Ugh.  Not only is our national fast-food coffee chain bought by a foreign firm (that has no feel for the  Canadian Timmy thing), but this rapacious reduction of people to widgets on an assembly line is repulsive.
I get cost savings, the need to trim waste and increase people's efficiency. I've seen what happens in corporations when people who've worked there 20 years plus get kind of slack.  But this kind of brutal approach, where managers are boasting how they never see their families and workers are offered some champagne before have their jobs axed is particularly nasty - and rather representative of the modern corporate approach. If this is supposed to set the example for societal ethics, we're in a lot of trouble.

Anyway, there's every chance that at the end TH will be no different than any other coffee chain, and then good luck to these goons' investment.