We had a similar promo in the UK from McDonalds a few years ago.

As for Tim Hortons outside Canada, we have a few in the UK and Ireland apparently (http://www.knipe.org.uk/blogs/carla/...to_the_uk.html)

If you tell the driver (conductor? pilot? I dunno, what do you call the guy who drives the streetcar?) you'll grab him a coffee and a small box of tim-bits, he'll make an exception to the union rules, I'm pretty sure!

Just to update you, I won a coffee the other day, only my second win in about 25 purchases. Anger beyond words. And yet, I will return there tomorrow, as usual.

I've bought about 25 cups, grand total of 1 muffin, and 2 coffee's

A friend of mine won one of the BBQ's of course he lives in an apartment, and has no family in the area so he isnt quite sure what the hell he'll do with it... :lol:

I've now just won my second prize of the promotion - another coffee.

He can give it to me... my BBQ is due to be replaced.

I was on the phone with my ex last night, and she said she'd won the BBQ! I've only won a freaking donut. But I said that when I get back to Ontario and we are dividing up our posessions, I'm taking the old one!

Hey! I'm right here... no need to fight over the new BBQ. I have a nice backyard for it to sit in...

Actually, I always thought that Toronto is under-Timmed.

But, maybe because I grew up in Hamilton (the birthplace of Tim Hortons by the Way, Store No. 1 is on Ottawa Street and Ron Joyce was a cop in the Hammer at one time).

It seems like there are tim hortons on every major intersection in Hamilton.

On Upper James, I think there are four within about a 5 mile stretch of each other. (I never really count the ones in gas stations though, and I never buy stuff at them because I always consider them Faux Tim Hortons.)


Where I live - Bloor West Village, there are no Tim Hortons. There's a mini one on Dundas just west of Jane, but they are usually sold out of everything. And the one on Jane and Enterprise, is almost Eglinton and, well, Tim Hortons can vary quite a bit, and it's one of the worse ones. (Renforth, just south of Eglinton is one of the better ones for example.)

There are none in Parkdale that I can think of either.

None in the High Park Area.

None in the Roncessvailles area.

There's all of one on the Queensway, if the Queensway was in Hamilton, there would be 5 or 6 along its length.

No, Toronto definitely needs more Tim Hortons (and good ones, not those crappy mini ones in Gas Stations.)

Store No. 1

http://www.timhortons.com/en/news/ne...ive_1999b.html

BTW, Tim Hortons shares are going to IPO in the near future.

Could be a buy, however, unless they catch on in the states (doubtful), where is the growth going to be?

We're currently at Yonge and Finch. We work at Yonge and Sheppard. I pass 3 Tims in that space (2 subway stops) and there are 2 more just to the south within walking distance before hitting the 401, and one more just north of Finch. Oh, and one in the Finch subway station. That's 7 Tims within 5 minutes drive of one another.

Of all of them, however, only 2 are obvious - the rest are smaller jobbies inside the subway, the Dominion, the Esso station.

http://web.sa.mapquest.com/timhorton...=5km&x=44&y=23

store locator thingie

It's funny, I remember reading a news item that was all about Tim's finally cracking the Toronto core. It went on about the two closest Tim's (there is on street level at Colege and Yonge and one right below at the entrance to the Subway).

I can remember, not too long ago, when it was very hard to find a Tim's down here (by the way, Yonge and Finch is hardly down town -- I lived at both Yonge and Finch and Yonge and Sheppard... I know :) ).

If you look at the map, Parkdale, Queen West, Bloor West, King West (there is one in the gas station at Stachan and King), Dundas West, Little Italy, etc. do not have Tim's.

The closest to me, at my office at Richmond and Spadina, is Front and Peter, Spadina and Nassau or King and John. But by the time I actually walked to those locations, I would have to pass a large number of other places that offer superior product.

By the way, there is something screwy about the store locator. I widened the search to 10K around Toronto... It shows two locations at Dundas and West (stores 68 and 69). I can safely say that there are no Tim's there as I drive through that residential neighbourhood everyday.

