{"id":251,"date":"2007-05-17T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:32","slug":"a-canadian-icon-turns-its-glaze-southward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian Icon Turns Its Glaze Southward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAs many of you may know, I have a particular penchant for Tim Hortons<\/a>. There’s not a trip to Montreal these days that doesn’t involve a stop at the Tims in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu for an extra large black coffee and a blueberry fritter or chocolate-dip donut.\n<\/p>\n

\nI’ve always said that if I ever won the lottery down here, I’d open a Tim Hortons here in Vermont. Despite Vermonters disdain for chains (Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonalds, and South Burlington’s staple Al’s French Frys<\/a> probably outsells the McDonalds next door by a ratio of five to one ) I think there are enough Canadians to keep a Tims in business here. I even have a great spot picked out for it here….\n<\/p>\n

\nThanks to the Wall Street Journal, Tim Hortons is back in the news here in the US. The WSJ published an article<\/a> on the growing presence of Tims south of the border, a phenomenon about which I was interviewed last fall for a story on Epicurious.com<\/a>. There’s a glaring error in the WSJ story that any Canadian will be quick to catch. The first person to point out this error in the blog comments will win a free coffee from me the next time I see you….\n<\/p>\n

\nIn its home country of Canada, Tim Hortons claims a whopping 76% of the coffee-and-baked-goods market. Named for its late founder, who was an all-star defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League, the chain is so ingrained in Canada’s culture that the term “double double” — shorthand for a Hortons coffee with two creams and two sugars — has its own entry in the Canadian Oxford dictionary.<\/p>\n

But industry analysts say that, in about seven years, Hortons will have built as many stores as Canada can support. So, barely a year after the chain was spun off by Wendy’s International Inc., Hortons is ratcheting up its U.S. expansion. Currently, most of its 340 U.S. stores are in strongholds near the U.S.-Canada border in Michigan, Ohio and upstate New York. But by the end of 2008, Hortons wants to have 500 U.S. stores — and perhaps more, depending on if the company can make inroads in New England.<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nSource: A Canadian Icon Turns Its Glaze Southward – WSJ.com<\/a>:
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Thanks to Don Tinney for spotting this article for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you may know, I have a particular penchant for Tim Hortons. There’s not a trip to Montreal these days that doesn’t involve a stop at the Tims in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu for an extra large black coffee and a blueberry fritter or chocolate-dip donut. I’ve always said that if I ever won the lottery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-culture","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}