I’m sure many of you know what Tim Hortons is but for those of you who don’t, Tim Hortons is a fast food/coffee shop that can be found all across Canada. It is only in Canada as it is a Canadian store. For any Americans that may be curious, think of Tim Hortons as Dunkin Donuts. It is basically the American Tim Hortons even though it can still be found in Canada, but I am getting off topic here. The point is that I work at Tim Hortons here where I live and with these blog postings I am going to be giving anyone who is interested in reading, some insight of what it is like to work at Tim Hortons. Now here is background information on how Tim Hortons came to be. The first ever Tim Hortons opened up in April 1964 at the corner of Ottawa Street North and Dunsmure Road, in Hamilton, Ontario. Tim Horton was the Toronto Maple Leaf's hockey teams defensemen. Tim met Jim Charade in 1963 around the time that Charade left his job to open up a store called Your Do-nut. Given the fact that Tim had an interest of getting into the restaurant business for awhile, the two formed a company called Timanjim Ltd. They opened up four Tim Horton Drive-in stores in Toronto serving burgers and chicken, I know it’s shocking. Eventually, due to a separate deal made between the two, Charade licensed Horton’s name to turn Your Do-nut into Tim Horton Do-nut which was the first store named after Tim Horton. The burger and chicken drive-in struggled with business so Charade decided that the future for the store was donuts and restaurant franchising. So Charade sold the franchise rights to owner-operators, who would buy the equipment and supplies from the company, follow the menu and operating standards, and pay the company a share of their revenues. This is how Tim Hortons came to be and since then 3,665 stores have opened up across the country as of 2016. Tim Hortons is Canada’s largest restaurant chain and is a Canadian cultural phenomenon. For more information and where I got the information written in this blog visit: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tim-hortons. Another interesting blog about Tim Hortons is linked here: https://www.blogto.com/cafes/tim-hortons-innovation-cafe-toronto/.
