there is nothing I hate more in this world than that insipid Tim Hortons commercial with that inane backpacker who thinks he's living large because he was able to befriend other Canadians with an empty mug in France. Man. Worst.Ad.Ever.

reading this made me get up and make some coffee.

Yeah, we know decaf is a waste of effort and breath mints but lay off the darkness will ya, juuuust kidding. (your probably right.)

Very happy to see that there is somebody else who thinks Rex is a ponce and who doesn't like Tim Horton's coffee.

Something I'll never understand is how people can drink a "large triple triple". There are two in my office that do this. ack.

ooh, coffee!

but I always thought coffee shops that made it big had something going for them, like good coffee. now I know it's just slashing the prices that make them so successful.

I'd better watch the dragonbreath then.

'Great rant. I feel much the same as you do about "Timmy's" as it is called here in North Bay, ON

BTW, Tim Horton's is now owned by Wendy's International (U.S.A.). In light of this littel-known fact the TV ads are all the more offensive.

I also believe that Tim Hortons coffee is junk that is why I roast my own blends of coffee.

You bet , Tim Hortons truly sucks, the college I attend makes a killing off the crap, the commercials drive met batshit,the tons of Hortons cups littering the landscape...the cups?...how about the stores themselves...you cant go a blocks without seeing one....something has to be done...they have to be stopped!!

U loser! Tim hortons is the best coffee in the whole wide world and it is a 100 percent canadian!

If u say that their coffee is crap well you dont know coffee!

It's the best!

tim hortons licks balls!!!!!!! it cost alot too!!!!!!!!!!

yes, but where do their beans come from??
huh? hmm? what?

I was traveling with a close friend of mine up to the northern parts of Ontario. We stopped a Tim Horton's in Kapuskasing and the coffee surprisingly was cold. Oh well big deal. The day of August 22, 2005 I have never been so disgusted with a company that had somewhat of a great name to the Canadian people. We stopped into the Tim Horton's in NEW LISKEARD, Ontario and we had to use the facilities, so without staring down at the floor I walked in and walked in piss. The washroom was so dirty my laces and of course my shoes soaked up this disgusted liquid all over the floor. So you think wow that sucks, I went to the counter and waited in line of course. I let the older lady at the counter know the state of which the men's washroom is in, her response was "So why are you telling me, what do you want me to do about it?" how nice a employee that does not care about hygiene. The condition of the store in general was filthy, I didn't even see a manager on the floor. I just told her, to let someone know or let the manager know so they can get one of the high school graduate hopefuls to clean the washroom because now my shoes and laces have piss all over them and so do the guy's beside me ( which he concurred it was disgusting ). The lady gave me the run down on how things work " anyone going on break is to clean the washrooms before hand", well I guess that wasn't on the work load that day because when we left there was a younger girl out back smoking her brains out. This could have been very simple had they replied to me and concerned that I now have had to throw out a great pair of shoes, because I am not wearing shoes that were standing in someone else's piss and I am certainly not touching the laces. My next step is calling the toll free number and ripping a new shit hole into a supervisor for having it be two weeks now and no reply. I want new shoes damn it! Thanks for reading, pass this along and tell everyone you know.

Hello all! Well, good news, I actually work at Tim Hortons in Alberta. I've been there for about 1 year and if it wasn't for the fact I make alot of money $9.75 an hour, then I wouldn't be there.

Couple things:

1) I hate coffee, and have never had Tim Horton's coffee, so for all I know, it sucks. The poblem with this is that the vast majority of people I talk to can't get enough of the coffee. Regulars come in every day, three times a day simply to get a cup of coffee, it's sad really.

2) We are required to watch videos before you are allowed to work anywhere in the building (8 terrible hours of videos) explaining everything about Tim Hortons. Just so you know, the whole Tim Horton's story about where the beans come from and such as stated on their website, is true. You arn't getting some crappy bean made in a green house in your back yard. Even the boxes of coffee that we recieve for making the coffee in the store state where the beans come from, including ingredients and such.

