Yay, Timmy's. They do really good coffee too.

Tim Horton's started spreading through New England about five, six years ago. I think they give DD a really good run for their money. I don't think the donuts are better, but the coffee is. They're a little cleaner and neater-looking, and the sandwiches and sausage biscuits are delicious.

I don't want to see DD go under, but they did get a bit lax while expanding furiously in recent years and considering themselves the only game in town. Their coffee's great when it's hot and fresh, but every now and then I get a really lousy cup, making me think they don't always stick to the '20 minutes on the burner and throw it out' system.

A little healthy competition could thus raise the quality of all donut and coffee performance NortheastWide.

Funny, a few years ago it was Starbucks. Now they and McDonald's are in a fierce competition.

Saw this in Penn Station this morning. I think it's the same stuff, different name.

We stopped at a Tim's in Toronto a few years ago because we'd seen about 50 of them between the border and the city and we figured that we had to try them out. It was OK but not much to remember other than the fact that the donuts seemed to be mandatory no matter what you ordered. I had a lunch sandwich and it came with a donut which seemed odd at 1:00 on the afternoon but I guess it's a Canadian thing.

At this very moment, there are some pretty stressed out people in each corporate headquarters, I am sure.

Hah! For once, Buffalo beats NYC to the punch; they've had Horton's up there for years.

Yeah, they've sort of been creeping southward from the Canada border. Probably to do with building supply chain efficiencies or something.

I had a lunch sandwich and it came with a donut which seemed odd at 1:00 on the afternoon but I guess it's a Canadian thing.

It's a Timmy's thing.

I love their breakfast sammich - it's the only way to get one with a biscuit in Canada.

The mister says Tim's coffee sucks; I think he likes it stronger. He was a die-hard Starbucks fan, but now likes Bean Around the World instead.

the most important reason i refuse to go to a Tim Horton's (besides the crappy weak coffee) is that when you walk into a store, you can never smell either coffee or donuts and for a place that sells coffee and donuts, thats just weird .

TH is HARDCORE about the toss old coffee rule. If you go in you'll see every pot has the time it was made written on the glass in grease pencil. I had friends who worked there, some locations actually write people up for neglecting to change the coffee.

But then, in Buffalo, it's rare for the coffee to stick around that long. Ten car lines at the drivethrough are the norm every morning. I used to go there all the time before I got laid off. Like, three or four times a week.

They also make the best breakfast available via drive through. The biscuits are seriously good.