Another loss yesterday.

Here is a live one, if every body is ready, I am about to rrrroll up the rrrrrim.

Read...


The top is off....


The rim has been wiped dry....

Rrrrrrrroling (or should it be unrrrrolling?)...

Wait...a...minute....

Can it be......?


Yes, it can...another loss.

Congratulations Sticky!!!!

Thanks,

I am looking for the worst record.
I don't buy that many coffees, but how many of you can say that you have a 0 winning percentage?

I just won another coffee. So that is 4 wins total now I think.

Link to Story

Not all rims rrroll up equally
Last Updated Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:09:06 EST
CBC News

The odds of winning a big prize when you roll up the rim on a cup of Tim Hortons coffee depend on where you live, CBC News Online has learned.

Canada's biggest fast-food chain is running its annual spring promotion that offers customers a chance to win prizes ranging from a cup of coffee to a $33,000 sport utility vehicle.
The Roll Up the Rim contest offers customers a chance to win prizes ranging from a cup of coffee to a sport utility vehicle. (CBC Photo: Cheryl Krawchuk)

Albertans and Atlantic Canadians have nearly twice the opportunity of driving off in one of the 30 SUVs as people in Toronto or southwestern Ontario.

If you live in Quebec, where Tim Hortons is battling for market share with rival Dunkin' Donuts, your chances are even better – a one in four million shot at the SUV, versus one in eight million for B.C. and one in 11 million for southern Ontario.

The same is true to a lesser extent for the three other big rewards: 100 plasma televisions, 500 cash prizes of $1,000 and 10,000 barbecues.

A spokesman at the company's headquarters in Oakville, Ont., was initially unaware of the prize distribution breakdown and had to check with corporate lawyers before confirming that the odds have been skewed for at least the past couple of years.

"There are only 30 cars," Greg Skinner said. "If it was all equalized, some places like P.E.I. or New Brunswick might not get one at all. This is just about trying to create some excitement."

The overall odds advertised by the company of winning one of the SUVs is one in 8,296,300. While a longshot, the chances are at least better than those of picking up the Lotto 6/49 jackpot, which are roughly one in 14 million.

I never said Yonge and Finch was downtown - it is Toronto, however. Tim's is smart, they go where the traffic is and where people will stop. A lot of the ones you guys aren't seeing are in gas stations, grocery stores and subways. Of the 7 I mentioned in my area, only 2 are storefronts. The others are within other structures (Esso, the subway, Dominion).

Are you trying to say Dundas and Weston? Dundas and Bloor West?

Anyway, Canada411 your local Tim's if the locator is not to your liking.


http://canada411.yellowpages.ca/sear...rectory&Se=smp

The Store Locator shows stores located at Dundas East and West Ave... These stores are actually located at Dundas West and The West Mall.

It's amusing.

http://xml.sa.mapquest.com/?transact...89472666365838


As for Finch and Yonge being in Toronto... I wasn't clear with what I was saying. I was attempting to tie it to my point about the core being the last hold out for Tim's.

I agree, they have been expanding like crazy all over Toronto. The closest to my house is at Logan and Danforth (it used to be a Tim and Wendy's combo but they just closed the Wendy's). I am surprised they aren't in Parkdale... Liberty Village could really use a Tim's.

You are right about the traffic. The other two Tim's close to me are all about the car. The one at Carlaw and Lakeshore (in a new gas station) and the one at Leslie and Lakeshore are not especially pedestrian friendly.

Liberty Village? Is that a condo development or something? Tim's likes the all day traffic, if it is residential only, then they pretty much just get the morning and afternoon rush.

But I dunno - I lived in Parkdale when it was a slum, not trendy nouveau urban chic!

Here is the link to a pdf with rules and prize distribution from 2005

Liberty Village is the area formerly known simply as King and Dufferin. There are a ton of new residential condos and town homes as well as a ton of warehouse/office space conversions. In other words, day and night traffic.

They do have one in the Esso station at Stachan and King but it isn't close enough to get the new media workers in the village... If they has snapped up the retail space on the north west corner of King and Dufferin they would have made a mint. The area is sorely under-represented by coffee places.

