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Some interesting facts, (from Wiki)
-It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants.
-Tim Hortons franchises spread rapidly and eventually overtook McDonald's as Canada's largest food service operator. The company opened twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald's[6] and system-wide sales also surpassed those of McDonald's Canadian operations as of 2002.
-The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.
-Tim Hortons commands 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%).
-Its busiest branch is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; prior to its November 2010 expansion into Nunavut,[SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-Nunavut-17[/SUP]it was also its northernmost store.[SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-18[/SUP]
-Soon after Horton opened the store, he met Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable. In 1965, Joyce took over the fledgling Tim Horton Donut Shop on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton. By 1967, after he had opened up two more stores, he and Tim Horton became full partners in the business. Upon Horton's death in 1974, Joyce bought out the Horton family's shares for $1 million and took over as sole owner of the existing chain of forty stores. Joyce expanded the chain quickly and aggressively in geography and in product selection, opening the 500th store in 1991.
-Some older locations retain signage with the company's name including a possessive apostrophe, despite the fact that the official styling of the company's name has been Tim Hortons, without an apostrophe, for at least a decade.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-25"][26][/SUP] The company had removed the apostrophe after signs using the apostrophe were considered to be breaking the [/URL]language sign laws of the Province of Quebec in 1993. The removal of the apostrophe allowed the company to have one common sign image across Canada
Just in case you were wondering.
-It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in hamburger restaurants.
-Tim Hortons franchises spread rapidly and eventually overtook McDonald's as Canada's largest food service operator. The company opened twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald's[6] and system-wide sales also surpassed those of McDonald's Canadian operations as of 2002.
-The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.
-Tim Hortons commands 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers served) and holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%).
-Its busiest branch is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; prior to its November 2010 expansion into Nunavut,[SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-Nunavut-17[/SUP]it was also its northernmost store.[SUP]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-18[/SUP]
-Soon after Horton opened the store, he met Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable. In 1965, Joyce took over the fledgling Tim Horton Donut Shop on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton. By 1967, after he had opened up two more stores, he and Tim Horton became full partners in the business. Upon Horton's death in 1974, Joyce bought out the Horton family's shares for $1 million and took over as sole owner of the existing chain of forty stores. Joyce expanded the chain quickly and aggressively in geography and in product selection, opening the 500th store in 1991.
-Some older locations retain signage with the company's name including a possessive apostrophe, despite the fact that the official styling of the company's name has been Tim Hortons, without an apostrophe, for at least a decade.[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons#cite_note-25"][26][/SUP] The company had removed the apostrophe after signs using the apostrophe were considered to be breaking the [/URL]language sign laws of the Province of Quebec in 1993. The removal of the apostrophe allowed the company to have one common sign image across Canada
Just in case you were wondering.
