[myth_drannon]

And who is going to work in Tim Hortons(or take care of your elderly parents)? At least in Montreal, due to stuff shortages many Tim's are half closed with huge lines or drive throughs only. I have never seen anything like this. Also on Monday are elections in Quebec and all they can talk is about immigrants and how to limit immigration(Quebec has a separate immigration program).

[cpsns]

The huge lines are more due to the insane menu Tim’s has right now. It’s far too complex and requires endless context shifting from workers. The workers at my local Tims have been complaining about it for a long time.

The half closed ones though? Yah, that’s a worker shortage. My local one started by closing the dining area and then started closing at 8PM simply because they can’t staff it. Of course they can’t, they only offer minimum wage.

[missedthecue]

Interesting that it is cheaper to close the entire operation than it is to increase labor expense. Must be thin margins in that business.

[lotsofpulp]

Restaurants and food service have low margins in general.

It is usually easy enough to make at home or not have at all, so if prices get too high, customers can easily do without.

[sbaiddn]

Its a volume business. Timmys is really inexpensive. Some stuff are good. I liked their lunches. Their coffee is terrible, albeit better than Starbucks (low bar)

[ultrasaurus]

The margins on coffee are amazing, but I suspect coffee makes up a smaller % of sales after 8pm so the late night mix might have much thinner margins.

[sn0w_crash]

You think immigrants are limited to pouring coffee and watching the elderly?

[pseudo0]

The government has a special program for "temporary foreign workers" that has historically been used to staff Tim Hortons and nursing homes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/who-s-look...

[myth_drannon]

Of course not, I'm an immigrant myself. But I never saw a Canada born person working in Tim Hortons(major cities, not middle of nowhere) Starbucks of the other hand doesn't hire immigrants, just hipster Humanities PhDs :) I'm generalizing of course!

[sbaiddn]

Because there were no Timmy's or nursing homes before we all showed up?

[missedthecue]

I think he's implying that the immigration system as it presently exists primarily brings in a class of person that is unlikely to work at Tim Hortons, but likely to be a customer of Tim Hortons. This exacerbates the waiting times.

That said, I do not live in North America. I am inferring from context.