3) As for store conditions, well, compared to most fast food joints, Tim Hortons does a pretty damn good job at making sure things are clean, sanatized, and done right. We are all assigned jobs (chores) to do aside from helping customers. One person does bathrooms, one person empties garpagaes, sweeps/mops, etc. So if a store looks, smells, and tastes like crap then you can blame the owner of the store for not caring.

4) The job sucks: stressfull, long hours, double shifts, crappy pay for newbies and is some parts of the country, and only two 15 minute breaks (unless it's busy, in which you get no breaks some times)

Overall, we are famous for the coffee, so the majority of people must think it's good. The job sucks, but if you are there for long enough, and do a good job, you'll be making an above average fast-food wage.

Just my two cents

P.S Your chances of getting coffee that is older then 20 minutes is about 6 in 10. Tim Horton's quality for ya!

WOW I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU DON'T LIKE COFFEE, EXPECIALLY TIM HORTON'S COFFEE. ITS LIKE OUR NATIONAL FUCKING ICON. ITS SO GOOD I PERSONALLY COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT MY TIMS XL DOUBLE DOUBLE IN THE MORNING. THE COMMERCIALS ARE AWSOME THAT CANADIANS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH NATIONAL PRIDE AND ITS NICE A COMPANY PROMOTING "CANADA FUCKING ROCKS"

Tim Hortons is owned by Wendy's. They pretend to be Canadian to sucker people into paying those rip-off prices. Have you seen those lunch specials? WHAT A JOKE! Their soups take like hot water with stale veggies. For that kind of money, I'd rather go to Quiznos or Subway and get a real sandwich.

I love my Tim Horton coffee. There is nothing
quite like it. You must be mixing your coffee
providers with Starbuck.
See ya Wouln't want to be ya

T Ho's is DA BOMB

Hello,

I used to work for TDL (Tim Hortons head office). I left about 6 months ago. I couldn't put up with the company and their policies. I want to go for on a rant about this chain.

1. They aren't Canadian anymore. They are canadian operated but they are not Canadian owned. Original founder Ron Joyce was bought out for 235 million dollars in the mid nineties.

2. Tim hortons pays 13 cents per pot of coffee which is an average mark up of about 6000% to the customer. I find this quite exploitive. How much of that .13 is going to the farmer in Ethiopia, and secondly they purchase their coffee off of the New York Stock exchange, meaning less money goes to the farmers. Starbucks has a much more ethical process of growing and buying their coffee.

3. They do not recycle anything. If anything falls on the floor, its gets chucked immediately. They don't even mention or recommend recycling to new franchise owners, the environment isn't even a concern. All cups are made of paper....tim hortons sells approx. 4.5 million coffees per day. Multiply that 40 years. They don't even put a blue box in the store to recycle plastic bottles, cans, glass bottle. It is monsterous. I wish the Ministry of the Environment would go after Hortons in ontario. Its almost 2006 for crying out loud, put a blue box in your store. Its not brain surgery.

I could go on, but thats all i have to say for now.

Thank

Serving Sizes

All I want to know is how many ounces in a small, medium, large and extra large coffee and how many in a large iced cappucino. I can't find this information ANYWHERE. And yes I called the company where you can only leave a message on a machine and guess what....no one called me back....surprise!!.

Just read this for the first time today. As a fellow Canadian who hates Timmy's coffee:
THANK YOU!

Double-doubles are crap and I'm glad our college never got a Tim's. We got a Starbucks, which meant everyone had a caffeine buzz by 10am!

I work at Tim Hortons too (Port Dover, ON) I hate all coffee and always have, but I like almost everything else "we" have. I also hate the smell. It permeates my skin when I come home. Yes, it's sad that we get people coming in 3+ times a day and enough to memorise orders and know their names. We even have nicknames for people if we don't know their real names. The work sucks, but weird customers makes it fun.

I avoid "Timz" (STRESS) whenever I can, but sometimes I need to stay awake while driving. And that's how it was last fall when I stopped at a "Timmies" (gag me with a chainsaw) in Barrie. I was behind a guy that ordered a "triple-triple." It took everything in me to not confront him and slap him in the face. Tim Horton's makes me embarrassed to be Canadian.