Those don't count.

They aren't the same, the suff is never fresh, ugh.

They absolutely are fresh. Head to any of the Tim's in the Esso on Yonge south of Sheppard, the Esso at Don Mills and Finch or the one in Dominion at Yonge and Church, and tell me it isn't every bit as good as the big storefront places.

The java is always fresh and they get pastries and doughnuts a couple times a day.

You know where would be a GREAT spot to build a store would be down around Spadina and Front. Right where all those new faceless boxes (condos) are being built.

There are something like another 29 planned for that lot from Spadina to Bathurst, F.G. Gardiner, north to Front Street.

That's thousands of plebes trapped in the suburban like downtown box.

In the morning, they would all be dying for a Tims.

We should all put in 100 grand each and open up our own Tim Hortons!!

Nothing could stop us.

I think you're right... that would be a good spot. It's also stumbling distance from the Skydome.

Maybe the one by you, but the one in the Esso at Bloor and South Kingsway, you might as well eat car board, it would be fresher and better.

I've lost my ability to participate, officially speaking. I can win coffees and such at stores other than my own, but I would be unable to claim the big prizes.

The whole thing is pure marketing genius, as is evidenced by the fact that they bring it back year after year. I don't think they could stop it now if they wanted to; the public outcry would be unreal.

Not that they want to.

I particularly enjoy the signs in store that display the total number of winning tabs at that store, it's a nice touch. They make a nice big number to look out without giving any real idea of what the store's volume is. In point of comparison, my store is at approximately 5000 winners as of now. Sounds like a lot, right?

Well, sure. Unless you consider that we make approximately $5000 gross per day (my estimate based on past experience), and that most of that gross comes from orders costing less than $4. I unloaded the truck today; on it were approximately twenty boxes of cups containing 1000 cups apiece. We will use nearly all of those by the time the truck comes again, this time next week.

And we're not even a very busy store.

In that light, 5000 winners in the month or so we've been running the promo doesn't seem like all that much.

Toronto locations aside, my wife and I now estimate that we've had 30 cups these last couple weeks and have won nothing, even in 'odds stacked' Alberta.

I hate this promotion. Too much extra business. I buy the coffee because I'm tired in the morning without it. I don't like the extra lines caused by these johnny-come-lately-rollers-of-rims.

I would also like to say that I walk right past a Second Cup and a Starbucks every day. I also walk by a mom-and-pop fairtrade coffeeshop, and if I walk another block over, I pass a Roasters. I am not really a fan of the higher priced, often burnt and stale offerings of the other shops. Give me a blind taste test, I think I'll chose the mass produced and mass perfected Tim's blend.

First of all, as you TO dwellers should know, it is "Skydome" not "the Skydome".
Second, it is Rogers Centre now.

Get with it man.

I refuse to call it anything but Skydome... as for the use of "the", I did not call it The Skydome, I said, the Skydome. Small but big difference.


:P

No, I believe that the wanted it used like a Name.

Like, it is also stumbling distance from Sticky or Skydome.

I think it is dumb, but what can you do.

Hmmm... well I know it's not a Skydome... whatever.

The Man has decided that it is the Rogers Centre.
Just like the Molson Centre became the Bell Centre.

Those rat bastards

Ditto that.

It was christined SkyDome, SkyDome shall it be.

No-one I know calls it the Rogers Centre.

Fuck Ted Rogers that egomaniac. It cost 580 million to build, he bought it for 25 million.

Why would you be upset at Ted Rogers. Looks like he got a good deal, no?
Who sold it to him and ripped off the taxpayers?

Another losing cup.

some thoughts:

First: Ding! my second cup of free coffee. But then I bought a round of 5 large for my Kumon tutors on the weekend, and don't know how those fared....

Second: I always thought that Toronto was under-Timmed as well, especially considering the number of those stores that I saw in Nova Scotia when I was out there. Incredible density. They are definitely over-Timmed.

