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The seemingly terminal decline of Tim Hortons

I just saw the Roll up the Rim commerical on TV. Is it just me or is it painfully bad?

The emphasis on their app is too much and they seem to be focusing more on that than actually rolling up a rim. I get the sense from the commercial that Tims has lost touch with their customer base and is hoping for a hail mary promotion.
 
In case anybody needs yet another reason to boycott this organization...


Tim Hortons Workers Need Doctor’s Notes To Take Unpaid Sick Leave During Coronavirus Pandemic

https://pressprogress.ca/tim-horton...npaid-sick-leave-during-coronavirus-pandemic/

The supervisor confirmed workers at its location need a doctor’s note to take unpaid sick days. Workers get up to five unpaid sick days per year, each documented with a doctor’s note. “You have five days a year and after that you’re fired,” they told PressProgress.

One former employee who recently left their job at another Tim Hortons franchise told PressProgress: “You need to provide a doctor’s note and call a day before to advise them you’ll be calling in sick”. The former employee said they and their coworkers sometimes showed up for work when they were sick because their employer’s doctor’s note policy and lack of paid sick leave discourages them from calling in sick.

Doctors are critical of employers demanding doctor’s notes to prove their employees are really sick, noting it’s a waste of time and resources while the Canadian Medical Association has called it an “unnecessary public health risk”. “It’s a strain on the system,” the former employee said. “You’re exposing others who may have a weak immune system or are infants or are elderly for absolutely no reason other than to get a stupid piece of paper.”
 
Timmies tweeted a message denying that story, saying that if someone was sick, they were encouraged to stay home. However, might some franchise owners do things differently?
 
gabe said:
Yup Tim Hortons hates their employees. This is the same company that took away paid breaks, paid benefits, and other incentives as a result of the province's minimum wage hike.
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Meanwhile Starbucks is paying their employees no matter what.

www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Coronavirus: Starbucks to pay workers whether or not they come to work

Starbucks announced on Friday it is paying workers for the next 30 days whether they come to work or not, amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Tim Hortons sales drop more than 40% in March due to COVID-19

Yahoo Finance Canada May 1, 2020

Tim Hortons saw sales fall more than 40 per cent in the last two weeks of March as customers adjusted their daily routines and opted to stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The losses have slightly improved since then, with the coffee and doughnut chain’s parent company Restaurant Brands International reporting that sales have declined by more than a third as of the end of April.

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“As COVID-19 has spread, most our guests have put their ordinary routines on pause and consumption has shifted accordingly,” RBI chief executive Jose Cil said on a conference call with analysts Friday. Tim Hortons has seen a pronounced impact, he added, as it relies heavily on routine-based business.

“Breakfast, snacking, and other routine-based day parts have been disproportionately impacted across all of our businesses, and this dynamic is clearly illustrated in our results at Tims, and those of our coffee-oriented competitors in North America.”

Fast food chains around the world are grappling with drastically reduced demand as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.


ca.finance.yahoo.com

Tim Hortons sales drop more than 40% in March due to COVID-19

Tim Hortons saw sales fall more than 40 per cent in the last two weeks of March as customers adjusted their daily routines and opted to stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Seems people are ignoring the "stay home" rule. Today i delivered food out to family members in Brampton ( essential trip, made no stops) you should have seen the line ups at some Tim Hortons drive-throughs ? Cars were lined up on the street waiting just to get in the drive through lane on the property! One reason i have avoided drive throughs, i could be or the worker could be, covid asymptomatic.
 
Tims Hortons begins reopening dining rooms as sales recover

May 29, 2020

Tim Hortons has reopened about 500 dining rooms in Canada, a company executive said Friday, as lockdown restrictions ease in some areas of the country.

The coffee and doughnut chain has also seen comparable sales slightly recover from declines of more than 40 per cent in March to a drop of approximately mid-20 per cent as of May 22, thanks to growing drive-thru and delivery demand.

Duncan Fulton, the chief corporate officer at Tim’s parent company Restaurant Brands International (QSR), said in an interview Friday that the company has reopened approximately 500 sit-down dining rooms in British Columbia, Alberta and New Brunswick over the last week.

ca.finance.yahoo.com

Tim Hortons begins reopening dining rooms as sales recover

Tim Hortons has reopened about 500 dining rooms in Canada, a company executive said Friday, as lockdown restrictions ease in some areas of the country.
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Tim's has a plan!

Get you to d/l their app; and the spy on you, so they can figure out your every move! (including out of country, your home, your office/work; where in your workplace you sit/stand, meal times, whether you shop w/competitors......)

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1271466303472185344

Article here:

business.financialpost.com

Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation

Tim Hortons is logging detailed location data of customers through its app — and many may not realize it’s happening at all
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Tim Hortons knows when you are sleeping.

Tim Hortons knows when you are awake.

Tim Hortons knows if you're bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.

Tim Hortons defines being bad as drinking coffee at Starbucks or similar. Tim Hortons defines being bad as drinking tea at DavidsTea or similar. Tim Hortons considers drinking coffee or tea at Tim Hortons good.

Funnily enough, Tim Hortons considers drinking coffee in Burger King as bad, despite sharing common ownership.

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Coffee wars - Wikipedia

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What's next? McDonald's adding a feature in its app that alerts app users of eating at Burger King or Wendy's or similar (and vice versa for other burger chains' apps)? Coke and Pepsi having apps that warn users of going to restaurants and/or venues that sell the other company's products (and those apps having to be updated frequently as some restaurants and venues change beverage providers)?
 
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