Tim Horton's coffee is the worst shit I have ever tasted. I will never drink it again. It tastes and smells more like the coffee urn cleaner than it does like coffee. It tastes like what your mouth tastes like if you don't brush your teeth for 3 days. Yeah like that...

I agree with most of the comments on here. I think the coffee tastes burnt. I need to add more sugar but, then sometimes it tastes a lot fresher and therefore doesn't taste bad.
Where I live, there is no other place to get a coffee- to- go. Starbucks tastes kinda bad, too. If I'm gonna have bad breath, I might as well buy the cheaper one.

sometimes you get a good tasting cup of coffee but, I know what you mean by BURNT which happens a lot. I used to work at a Timmy's and every time I visit one now, I notice that they do NOT clean their coffee machines. When I worked there a long time ago, my boss used to make us clean the machines after EVERY SHIFT!! I mean taking it apart and shoving the snake through the top where the water pours out and run the machine through with hot water into the coffee pot.
Not once have I seen a countergirl do that!!

Same goes for the hot chocolate machines. Every time the hot chocolate is empty and needs to be changed, we were to take every piece apart and wash it in hot sudsy water and then run hot water through the machine a couple of cycles to clean the inside (same as with coffee machine). And then put it together and then put a new hot chocolate drum inside.

No one ever complained about a burnt cup of anything.
I think it's the staff, instead of the coffee itself. Hell, it's just a bean, right??

People are way too passionate about this. Its all about taste. I enjoy my Tim Horton's double double. It tastes good. I've tried Starbuck's Venti dark roast Brazilian Soy lattés. I've tried the 50 kinds of flavoured roasts at the second cup. For my money, its Horny Tim's. Most of the time I have a satisfying coffee. There is actually a slight euphoria that I experience when drinking it. I like that. The creamy delight that is a double double is popular because it tastes really frigging good. Now I'm sorry about the guy who stepped in piss. I like Tim Horton's coffee and donuts. But I don't like their uniforms, bathrooms, or sandwiches. In any case, I won't have the snobs of the world tell me my taste buds are wrong when it comes to flavour. Tim Horton scores again.

I wanna know how much coffe is in a S, M, L, XL coffee!! Somebody already asked that, and Tim's empolyee's came on here to rant, but, nobody answered the question!

As for the coffe....I like the tea. English Breakfast, but, I can make it at home for WAY less.

I'm going to join the majority and say that I don't like Tim Hortons coffee. I am an employee and can get the stuff for free but I'd much rather make my own.
I'd just like to share some gross stories of what people ask for in their coffee:

1. Today a lady came in and ordered a medium with 6 creams and 2 sugars-half the cup was cream! Gross. When she gets to the window all I can think is "man, she sure looks like a 6 and 2".
2. 7 sweetners. Why are you even drinking coffee?
3. People who ask for half hot water annoy me. The coffee is not even that strong to begin with.
4. The worst has to be this lady that often comes in and asks for butter with her tea instead of cream. WOW!

I will admit.. i like the ice capicinos... but after reading that they only pay 13 cents for a POT of coffee?! wow. sad. More effort on our part to try and buy fair trade coffee should be made.. although, what exactly is fair trade. we should proabbly pay MORE than fair trade prices, as i figure those are only the minimum right? When I was in Elsalvador our group bought 500 pounds of coffee for, if i remember corectly, double the fair trade price. and we still paid less than we would have in specialty "fair trade" stores in Canada.

I see crazy line ups at BOTH (yes.. we have TWO) of our Timmy's at the UofS (Saskatchewan). I mean... how do students afford to buy 3+ timmy's coffees every day?! frick... probably costs more than your text books! I know people that would be late for class every day because they were wating in line for their coffee.

as for the clenliness... that isn't a national chain problem really... cause all of the Tim Hortons i have been in have been quite clean. It is all dependant on the manager/owner and their staff. The piss one was gross... Health inspector hopefully shut them down. That might be someone you might want to contact rather than Tim Hortons... cause Timmy's will just try to cover it up... but a health inspector will make them change or shut them down.

