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Tim Horton’s Rant
I stopped by Tim Horton’s today before lunchtime (around 11:30) today to pick up a cappuccino, or what Tim’s passes off as a cappuccino – whatever, my wife likes them, and ended up going in instead of waiting in the drive through line. I can’t speak for Tim’s outside of the metro St. John’s area with any in-depth knowledge, but generally walk-in is faster than the drive through. This, however, seems to be changing.
The big problems that I have with Tim’s are:
- Since they started selling “sandwiches” the time waiting to be served has gotten crazy. It was bad when having to wait for a toasted bagel but this makes things worse by an order of magnitude. You are standing in line waiting for your cup of coffee, which only takes a a minute, and you have to wait 4-5 minutes – or more – for the person in front of you to get a sandwich. Why don’t they have a coffee and doughnut only line where nothing has to be cooked? I really hate waiting 15-20 minutes in a line for a cup of coffee. (Maybe that is why I generally make my own coffee and take to work.)
- This is an extension to the first problem – they say that they don’t accept Interac because it would affect their quick service. Poppycock! Given the length of time I have to wait to get change made from my five dollar bill or the time waiting for someone to get a sandwich made the time to process an Interac transaction don’t count for much. If they said that they didn’t want to accept Interac because of the service changes – which in my opinion is the real case – I could buy the argument. But not to impact their fast service you gotta be joking. Maybe things are better in the capital of Canada, err… I mean Toronto, but this ain’t the case here!
