this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
741 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

9340 readers
2822 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can we please not call Tim Hortons Canadian?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Exactly. Restaurant Brands which owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes is a US company. Tim Hortons is garbage anyway.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that why they're so smooth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well if there’s one place you don’t want hair, it’s in your coffee. Hang in there up there we’re rooting for you just south of the border.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

According to Wikipedia they're headquartered in Toronto

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In 2014, Burger King bought Tim Hortons in a merger that formed Restaurant Brands International; a primarily American company, though headquartered in Toronto alongside Tim Hortons (for tax purposes). Both then and now, RBIs primary assets/interests are in America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah, good to know. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Their name is ‘restaurant brands’? that’s so blandly corporate evil

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry I didn't make the list, that is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Who did make it? What is its source?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Nor is Robin Good and Four roses

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tim Hortons is a fully owned subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International is a public company traded on the NYSE and TSE with its headquarters in Toronto. A Brazilian investment company 3G Capital owns 32% of Restaurant Brands International via "3G Restaurant Brands Holdings LP".

Does that make it a Canadian company? Who the hell knows. It sure doesn't feel like it, even if it does technically have a Canadian HQ. I guess theoretically it means they pay their corporate tax in Canada. But, realistically, they probably are using various tax dodges to avoid paying much of anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

IMHO they stopped being Canadian when they switched to hiring the cheapest TFW's they could, while championing how Canadian they are in all their advertising. Being Canadian is more than having your HQ in Toronto and sticking a maple leaf on everything.

Plus their food sucks now.