Making your own coffee is not hard. or expensive. or time consuming. It would probably take you less time to make your own than it would to stand in line/ drive through the line at Timmy's. And you don't need a fancy coffee machine! all you need is a coffee cone (that you set on top of your pot/buttler), a filter to place inside of it, and ground coffee to put inside of that! add hot water and enjoy!

Oh please! That's a typical American rant. You obviously haven't been to Starbucks, have you........ now that's overprices swill.

Hi all! I am thinking about getting a job in Alberta at a Tim Hortons and was wondering if anyone could give me some advice, opinions, etc. Some information about the good ones to work for or if there are some better jobs that pay more that people know of would be great. I am not a resident of Alberta but would just be visiting for the summer. Anyone who could help me would be just awesome! Thanks so much everyone!

Tim Hortons coffee is great darn-it anyways... just like everything great about canada (capital letters left out intentionally) it sold out too...darn - it we should buy it back and pay off the debt ;). We are (canadians) badly addicted to timmies, t- hoe (lol) or whattever you want to call it. we could pay back the debt by addiction lol

Hopelessy canadian

I work at a Tim Hortons and feel the need to address several issues that have been raised here.

1. the sizes are 8 fl. oz. (small) 10 oz. (medium) 14 oz. (large) and a whopping 20 oz. (extra large). The number of ounces are written on the plastic lid for each size.

2. As somebody who has cleaned the men's room many times I can attest to the fact that the washrooms sometimes contain piss, shit, or blood. I get quite queasy cleaning this stuff up (especially the blood) a couple of weeks ago I had to mop up what I kept saying was spray from chewing tobacco. All I know was that disgusting brown spittle was everywhere and as long as I pretended it was chewing tobacco I could clean it without adding vomit to the mix (oh, I've cleaned a lot of that too). We at Tim Hortons do not put this there. Personally I wish that customers would be as nice to our washrooms as they are to their bathrooms at home, but shit happens (or in the case of the guy with the laces, piss happens).

3. I am sorry for all the stories about poor customer service. Tim Hortons pays minimum wage and many people they hire should never deal with the public. Yes, the low wages are a problem, but I suspect that if you asked the customers if they'd approve a raise for the servers if it meant a rise in the price of a medium coffe that the customers would vote to keep wages at the legal minimum.

4. Yes, a pot of coffee probably costs about 13 cents. I tell new employees that the cheapest part of the cup of coffee is the coffee itself. Sugar costs more so does the cream. In fact the parts of a cup of coffee that costs the most is the cost of the cup and the cost of the person pouring it. My guess is that the cup costs more than I do.

5. I don't know about other Tim Hortons, but at mine the coffee is less than 20 minutes old. We do a big business and at peak times we can sell coffee faster than we can make it. Between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. no coffee is more than three minutes old. This is probably less true at 3:00 a.m. but I can assure you that on my shift coffee can't get too old.

6. Much of what has been said is a matter of taste. I am not a big fan of the coffee at Timmy's I find it too bland. I take it with double cream and no sugar. Some have told me that I am just drinking hot coffee flavoured cream, but that's their opinion. For those of who who want to smack people for ordering triple-triples, what would you do to people who order their coffee 4X4? The first time somebody ordered a blueberry bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese from me I repeated the order twice to make sure I wasn't hearing things, then I sold him a bagel I wouldn't eat unless somebody paid me some serios money to do so.

Finally, yes, Tim Hortons is a Canadian icon that is owned by an American corporation. But isn't selling our most precious resources to the Americans a fine Canadian tradition?

Larry!!!! Say it is'nt SOOOOO!
good points tho!

I work at Timmy's in Port Dover, ON. Last week, one lady ordered a extra large decaf orange pekoe tea with four cream and four sweetner, bags out... it was pretty much hot sweet, watery cream with a bit of tea in it and it was sickening, and then she came the next day, so she must have liked it. :)

Awesome comments Larry!

forget tim hortons- you should be a stand up commedian.

