We’re still almost a full month away from the start of autumn, but that hasn’t stopped Canada’s two largest coffee houses from launching quintessential symbols of the season. Starbucks’ legendary pumpkin spice lattes are now available across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. It is the 15th anniversary of the PSL.
“It’s 2018” – that’s all you have to say to get something accomplished in Canada. So starts the story of one frustrated father whose tweets to Tim Hortons motivated Canada’s used-to-be-favourite coffee and Timbit chain to install diaper-changing tables in its men’s bathrooms across the country. Chris Webb, a father
Last we checked, Canadians voted Tim Horton’s the 50th-most admirable brand in the country. It was an astonishing fall from grace – Tim’s placed 4th overall in the same poll the year before – that started, oh, around the time bread bowls were discontinued. Or when one franchise of the $3-billion-in-annual-revenue
It’s been a rough year so far for Tim Horton’s. A series of missteps – including one Ontario Tim’s franchise cutting paid breaks and benefits following the province’s minimum wage hike earlier this year – has seen the once-beloved coffee and donut chain’s brand tank from 4th place to 50th
That Ontario’s recent minimum wage increase to $14 an hour could hurt small businesses was a given. That it would force a company boasting over $3 billion in annual revenue to cut back employee benefits is incomprehensible. According to workers at one Ontario Tim Horton’s, however, that’s exactly what happened.
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