" The brutal transformation of Tim Hortons " will run its course and the franchise will degenerate into merely a chain of greasy spoons - just after the foreign management and investors bail with their cash ..... 
Typically Canadian ????

Herewith a more pleasant reality:
Our small town has been blessed by a lady entrepreneur who started a real European style cafe some years ago. The food is eclectic and excellent, the coffe the best, there are magazines and papers lying around to read, or our friends will join us. The owner takes personal care of her clients, pays her staff well and treats them with respect and responsibility. The prices are most certainly not that of the rock bottom franchises - but the quality of the experience more than compensates. Customers are in fract lining up and the owner is to be congratulated. But if we insist on lining up for plastic junk food don't blame the franchise busines model but look in the mirror. There is a market for quality ....