Who ruined Tim Hortons?

I can go to McDonalds and pay $2 for an extra large double double which, imo, tastes better than the mud Timmies provides which costs more.

The food has also gotten worse. Timbits taste like crap and most places now will only make you like at most 4 different flavours of timbits. It's just overall crap. If they had just focused on coffee and donuts then awesome but they decided to try to make everything under the sun and none of it is good. Hell they even do pizza now.

It also doesn't help that the majority of their employees have no clue what they're doing and they simply don't care. hell I don't blame them for caring, it's a minimum wage bullshit job, but when you end up standing at the mobile order counter for longer than standing in line to order then what's the point? you gotta wait until one of them cares enough to acknowledge that you ordered for a mobile pickup.

It's just overpriced crap.

on the topic of minimum wage jobs and not caring, it doesn't matter what the wage is, you agreed to work the duties outlined to you. I'm not saying becoming a star employee and going above and beyond, but i mean if don't like your job and decide to slack off, don't be surprised if your fired or a customer complains about you.
- You get what you pay for. Don't be surprised when you pay employees like shit, treat said employees like shit, and then they stop giving a shit about making your business succeed or fluorish. Want good loyal workers? Pay and treat them properly.
- Working at all isn't a choice, it's forced onto people by the pressures of society. People who are either starting out or freshly immigrated here will have no choice but to take those low pay bullshit jobs that don't pay enough to let you rent your own apartment.
  No one agreed to work, we are forced to work. Some have a choice of career, some do not.

Don't suffer from false nostalgia, it was never good.

no one was ever forcing you to buy it.
The selection of treats in the 90s was way better, and everything is overly sweetened now.
Like their salted caramel butter tarts… you don’t need the salted caramel, it’s a fucking butter tart. The caramel is the worst part.
- Maybe as you got old you lost your capacity for sweet? You're viewing your memory through the lens of time.
Chili in a bread bowl was peak Tim Hortons.
- And it was still pretty mid. When I was young I liked spaghetti-o's.
I honestly remember it being good... in the 1980s. The doughnuts were gloriously big and fresh.
- It was always a hole in the wall coffee shop. You probably liked the patena of cigarette smoke that was on all the donuts.
The coffee maybe, but the rest (staff/service, prices, donuts) def got worse over the years.
- its because they don't hire quality workers. but that's store dependent. i was at a store where this supervisor or manager (was not sure) would yell at her workers like it was a military line to do orders and stuff and it was nuts. If that was my manager id tell her to watch her tone with me and talk to me more respectfully. I've been to stores where the staff seem ok but they don't work very fast or are just understaffed from what i can tell with the amount of customers waiting. Of course Tims expected this with the expansion of offerings that are not quick to serve like coffee or a doughnut.

This is just how he tries to make deals. Spook people into freaking out and hastily agreeing to a bad deal. This is one of those moments where I’m glad it’s Carney at the helm. I don’t need him to be perfect I just need him to steer our country through this mess so we can come out the other side intact.

If there is an other side.

I think you were trying to comment in this thread, or similar: https://lemmy.ca/post/53909628

Ten years ago, twenty years ago, Tim’s was always rubbish. The coffee is battery acid and the food is unfit for human consumption. I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t shit.

Their donuts were great until around 25 years ago (?) when they switched away from baking them in house. Their sandwiches were pretty good when they were first introduced, too. Then they were bought out by Burger King and started degrading the quality of their ingredients—when they switched from cheddar to processed cheese was the last time I ordered one of their sandwiches.
I don't understand why they're still so popular. Who the hell is buying enough crappy coffee and food from then to keep them open? You can get far better coffee and food from almost any of their competitors, for the same price or less even.