January 27 th

Not always Tim Hortons

Posted by Cuzzy as Halifax, Katie, Rant, daily news, opinions

Today I am going to share a tale of letdown and heartbreak. Today I will tell a story that might not change your life but for one moment in time, it will make you question what the hell is going on in the world today.

My journey began this morning when I decided it would be a special treat to walk down to Tim Hortons on Quinpool Road and pick up some breakfast sandwiches for Katie and I. Then I would take them home and we could have a nice meal where nobody would have to cook or make a mess of dishes. Sounds perfect right? I thought so to.

I made my way down to the bank first since I needed some cash. Tim Hortons does not accept Interac (crazy) so you need to have some coin in your pocket to buy their product. Don’t even get me started on this topic. I have bigger things to worry about than how to pay for something there.

I get the money, walk over and everything is on schedule. Katie’s coffee is brewing at home and I will be there soon enough with the hot and tasty sandwiches.

I wait in line for a good five minutes and finally get to the counter.

“Three sausage breakfast sandwiches please.”

There was a mumble behind the counter between two of the girls. The one said something back but it did not register with me. Maybe I was too excited to get the goods. Maybe she did not say it loud enough. Or maybe it was so insane that my brain blocked it out.

“We don’t have any eggs sir.”

My mind at this point could not even comprehend what was just said.

I could of asked 300 different questions or offered 200 snarky comments but I knew it was not the counter girls fault.

After a two second pause I finally snapped back to reality and declined ordering anything and left.

As I was leaving two other people ordered something that also needed eggs and they were also turned down. They also had the same blank stare and we really could of had a meeting outside called the No Egg Club.

I debated going elsewhere, either to another Tim Hortons or even Mcdonalds but I just went home.

You will be happy to know that I cooked up a breakfast that was better and much more tasty than the one I would of got at Tims.

That is not that point however and there were dishes!

How can a major chain like Tim Hortons not have eggs at 10:30am on Sunday? It boggles my mind. I guess they should change their latest hot product, the BELT, to just BLT.

Have you have a similar incident at Tims? Want to share? Can you beat no eggs? (pardon the pun)

At least they still had coffee and donuts.

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5 Responses

Colin

January 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

Well just this morning, I ordered a sausage and egg bagel and it was keyed in as a BELT with sausage. I just happened to catch it on the order queue screen all the way back in the kitchen before I made the debit transaction, and it was corrected.

Couldn’t they have put a sheet of paper up front saying they were out of eggs? Or heaven forbid, cook their own eggs?
cuzzy

January 27th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

you would think so.
KJ

January 28th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

I don’t any Timmy’s incidents….yet, but I do have a “Sorry Sir, we are out of chicken” at a Swiss Chalet! I’m no business genius, but I think it would be important to have an ample supply chicken at Swiss Chalet.
cuzzy

January 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

okay that is even worse.

no chicken???

that is crazy
Jolene

April 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Well, mine’s definitely not worse, but I have had the “out of that” thing happen at Tim’s.
They have their little special yummy things that they blast all over the tv at least a couple times an hour, then you go to get it and they’re “out of it”. I’ve had this happen numerous times a few years back with their White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies, they were “sold out” even at 9:00 in the morning….this was before it was admitted by Tim’s that their stuff was no longer baked fresh from scratch on site, but that was my first sign of that fact because how could you be all out of something you are supposed to be making lots of fresh all day long?
The other thing was those lemon donuts they blasted all over the tv last year. It had been a good year or two since I had even touched a donut, but the commercials for those lemon ones got the better of me, I had to go to 3 Tim’s before we found one that had any.

That no chicken at Swiss Chalet takes the prize though. We used to eat there all the time but won’t anymore, the last several times we went the service was absolutely dreadful, and their chickens keep getting smaller too. The last time we went there a half chicken dinner was the size a 1/4 chicken dinner used to be, and they used to fill up the remainder of the plate with fries, now they give you only about a dozen or so. I mean I know food portions have got bigger then they should be these days, but if you’re paying for a full plate of food, you want a full plate of food.

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