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Last Updated: 2026/04/26, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Factory Recently, the reputation of Canadian national coffee brand Tim Hortons has dropped like a cliff. From the quality of meals to the hygiene, from the quality of employees to the hiring problems of companies, almost everything has been scolded over and over again. in

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Recently, the reputation of Tim Hortons, a Canadian national coffee brand, has fallen off a cliff, from the quality of meals to hygiene, from the quality of employees to the problem of hiring people. This week, there were two more controversies at Tim Hortons in Toronto, putting the brand at the forefront once again.

On Sept. 1, a netizen "posted" a sandwich he had just got on the social network, and when he was about to take a big bite, he found that it was covered with chunks of mold, and in more than one place, people lost their appetite instantly. The netizen said he had just bought it from a Tim Hortons at Mississaguga and Steeles Ave W gas stations in Binton. Fortunately, he checked it before eating, otherwise it would be "mildew".

From the video, we can see that there is a huge gray-green mildew spot on the bread. When the man examined it carefully, he found several small mildew spots all over it, which was speechless.

After the video was exposed, many netizens who regularly patronized Tim Hortons called it "disgusting", but many more seemed not surprised, as this is not the first time the brand has been complained of being "dirty and messy".

Not long ago, for example, a customer filmed an astonishing scene at a Tim Hortons in Ontario, where several fruit flies were in the pastry cabinet, gorging on doughnuts. A photo that went viral on the Internet also showed that at a Tim Hortons in Winnipeg, a shop assistant was pressing the foot for another person.

However, in addition to worrying hygiene conditions, the Canadian national coffee brand also recently occurred a bizarre incident, which thrilled countless netizens.

On Monday, a student at Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto Metropolitan University) revealed on social media that an employee at a Tim Hortons near the school asked her to "spit" into an empty coffee cup. In the video, she keeps warning everyone: "Don't go to this Tim Hortons."

The student said the incident occurred on the afternoon of Aug. 22, when she was ordering coffee at Tim Hortons in Dundas Victoria when an employee suddenly handed her an empty cup when no one was around and asked her to "spit" into it. At that time, the employee also asked her, "I am doing an experiment to collect people's saliva. Can you help me spit into the cup?"

After hearing what the staff said, she was so shocked that she threw away the coffee she had just bought and called the store to ask to talk to the store manager. In response, the director of Tim Hortons said he would check the surveillance video and after confirmation, he asked the female student to forgive the employee because he was a child, only 16 years old and an immigrant from another country.

"if other people know about this, it may cost him his job, and it will be very difficult for him," the supervisor told the student who posted the video. Of course, such behavior is not allowed, but can you bypass him this time? " The recording of the conversation was also put on the TikTok video.

Faced with the remarks made by the director of Tim Hortons, the female student said, "I was against it. He said he would suspend the employee for a week, but I don't know if he really did." In addition, she contacted the headquarters of Tim Hortons, which said it would report the situation to the owner of the franchise store and then inform her of the latest developments.

Shortly after the video was released, someone left a message in the comments section saying that they had had a similar experience in the same store. In addition to the above-mentioned "saliva collection", two netizens said that they had been "asked for" hair by the employee. The reason is still to "do some tests or experiments".

In response to this situation, some media have contacted Tim Hortons, but no reply has been received as of press time.

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