Yes! I can boycott this american business on home turf once they arrive.
If you’re in Vancouver, go to Lee’s instead. Actually Canadian, and arguably the best doughnuts on the planet (I’ve checked!)
Don’t post this. You’re just going to start a fight with the Honey’s Donuts crowd!
I don’t actually love Lee’s. But Honey’s is great.
Pricey. But very good
CEO Peter Mammas believes he can open “600 to 700” of the American donut and coffee chain locations in Canada
CEO Peter Mammas is an idiot.
About five years ago when I last visited New York I happened across a Dunkin’ while I was walking around exploring. I didn’t expect a life-changing experience, but I was mildly stoked to finally check out their selection and find out how it stacked up against local offerings.
It didn’t. Hands down the worst garbage donut I’ve ever had in my life. Coffee was no better. These guys are going to fold faster than Krispy Kreme did the first time they tried to compete (admittedly they seem to be doing much better since returning for a second shot).
Krispy kreme in bc had a line down the block for months after it opened.
But for dunken, Canadians are used to shit donuts, we have Tim’s everywhere
This is going to work even more poorly than Target’s Canadian adventure did. Canadian consumers are not as gullible and stupid as American companies hope, and now they’re also very angry.
Oh great, it’s gonna attract cops.
takes cover
Gross.
Pass
Outside of Boston, they aren’t very good. Stale donuts that taste like they’ve been thawed from frozen, and overly sugary coffee drinks.
Tim Hortons has leveraged Canadiana to sell the same bullshit, I’m sure Dunkin can find some levers to pull since Canadians seem to have absolutely no respect for themselves.
Lol, well put.
How can a business not read the room, so bad that it is going to cost them millions of dollars? I hope one comes to Saskatoon so I can purposely boycott it!
Being a massive company, this plan didn’t start yesterday. Maybe not even yesteryear. How long has this plan been cooking to be thrown away like this?
The businessman is not worried about competition from Tim Hortons, which enjoys a certain status as a cultural icon in English Canada.
“I think it’s getting old and young people don’t identify with Tim Hortons,” says Mr. Mammas.
I told you those young people would be trouble!
I mean, if it creates a bit of competition with tim Hortons I wouldn’t complain. Maybe they might be forced to actually go back to freshly baked doughnuts and proper coffee
Don’t get your hopes up, Dunkin is doodoo
So is tims
I gathered that from the post I replied to
This is going to work just about as well as Target did. Unless their coffee is cheaper than Tim Hortons AND McDonalds it’s not gonna work. I can get an extra large double double at McD’s for $2. at Tims it’s like 50cents more. So Dunkin is gonna have to have an extra large coffee for less than $2 to be a success here. And it’s not like it has to taste good, I mean hell Tims is just mud in a cup that may or may not get stirred, it just has to be cheap.
Funny thing is there are rumours of Target coming back?
I don’t know, they’re a very American brand, maybe not as much as Tim’s is Canadian (in the sense of brand perception/ cultural significance). Even though McDonald’s is American, it’s been here so long and is so global it doesn’t feel American.
I look forward to their catastrophic failure.
I would still be loyal to Tim Hortons if they weren’t American-owned. So my loyalty to the once Canadian firm is gone. Bring on another Yanky Donuts shop.