I myself like very much to repeat the words "I am a doctor, I am a doctor..." as I daily clean human feces from our bathroom's floors, walls and ceilings.

one day I can practice heart surgery again and stop selling this accursed black liquid.

i work at timmy's.. worst establishment ever all the doghnuts are grose the coffee's not free trade and the employees are all traeated like we're slaves. the place is a gold mine and we all get min. wadge not including the managers and supervisors who are raking in money with both hands for doing less then the nomal employees. plus some people come in and order stuff like an 8 by 8.. yes 8 creme's and 8 shuger's crazy. cant wait to quit.

dunc! Still wondering why your getting minimum wage? Thought so.....anyways i worked at Subway once now i didn't like their products either...still don't. i know a guy who worked at a meat packing plant... he now wont eat meat....get the picture? ignorance is bliss.... as far as the coffee not being free trade.....when did this free trade thing happen? have you ever ordered from e-bay or anything from the states? there is no free trade, not for the average canadian anyway. As far as managers making more money that comes from more responsabilities such as fixing your mistakes and understanding the simple truth ... the customer is ALLWAYS right regadless of if they order decaf tea with sugar and cream or a 12 X 12 it is their preference not tim hortons, furthermore minimum wage plus benefits is not bad for a start..... whish i had that growing up!

habib.....I know it's not heart surgery but the feces is at least in the washroom, not a bad change don't ya think?

Where ELSE should their feces go Mac Mac? Between our sadly abused lavatories and wherever you go to relieve yourself my friend is surely best left for a coin toss to decide

why did I come to canada? I was told the streets were paved with gold.- not with what I found on the floor today. It took forever to clean

Now habib were off subject here it is the restaurant and it's coffee that is being commented on here not it's customers that was the point i was making.....don't like the job? fine Quit, get minimum wage no benefits somewheres else! whith our shortage of doctors here! you should get a job no problem if you any good at all....look Canada has no streets paved of gold whoever told you that must have been in a timhorton induced caffein haze, we can barely keep them paved, for golden streets you need to go further south across the border young man, there you need not worry about feces on the bathroom floor because they only have a couple of timmies there.

by the way I DON'T use PUBLIC washrooms! are you kidding do you know how fithy those places are?

On the subject of weird things ordered at Tim Hortons, I thought I'd pass along a sneaky idea I came up with.

Once upon a time I was working the night shift and when I finished I remembered that I had no cream at home for my coffee (I tend to drink the coffee I make at home. I like the taste better and it's cheaper) rather than go to the store to buy a half pint of cream I stood in line at my Timmies and ordered an extra large coffee with 10 creams in it. The server (who knew me) thought I was even crazier than she had already assumed I was, but she made me the "coffee". So what was I buying? I got a 20 oz. cup of cream that was slightly flavoured by Tim Hortons coffee. It gave me cream for my coffee for a week for less than half the price of buying a container of cream. Just don't tell them what you want it for. Oh, and don't tell them that it was me that suggested it.

Wow - quite the $h!tlo@d of comments for a rant from 2004! I'm impressed! Now, I'm certainly not about to claim that Tim's coffee's the best there is, I can't agree with you that it's the worst either. Then again, you might not be tasting the same thing I am when I buy a 'medium to go' ... 3 creams, 6 sugars. Yeah, you heard me. (What! You thought I got to be this sweet naturally?) In any case, came upon your link while searching for the Tim's TV ad they've started running again lately - http://www.timhortons.com/en/about/marketing-ts.html (the Asian grandfather kills me!) and wanted to drop a line about your post.

Well that was an interesting rant on coffee. But I completely agreed on the reasons why you liked coffee: wakes you up, mellows when stressed, etc. However, just because a shitty Tim's opened up in your college where they obviously don't know how to brew coffee, doesn't give you the right to diss a warm cup of Tim's. I've had my good Tim's and bad Tim's, but 95% of the time it's a heck-of-a-lot better than starbucks or robins.

here here ryan.....(got to get a timmies) ::-}

Hi i work at timmy's and i have a nose peircing and they knew that at the time. I have to cover it which i do not some much have the problem with. What my big problem is that if one store has to cover it then shouldn't all stores have to especially if they are own by the same owner. Personally if they hire you with the peircing then what is the problem?

The worst coffee ever..