Third: I hate the name Roger's Centre. I can never figure out immediately what is meant. When I first heard it, I had no idea that the_Skydome was renamed to that. I also know that its real name was Skydome. But I don't know anybody who said just 'Skydome'. It was always 'the Skydome' with a small 'the'.

Fourth: I was in a Tim's on the weekend, and noticed that their advertising now states explicitly that you actually WIN the CAR, not the LEASE. Some bad press going around?

You may recall that the original name was decided through a public suggestion contest. The winning submission was just "Skydome", so that became the official moniker, regardless if the submitter implied the use of "The" or not.

I always included "the".

My favourite entry from that contest was: the "Canadian Ontario National Dome" or CONdome. heh.

Given the history of the dome... CON dome is funny a couple of levels.

Which levels in particular?

:lol:

Especially in the far reaches of Level 500! Very private there during the mid-90's

..... nope, not this time either
 

every time they bring out rrrroll up the rim, i make a point to go to tims for a lg tea .... only time i really go there all yr. ... i am 0 fer 16 so far this time around .... gotta admit its quite the marketing gag ... gets me sucked in every time ...

Soy un Perdidor

I took my son to his dentist appointment this morning and lo and behold, there is a new (to me anyway) Tim Horton's at the South East corner of Yonge and Eglinton... I bought my first Tim Horton's coffee since last summer...

I rolled the rim and felt just like Sticky.

I hate those special spanish cups too. Although I would actually prefer it if my cups came right out and said it too.

Oh look! I've been Stickyed.

http://static.flickr.com/19/11759077...c78ad5.jpg?v=0

In prior years, the grand prize was a lease rather than the actual car. This wasn't very well advertised, but as time went on more and more people found out the truth of it. Seems this year TDL has bowed to public pressure and stopped skimping.

They make enough money, I reckon they can afford a few $35k SUV's.

It's amazing isn't it? Brand new place, was filled to the rafters when I went by last weekend. Goddam gold mines.

I don't drink Coffee any ways, but I get maybe 2-3 Hot Choclates(sp) and win 1 or 2 times:D

But its only Donuts or Muffins:hmm:

I'm now a whoping 0-18.

The kick in the face is the damn sign I see everyday that tells me how many thousands of winners there are in that location alone.

Time to find a new Timmies to buy from.... :thumbsup:

Three seperate locations. Two people purchasing semi-regular coffees. One whining Bossnass and his multi-year zero win streak.

Ding! A free doughnut from the Timmy's at Vic Park and Sheppard

OK, I'll be the first to go there ... think that guy who blew himself up downtown today at the Tim's on Yorkville did so out of frustration, having hit his 25th "Please try again" rim?

Blew himself up??

I thought it might be Sticky getting a little frustrated with losing so much...

I can't get over how bad RUTR sucks out here in Atlantic Canada! And I keep reading about how your odds of winning are better out here?

Glad to see you are still here. I feared for you.

;)

No worries... I am actually in the south of France right now. Besides, my office is in the Queen and Spadina area... Yonge and Bloor is a world away.

hope your phone camera is capturing some tantalizing southern French images....

Last week I made the following joke at work.

Co-Worker: "Man, my cups always tell me to 'Pleae try again'. This blows."

Me: Yeah? Mine told me to burn things.

Who knew I wasn't alone?

Swear to it in court and let's launch a class-action. There's gotta be at least a box of Tim-Bits in it for everyone.

I am also on a multi-year loosing streak.

And, no, I did not blow anything up in TO.

Another live un-rolling....


Nope...nothing new in my world

I've been going to Timothy's for the last week or so. My Tim's dissapointments have driven me away.

I always wondered how a place can open up and call itself Timothy's.
I originally thought that is was a division of Tim's but someone told me that I was wrong.

Why didn't Tim's sue?

Timothy's has been a gourmet coffee chain (before starbucks was on every street corner) in the states for years... starbucks seems to have replaced most of 'em...

Wasn't it Albert Einstein who said the defintion of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

maybe it's time to switch to a different coffee place :D

I've switched to beer...

good canuckistani citizen... :D

Any good French beers?

