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http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/ab...temid=CTVNews/20090713/timmies_newyork_090713
CTV.ca News Staff
The new locations, 10 scattered throughout Manhattan and two in Brooklyn, were converted over the weekend from Dunkin' Donuts stores.
Nine of the 10 Manhattan shops opened today.
"New Yorkers are savvy customers, they understand good value and quality, and are prepared to try new things," David Clanachan, chief operations officer, U.S. and International, for Tim Hortons Inc. said in a statement.
"We are focused on earning the loyalty of New Yorkers and adding them to the millions of people who make Tim Hortons their daily stop for breakfast, lunch and snack times."
New York media were buzzing about the news over the weekend in advance of today's openings.
The New York Daily News described the chain to its readers as being "famed in Canada for its maple-glazed donuts and 'double double' coffee with two creams, two sugars."
And the New York Times called Timmies "an invader from the north in New York City's next battle of the doughnut chains."
The company also plans to open three more Manhattan locations in August. They will open inside Cold Stone Creamery ice cream outlets, a business pairing that could lead to as many as 100 co-brand stores in the U.S.
The company's move into Manhattan is not its first foray south of the border. Tims operates more than 500 U.S. stores, with its first opening in Tonawanda, NY, in 1984.
But the question is, will New Yorkers be won over by coffee and doughnuts, Canada-style?
One New Yorker who was sad to see the Dunkin' Donuts outlet in Penn Station close told the New York Daily News he will likely not be partaking in a "double double" anytime soon.
"It's not American," 32-year-old Matthew DiToro said. "I can't do it."
CTV.ca News Staff
The new locations, 10 scattered throughout Manhattan and two in Brooklyn, were converted over the weekend from Dunkin' Donuts stores.
Nine of the 10 Manhattan shops opened today.
"New Yorkers are savvy customers, they understand good value and quality, and are prepared to try new things," David Clanachan, chief operations officer, U.S. and International, for Tim Hortons Inc. said in a statement.
"We are focused on earning the loyalty of New Yorkers and adding them to the millions of people who make Tim Hortons their daily stop for breakfast, lunch and snack times."
New York media were buzzing about the news over the weekend in advance of today's openings.
The New York Daily News described the chain to its readers as being "famed in Canada for its maple-glazed donuts and 'double double' coffee with two creams, two sugars."
And the New York Times called Timmies "an invader from the north in New York City's next battle of the doughnut chains."
The company also plans to open three more Manhattan locations in August. They will open inside Cold Stone Creamery ice cream outlets, a business pairing that could lead to as many as 100 co-brand stores in the U.S.
The company's move into Manhattan is not its first foray south of the border. Tims operates more than 500 U.S. stores, with its first opening in Tonawanda, NY, in 1984.
But the question is, will New Yorkers be won over by coffee and doughnuts, Canada-style?
One New Yorker who was sad to see the Dunkin' Donuts outlet in Penn Station close told the New York Daily News he will likely not be partaking in a "double double" anytime soon.
"It's not American," 32-year-old Matthew DiToro said. "I can't do it."
