift for the coffee drinkers alike.

Every Canadian out there already knows what the best kind of Coffee is: Tim Hortons. ;)

(PS: Timmies uses Arabica beans, which are more expensive and flavourful than the Robusta beans usually found in instant-coffee. They don't have as much caffine though, but that just means you get to drink more! Yum!)

The subject line was hyperbole, but really it is getting there. My current spending habits are that >95% of my monthly spending is totally electronic, and the remainder will be electronic soon enough (delivery. Most delivery drivers are being equipped with wireless debit pads for using your bank debit card at your door). At any average store or restaurant, overwhelmingly patrons are paying by debit card rather than dealing with cash and all of the change issues (especially here in Canada where up to two dollars are change - the bulk of change that can be acquired in a day of using paper currency is staggering...literally). The exception to this rule is Tim Hortons, a ridiculously popular coffee shop that refuses debit cards for speed issues.

Tim Hortons Canada for the Timbits and Coffee! Not to mention Wendy's in most of the Tim Hortons outlets of course! :D

Apparently Timbits are far more important that we ever imagined...

Don't be fooled. It's all a plot to resurrect this guy.

I, for one, welcome our hockey and donut-eating overlords.

I know this has been mentioned in another post, but apropros of this article, the Waterloo Wireless group is (or was, I haven't heard from them in some time) trying for complete world domination at 11Mbit/sec.

I personally think that Tim Horton's (for those of you who need a reference, Timmies is like Krispy Kreme without all the ambience) should go all Starbuck's on us and implement wireless access points in their coffee shops. Well, at least around the University of Waterloo, anyway.

Does this have anything to to with timbits? Mini-Robo-Trucks, Mini-Donut-Parts?

I'm not sure what to make of it, but Tim Horton's in Canada has coffee sizes Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large, while in the U.S., the same sizes are Extra Small, Small, Medium and Large. Note that the lids on the cup still have the S, M, L, XL labels molded in.

I really found it strange, being a very regular drinker of Tim Horton's coffees to get what I thought was a large when I ordered a medium.

No idea what this means trend wise, though.

Ed

The only time I've had to use cash was at Robins Donuts last week

You call yourself Canadian? Real Canadians get their donuts at Tim Hortons! Sheesh, eh?

Seriously, though, I'd like to see you try debit at McDonald's. Fortunately, Starbuck's takes debit, but there are a number of places that still do not. And yes, Timmy's is one of them too. So is my company's cafeteria (but at least they've got tabs, which IMO are better than debit).