I went to my neighbourhood drive thru this morning (why I still go to the local Tims is beyond me, they are rude, surly, and they constantly fuck up my order) and they put sugar in my coffee! 'Course I didn't notice this until I was on the TCH, so when I got to where I was going, I poured the offending coffee out on the ground, and rolled up the rim. DING! Free coffee! Now with any kind of luck that the universe is going my way today, this one will roll up to show a plasma tv and later I can post in the "Ding! got some thread"...

I've been on an extended dry spell. I'm only at 4 or 5 wins this round, normally I end the campaign with around a dozen or so. I've never won anything larger than a coffee

Ding! free coffee this morning. Unfortunately, it was the cup that I purchased for my colleague...

Tried the Caramel chocolate doughnut as well. The caramel is a little bit sweet. I think it would be better if the caramel was drizzled on top of the chocolate, and there was cream puff filling....

I've been wanting to try that one, thanks for the review!

Gah! You're making my teeth hurt, just reading that.

I assumed it was Canadian - their central facilities are located in Toronto, and there are tons of them here.

I liek Timothy's far more than Starbucks or Second Cup - I have no idea why Starbucks thinks burning the coffee and charging a premium for the service makes good sense.

hehe. mine were aching too. mmmmmm doughnuts.


as far as Timothy's goes, I like their coffee, especially the strong. What i really don't like is that every time I come close to a Timothy's kiosk in a mall, all that I can smell is their hazelnut flavoured coffee. It's too overpowering and I end up just steering clear of them.

I agree... I really don't like Starbucks coffee. The coffee I like best is from the small Toronto chain called, The Roastery. They consistently make the best coffees and lattes (as far as I'm concerned).

Second Cup and Timothy's come second as I see them as pretty much the same thing. Year's ago I used to think Timothy's was just a fancy Tim Horton's (much like Richard D ice cream vs. Dicky Dee).

1st win in two years....a cup of coffee...and I don't even care for their coffee.

Oh well.

the cups have dissapeared for the season anywhere around here.

I hate roll up the rim to win.... I've bought 16 extra large hot chocolates and have won nothing, not even a donut. Last year was my record year... 17 times in a row. The guy I'm working with is on his 4th in a row. I need to start buying Large double creams.

According to the website: http://www.timothys.ca/Content/aboutUs.asp

Timothy's is Canadian. There is no mention of US operations.

I saw a sign out in far-South-Eastern Connecticut. Here's an article from 2004:
timhortons
I was rushing, I didn't stop in.

I saw my first Roll up the Rim commercial yesterday.

Spring is in the air.

Well, i got my first Roll up the rim this morning and so far I am 0 for 1. I'm drinking my second now but I'm a good hour away from finishing that one.

Biggest prize i've ever won is a donut.

It's that time of year already??

--hmmm is there a Timmy's in Jamaica? (March Break trip destination).

My guess would be.... no.

No Tim's here anymore... sadly I will not be able to lose at roll up the rim this year.

I wonder which Tims is the closest one to you, geographically. Would it be the one in Afghanistan?

I bought a cup yesterday and lost again.

My streak continues

i'm 0 for 6 so far. darnit.

I'm 0/3 plus two years. Wife's co-worker won $1000 already.

already this year? you mean she won 500$ twice or there is a 1000 prize?

Maybe one of us should mail you one of our losing rims for a little slice of home for you :lol:

I assume it was one win, I don't know for sure. I asked if she won anything yet, she told me she hasn't had a tims for awhile, but a nurse that has been on her ward won $1000.

I go ever morning for me and a co-worker, i kept the spreadsheet from last year where at one point i was on a terrible 0/26 streak before FINALLY winning a effing donut. this year so far I am 1/3 with a free coffee this morning.

ooohhh sweet coffee.

actually, my bad, the prize is 1000$.

Damn....0/2

Sigh, 0/3. On the bright side a co-worker that I give a ride into work everyday has been buying my morning coffee so I may be losing but atleast I'm losing on his dime :lol: