with the news that Burger King and Tim Horton's,,,

The thing is, Tim Horton's isn't all about the donuts - their main sales driver is coffee. It holds the greatest percentage of their sales. At least it did when a friend of mine was in line for a manager job at Krispy Kreme when it came to Canada. She was told 90% of Tim sales is coffee, and 90% of Krispy sales was the donuts, so they were hoping to capitalize on that when they opened in Canada.

And, if one is lucky enough to live in Northern Virginia we have both. Lots of Dunkin' Donuts and a Krispy Kreme factory right down the road.  

(for those of you who aren't from around here....Virginia is a southern state, very southern in some parts, but the Northern tip of it is not, because of all the transplants who came here to work for the federal government in one capacity or another.)

Here in Western NY we have a ton of Tim Horton's so it's not just in Canada anymore....Timmy Ho's (as we call it) is pretty popular!!!!

ETA:  Trivia...who did Tim Horton play hockey for??

If your main aim is good coffee.. then Starbucks is the Tim Hortons of the US. But if it is donuts then Dunkin Donuts is probably the top runner up.

But Tim Hortons and Burger King seems to be an odd merger.

Well that certainly flopped now didn't it? It's funny that Canadians prefer the prefabbed, frozen crap that passes as a donut at Timmie's but wouldn't go for the freshly made Krispy Kremes. Or any other small market donut for that matter.

I'm not sure how I feel about this merger. We went down this road with Tim's selling out to the American fast food once before )not to mention the Stone Cold Creamery fiasco)... why on earth do they think it's going to work this time.

The reason Krispy Kreme's didn't last here in Massachusetts was because their coffee was terrible and they only offered donuts. Dunkin's donuts aren't fantastic since they've gotten too big, they don't make their donuts in the stores any longer. But DD has branched out with breakfast sandwiches, all day sandwiches and other things. DD is definitely the most popular coffee in New England though.

I am in VA and we have both but I LOVE Dunkin Donuts!

I don't go to Tim's very often either. I actually think mcdonalds makes a better coffee (gasp, I know) and so do many other people. Around here holding your timmies is just a weird snobbery. As if people can use a $2 cup of coffee as a status symbol.

I never eat Burger King and I'm now going to stop having Tim Horton's coffee brought back to me when friends go to Ontario. Corporate greed/tax inversion. Grrr.

When and if the US wakes up and makes the financial climate in this Country more favorable for companies to do business in, companies may quit jumping ship. Funny thing about companies, they want to make money and if they have to headquarter in another country to do that then that is what they are going to do. 35% tax rate is too high here.

I'm a baker so I guess it's natural for me to prefer my food over the shops. But that doesn't mean that there aren't shops out there that don't make a good donut.



There is always an aftertaste to a lot of bakery treats, something my sister always said I was imagining. Until she went without for a while, only eating her homemade stuff. And suddenly she said she could taste the same thing I always talked about. It's like you can taste whatever they add to maintain freshness, not saying that all bakeries do this. 

I think the downfall of KK here, although they have since re-opened some stores, is that they had the doughnuts but crap coffee. I think people would rather be able to get their morning coffee and a mediocre doughnut at DD, than a good doughnut and crap coffee at KK. DD coffee is the closest thing in the US to Canadian TH coffee. I've never had TH in the US. Our hockey arena now had a couple of shops since we have so many Cdn snowbirds here and the new team owners are Canadian. But I haven't bothered to wait in the long-ass lines to try it.