HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THROWN OUT OF A TIM HORTON'S? ME NEITHER, TILL TODAY.
I do hate to trash a small business, but you can tell this is a independent franchise. I called the number listed on Google for this store because I was near it and wanted to know if the had Cream of Potato Bacon soup today. When they answered, they did not say "Tim Horton's." I asked, "is this Tim Horton's?" The girl (Shannon) said they're really busy, can you call back in 15 minutes. I said, "I'm sorry, but I'll be past the place in two minutes and..." She cut me off and said "well then you'll have to hold, I'm getting back to my line."
Irritated by my treatment, I stopped in. When I walked in, there were 4 girls huddled around the carryout window, 2 cars, one male employee at the counter, with one customer who was handed coffee as I walked up and he was done before I got to the counter, and another employee in the back (baking, I assume) I asked for the manager (Kaytlyn, I believe), and when she came to the counter, I asked if I could speak to her privately (I didn't want to make a scene in front of her staff or other customers). She came around the back to talk to me and when she arrived I asked her, "do you have Cream of Potato Bacon soup today?" She said "no." I said, "that question and answer took less than 3 seconds, and that's all I called for. And Sharron..." The manager cut me off, started throwing her hands up and said "whoa, her name is Shannon, and she doesn't know the answer to your question." I said, "how could she know the answer to my question when I never asked a question? You have 6 employees and 3 customers, how can you be too busy?" She said "well, Shannon works for the gas station and we share a phone." I said, "All I did was call the Tim Horton's number on the web. Nobody told me it's not your phone; how am I supposed to know that?" She said, "I did answer the phone, and no one was there." I told her "I said I was 2 minutes away. I hung up when I got in your parking lot. You know, I've run several corporate stores (true, various Domino's & Pizza Hut), and when a customer came to me with a complaint, the first words out of my mouth were 'I'm very sorry.'" She said "well (I think her favorite word is "well", you came in yelling at me." I said, I'm loud, but I'm not even close to yelling." She said, "well, she (pointing at Shannon 20 feet away) heard you. Shannon adds, "I can here you right now." I said "I'm not yelling now, and she can hear me now, it doesn't mean anything that she can hear me." By this time another off-duty employee, an older gentlemen, came over to try and calm us both down. Finally, the manager stands with her hands on her hip and parrots me as smug as can be, "well, I'm very sorry."
That's when I turned away from her and towards the exit and muttered, "F_ _ _ off." This sent her through the roof. She started yelling about "I'm a person" and telling me to get out of her store. The off-duty employee stopped me mid foul sentence (before I cursed again). He was right, I was wrong, so I stopped and walked out with him.
That's the whole story and I'm not proud for where I let her push me, but I have never been irritated enough to write a negative review, much less one this verbose.
BAD SERVICE. BAD MANAGER. And although I agree she is a person; she makes me feel like she is a BAD PERSON. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she had a really bad day. Maybe the place was packed 30 seconds before I got there. Maybe I overreacted, none of that justifies how she treated me, and that's why I wrote this review. I won't be returning to this Tim Horton's. Which is sad. read more