Tim Horton’s

Canadians’s love their Tim Horton’s!
So much that there are over 3,000 locations in Canada, and another 500 in the US. Up until recently, there was even one on the Coalition base in Kandahar in Afghanistan. And During the first Gulf War in the 1990s, Tim Hortons flew coffee and donuts to Desert Storm 1 Canadian troops, and splashed commercials about it over Canadian TV for years.
This is store #2248. For those Americans who don’t know Tim Hortons’s, it is sort of a Dunkin Donuts meets Subway. This location is open 24 hours, has free Wifi, and has a mix of local students with computers and a lot of older folks who love their coffee and donuts, and soups and sandwiches.
Tim Horton was a professional Hockey Player in the NHL. He played for 4 teams as a big hulky defenseman over 24 years up until 1974, with the bulk of his pro career with the Toronto Maple leafs. He died at 44 years of age crashing his Pantera sports car on the QEW while being intoxicated and driving 100 mph.
His partner Ron Joyce bought out the Horton Family for $ 1 million when it had 40 stores. Oddly, his son married one of Tim Horton’s daughters to bring it full circle.