{"id":293,"date":"2007-09-10T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T10:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:40","slug":"conquering-canada-with-coffee-and-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Conquering Canada, with coffee and donuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/08\/business\/worldbusiness\/08doughnuts.html?ei=5070&amp;en=4eaef64ad25c2fdd&amp;ex=1190088000&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;emc=eta1&amp;adxnnlx=1189434572-E+NStqpXraMRF8snJgmyow\">this weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span class=\"caps\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #853918;\">OAKVILLE,<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #853918;\">Ontario \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Tim Hortons<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #853918;\">conquered Canada long ago. The doughnut chain boasts one outlet for every 12,700 Canadians \u00e2\u20ac\u201d by comparison, one McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exists in the United States for every 21,000 Americans and one Dunkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Donuts for every 56,000 Americans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #853918;\">A survey this summer by a group promoting Canadian historical literacy found that 40 percent of Canadians under 34 consider Tim Hortons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 miniature doughnuts, the Timbits, a national symbol.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #853918;\">Tim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, as it is affectionately known, sells 78 percent of the nonsupermarket coffee and baked goods sold in Canada.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NY Times: OAKVILLE, Ontario \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Tim Hortons conquered Canada long ago. The doughnut chain boasts one outlet for every 12,700 Canadians \u00e2\u20ac\u201d by comparison, one McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exists in the United States for every 21,000 Americans and one Dunkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Donuts for every 56,000 Americans. A survey this summer by a group promoting Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,19,22],"tags":[29,28],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-canada-eh","category-canadian-culture","category-food","tag-donuts","tag-timhortons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}