I made the mistake of getting a Tim Horton’s coffee today. It’s brutal! I don’t even think its coffee; It’s like some sub-species of coffee. People just love it, how many times have you heard this “I need my timmy’s or I can’t get through the day” weird.. I can’t even stomach it.

Honestly, next time you get one, really taste it. It tastes like wet cigarette butts, spiked with caffine.I know that’s a sweet combo for some, but I’m out.

Tim Horton's coffee tastes like an ashtray. It's goddam nasty!

And for all of you who keep saying it's "Canadian"...take a look at the stock market and see who the true owner of Timmies is. It's a US corporation called WENDY's!

So, Timmies can lick the sweat on my left nut....it would probably taste better than the vile crap they serve as coffee.

yes it's american now!!! big deal what isn't if you look deeper. the worst coffee?? well it's better than that watered down tar they call starbucks at least it's made from coffee beans.lol who cares if ya don't like timmies coffee? they don't go away little fishie ;P

It's not about being Canadian or American..Or if Horton's will go away or not!! Canadian's are pathetic..They drink Tim's because they think it's Canadian patriotism. The same as they wear "I am Canadian" shirts and listen to "The Hip" I really don't care if Hortons keeps building franchises.. I just know It sucks...and if that upsets some fat pieces of shit, who hang out in Horton's all day eating doughnuts that's fine with me..

I'm new to finding a taste for coffee, never bothered it much until lately. I'd have a Tim's coffee maybe once a week or so, and even less seldom I'd brew some at home. But just about 6 months ago I started to discover Tim's is just Swill! With it's aftertaste and the foul stench it leaves on your breath. Now I haven't gotten into many different flavors from Starbucks yet but the one or two i have tried blows Tim's out of the water. I have tried many of the smaller coffee shops in my town, and all make anywhere from a decent to outstanding cup of coffee, and none of them have that taste of snuffed cigarettes left in old lead ashtrays. It's not just the one location of Tims, every one i've tried, no matter what time of day it's all pretty much the same, burnt dirty taste that can only be masked with large amounts of sugar and cream. And no one can tell me Tims is to bold for my taste, what Tim lovers call bold is actually BURNT! I know what Bold tastes like, i like My Tea bold, i like my wine bold and i like coffee bold.

Yo Kojack Try it without the lousy lolypop in yer mouth or before that 5$ wine or the long-island ice teas You might be pleasently supprised :-)) after all if ya ca stomach Starbucks overprice wattered down tar ya can drink anything, or that might be when your taste buds got damaged? Oh! and Don't bother with the different flavours they do that so that non coffee drinkers(you know those that really don't like coffee!) can get the cafeine jolt too.

BTW you'll never get that tast out of your mouth now!!

She's a bitter old queen!

I began drinking Tim Horton's coffee long before it became associated with a Canadian image. I loved it then and I love it now. They use good quality coffee and it's (almost) always fresh.
The fact is, when chains like Tim Horton's and Starbucks become popular and ubiquitous, young artsy people declare them bad and frequent some local, overcrowded trendy coffee shop instead. You can see this happen with music as well... as soon as the band gets popular, it is decried and the young hipsters look for some other "undiscovered" musicians to rave about.

God Tim Hortons is disgusting. The coffee is very bitter. Sometimes I swear I was served decaf instead of regular coffee, which sucked. I used to order x-large 2 cream, but when I tried Starbucks I never looked back. I dislike the cheezy "grande, vendi or whatever moca lotta etc, blah blah blah" talk that the 8 $ an hour coffee servers use when I ask for coffee, but all around it tastes LIKE coffee, unlike Timmy's which tastes like shite, eh.

Sorry to hear you had a bad coffee experience in New Liskeard! If your ever in our area again try stopping by Chat Noir Books for a good cup of Joe or and espresso. I can guarantee our bathroom has been cleaned as well...

When we travel we try to get our coffee form the more independent coffee shop guys. North Bay has 2 great coffee shops Twiggs at 473 Fraser Street
and the other one is in the mall witht he Winners on the South end of town...sorry can't remeber the name of it.

There is no reason you should have to drink bad coffee grin