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peterpuck9's Blog
Topic: Canada Invades New York!
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fiogf49gjkf0d I've had Tim Horton's a few times while up in Canada and I thought the coffee was very good. I prefer Dunkin' Donuts donuts however since they are a little bigger.
Article from Canada.com:
"Canada's iconic coffee shop has emerged as the victor in an international doughnut war in New York.
Tim Hortons is set to take over a dozen Dunkin' Donuts outlets in the Big Apple on Monday.
The American chain's New York franchises have long been plagued by store closures, lawsuits and allegations of unsanitary conditions and doughnut-munching mice.
This made room for what the New York Daily News dubbed the "caloric colossus from Canada" to stake a claim in a market already brimming with coffee shops.
Monday's store openings mark the first time the Canadian chain, famous for its maple-glazed doughnuts and multi-flavoured Timbits, will be available to New Yorkers.
Robert Ryan, a Canadian living in New York, said he is excited about Tim Hortons coming to the city. "I like it better. I don't know if it's just that I'm partial to Canadian companies, but I do think it's better than Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks," said the 33-year-old who grew up in Truro, N.S.
Michelle King, a spokeswoman for Dunkin' Donuts, said the New York store closures came after a seven-year legal spat with the franchise owners.
The American chain gained infamy in the city a decade ago, when the New York Post ran a photo of a mouse chewing on a doughnut in the store window.
The mouse, which even appeared on David Letterman's Top 10 List, caused an ongoing rift with the parent company overseeing the brand, leading to the lawsuit and the Canadian invasion.
New York media are eating up the doughnut duel between the "invader from the north" and the American "munchkin maker."
"The competition will be fierce," wrote the New York Times, warning Canadians that it may be "a challenge to sell an unfamiliar chain to New Yorkers."
Meanwhile, the New York Daily News described Dunkin' Donuts as the international doughnut war's "first casualty."
"Word of the Canadian invasion fell like a belly bomb among Dunkin' devotees Thursday and left some crying in their crullers," the newspaper said.
The Tim Hortons franchise, founded by the legendary hockey star who did in 1974, owns 3,400 stores, including more than 500 in the United States.
Still, the popular Canadian brand has been a much harder sell in the U.S.
Despite its recent losses in the doughnut war, Dunkin' Doughnuts is not giving up on the New York market, said King.
"We intend to continue this pattern of growth as opportunities arise," she said.
The company has opened 244 new locations in the city over the past five years".
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
www.canada.com/business/Tims+takes+Apple+with+double+double+whammy/1779628/story.html
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fiogf49gjkf0d And once they get to Tim's they'll stop walking.
I heard not long ago that Oshawa, Ontario has more donut shops per capita than any other city in the world.... and I would imagine that moral is unusually high on their city's police force.
Max DeGroot:
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Donut shops in New York City range from chains to Mom and Pop shops. You can usually find one on every other block, they are that common.
Donut shops in NYC make the vast majority of their profit from coffee, not donuts. So, the coffee in donut shops has to be good. If it isn't, patrons know they only have to walk another block to get something better.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Donut shops in New York City range from chains to Mom and Pop shops. You can usually find one on every other block, they are that common.
Donut shops in NYC make the vast majority of their profit from coffee, not donuts. So, the coffee in donut shops has to be good. If it isn't, patrons know they only have to walk another block to get something better.
Bob Guest:
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Tim Hortons is known for having great coffee. Although some donut shops in Canada have better donuts, people still go back to Tim Hortons... because the better coffee makes a better deal.
I think once New Yorkers get used to the idea of a new choice among donut shops they will come to love it the way people in other states have done.
It's not as if the Canadians are taking over... we just want your donut money.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Tim Hortons is known for having great coffee. Although some donut shops in Canada have better donuts, people still go back to Tim Hortons... because the better coffee makes a better deal.
I think once New Yorkers get used to the idea of a new choice among donut shops they will come to love it the way people in other states have done.
It's not as if the Canadians are taking over... we just want your donut money.
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fiogf49gjkf0d I suspect Dunkin Donuts did not have a very good inspection system.
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