http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/08/26/burger-king-to-buy-tim-hortons-for-11-4-billion/ Burger King will be moving their base of operations to Canada. Hopefully they will be bringing the precious beverage to the United States. Very interesting news. If this means that one will be able to purchase Tim Hortons coffee at Burger King, that bodes very well for those long trips up and down I-95 and the Garden State Parkway.
Maybe - but I worry a bit. Tim Horton's didn't do so well under Wendy's tutelage, and never came down this way...hopefully this doesn't mean the same type of thing. BK is just looking for a tax dodge more than anything else...so we never know if they'll actually care about bringing Timmies down here. but we can certainly hope! Personally, I wouldn't cry if every BK location in Florida became a Tim Horton's instead...I never go to BK anyway!
Indeed...#2 burger joint. The conglomerate of the two will be quite a big company. I just hope Timmies stays Timmies, and doesn't start morphing into a BK.
That would make a huge difference! There are BK at pretty much every exit! As we usually leave at 11:00 pm and drive through the night, good coffee would be huge!
bk won't give 1 rats**s about maintaining the quality of the coffee product at all. first and foremost this isn't anything more than an attempt to move the corporate headquarters and tax liability out of the us without having to go overseas, and if they acquire timmies it won't be long before the bean counters want to know why they cannot use coffee that's pennies a pound cheaper. if this goes through, mark my words, within 3 years it'll be just another dunkin grade swill
I'm not so sure. McDonalds brought in a large number of morning customers when they improved the quality of their coffee. Maybe it'll be BK, now featuring Timmy's coffee. Erich
While true that it would improve their coffee by switching to Tim Hortons, I wonder if it would really have much impact in the states. Siding with a name-brand coffee that's well known can help a restaurant or chain, but other than a handful of places on the Canadian border, Tim Horton's is not a known entity in the US...someone in Kansas, Texas, Florida, or New Mexico hearing that Burger King now has 'Tim Horton' coffee probably wouldn't mean anything at all, unless they've been to Canada (or Pixelmania).
