I'm amazed at the Tim Horton's awe in here. They basically sell DD type coffee. It's blended so as not to have any actual character. It's akin to how sitcom's screen their shows first and take out any comedy with an edge, so they don't offend anyone or make anything that's actually funny. It's the Everybody Loves Raymond effect. People watch the show. I can't recall anyone ever mentioning a bit from the show and talking about how funny it was. Contrast that with the Chappelle Show. Offended everyone, but you always heard people ranting about it.

Think Tim Whoreton's is a great place? One of their locations fired a long time employee single mother of 4 for giving a Timbit (value $.15, same thing as a Munchkin) to the toddler of a regular customer. Whoreton's later rehired her, but refused to take any actions against their management. You probably thought that Canadians were nice too. Feel free to read the customer service complaints in the post as well. Then get back to me on how bad Starbucks is. Their coffee is so bad that most Canadians order a double double.

When you have to put that much garbage into your coffee you know that you're not really a coffee lover and the coffee isn't that good. In the end, this more or less holds true for everyone who buys coffee at places like DD, McDonald's and Whoreton's. The best coffee comes from methods more advanced than soaking coffee grinds in a paper filter. People who really care about their coffee and are really into coffee realize this. That's why they commonly drink espresso based drinks. Milk ones for the morning and non-milk ones for later in the day.

Drinking a half-assed cup of drip from a low quality, generic bend with no flavors is akin to someone drinking a $10 blended no-name bottle of scotch and telling you that they're a scotch lover or someone drinking a $2 bottle of wine and telling you they're a wine lover. Drink what you want, but you're not that into it.

"The menus and such looked similar when I was there with Tim's maybe having more lunch items. "

Tim Whoreton's does serve made to order sandwiches and their donuts are better than DD. Essentially, they're less sugary than DD.