Just leaving Vancouver

Still. For them to spend any sort of time - signing leases, looking at new store locations - on what seems to be a pretense for funneling them money seems like a waste.

Just cut them a check from the family trust each month and be done with the lies.

 

Some Hortons inside baseball, from 2006 ...

The true story of how Tim Hortons was founded on greed and betrayal - Macleans.ca

 

That's a good read. Ron Joyce, who co-founded TH with the famed hockey player, sounds a lot like Ray Kroc. They even cite the same Calvin Coolidge quote as an inspiration for their success.

 

Tim Horton's was spoken in reverential terms? Unless the ones in Western Canada are vastly different from those in New England and Ontario, can't see how it is revered.

 

I don't get that either. Tims is a place you go for coffee on the way to work - and wait in endless lines - or around lunch time to get out of the office for a minute. On weekends it's the place you stop on the way to the rink or the diamond. It's not revered, it's there, it's everywhere.

 

Revered is the wrong word. It is an indelible part of the Canadian fabric, however.