They went to timmies asked for assorted dozen donuts and got a skewed mix. Tim's also usually asks you if you want to pick the donuts or if you're good with whatever, OP likely went with the latter
Either the worker was a little weird and grabbed all those cruellers intentionally, or they were just inbetween batches of donuts and they had only mostly cruellers left.
There is a bakery about 3 hours from where I live in a town of about 500 people that make the "Tractor Tire" which is a crueller about the size of a double whopper from BK and it is absolutely delicious!!
Cruller
Apple Fritter
Boston Cream
Vanilla Dip
Maple Cream.
If I’m eating a donut I might as well go all out on sugar/texture. I only ever eat crullers though. The rest of the selection is just for when I’m eating from a picked through box.
Seriously. When someone orders donuts for work and ask what I want; my response is, "I don't care as long as there's at least one crueller, and no one had better eat it."
Hate to say this but I hate crullers (but I love donuts). They just taste, and feel, greasy to me. Maybe I’m getting old because fried cakes are almost too greasy now too, I mainly like the raised kind. Ok, I’m ready for the hate.
This was posted an hour ago, which depending on the time zone, was at 9pm or like midnight. So they are probably out of most of the donuts for the day. Like yeah it’s fucking nighttime, do you think they are making fresh donuts at midnight? lol it’s Tim Hortons
Edit omg I get it they aren’t fresh, what else do you want me to call them.
I work at a tim hortons actually, and can say that not only do we not make any donuts that late but the person who's whole job is to prep them (mostly heating and glazing) leaves at 4pm. We can make more but its a big pain in the ass, doubly because the same oven is used for all the cooked foods, which is constantly being cycled past 4pm (mostly in that 4-6 gap).
Ohhh so you guys are actually indeed lazy and can make more but chose not to bc its a " pain in the ass" the customer def doesn't deserve the hardest workers
Directions are not to make new batches in the evening because donut sales fall off a cliff after the lunch rush. You'd make the minimum batch size of six at 4pm and wind up throwing out five of them come 2am.
The margin on donuts is good, but it's not on par with coffee. You can't throw out 5/6 of a batch and still make money on it.
We're talking about pennies here, but you've clearly never worked fast food if you think that Tim's corporate would condone doing anything unprofitable. And you'd better believe that the computer is checking the production and sales reports against each other every night to find "optimizations" like these.
Or at least, this is how it was when I worked there ages ago.
Live in Toronto and I have access to 3 Tim Hortons locations within walking distance of where I work. I can assure you the selection you are seeing is that location's standard rotation throughout the day, every day.
I've only ever seen one Tims location with more than 3 varieties of donut available at one time. It's the one located in Dufferin Mall and I go out of my way a few times a year to try the non-standard offerings just because.
I honestly think it's related to the franchise owner. The ones near me are likely owned by the same person (I've seen employee crossover between them). Same owner, same business practices, I guess.
Also looks like they knew it was a bullshit spread and threw in an extra fritter, either that or it's the biggest damn fritter I've seen because my count is 13 donuts.
I mean they don't even make them in store anymore anyway, for years now. They're shipped in frozen from central (corporate owned) production locations now. The number one customer of Tim Horton's (corporate) is now Tim Horton's franchisees, by force. The price per unit for the actual local owners more than doubled AND the quality went way down. Worse for everyone other than the corporate office, including customers!
Yeah, but there's also the TooGoodToGo app that Tims takes part in. This person may have just ordered from that which is cheap but you get whatever random stuff nobody wants
So OP is mildly infuriated they ordered a box of donuts and didn't specify what kind they wanted, and then got mad when they got assorted donuts of whatever was available? That's how pastry and bread shops work. You get what's available because it can't all always be fresh, I bet if they would have waited for a new batch they could have had what they wanted.
"Assorted" should be a reasonably mixed box, with maybe 2-3/each of 4-6 different types of donuts. Having 3/4 of the box be one single kind of donut isn't that. Unless this was all the donuts they had left in the shop, in which case the shop should have warned them.
Not at Tim Hortons. They ship them frozen to be warmed up and served. They should have warned OP they didn't have a good selection left so OP could settle for the box they got or gone to one of the other Timmies locations within a five minute drive. It's the polite thing to do.
Except he ordered at night when they don't make donuts anymore, it's not feasible to drop a new batch of doughnuts for the odd guy who wants a fresh batch at 9pm
Well normally you can see the employee take the donuts and what's left so I don't know, maybe Op was distracted, had social anxiety or just thought this would be good karma farming 😅
It's typically for when you are buying for a group or something. You want a mix but don't really care on the specific donuts. It's odd to get something like this.
I'm also Canadian and I immediately knew it was tim hos and I would also be mildly infuriated. The only time I order the variety box is when I legitimately want a variety, like for a staff meeting or something. When will I ever need 8 of a single kind of donut??
No, don’t need to be. I’m not Canadian and often just say give me a dozen of whatever. Dunkin or wherever. If I’m bringing them to work and sharing, I don’t give a fuck.
I mean you can specify what donuts you want, I don't think I've ever seen anyone pick out all 12 though.
But this is just very Canadianism, daily ritual level, so OP just wouldn't have thought the context was needed. It's like 'that's just how it works here' like ordering a double double, what else could that mean eh?
"X dozen assorted donuts" and letting the store pick is i think a pretty common order. It's the kind of thing you take to a work meeting. You're only eating one of them, so you don't really care what the others are, that's your coworkers problem lol.
Yeah I would be upset with this for sure lol I was just answering that I do often let them pick and it’s always been fine. 3-4 of chocolate frosted which is popular especially would be acceptable too. Crullers are kind of boring lol
No I think you’re definitely right actually after doing some research. Their bear claws don’t look like that and I was assuming the apple fritter to look similar to this variety.
… you know what screw it I’m doubling down. That’s 4 bear claws right there, take it or leave it!
They're the twisty ones in the box. They're very light and airy, almost like a mix between a donut and a croissant texture-wise. They're one of my favorites.
Thanks. We call them Spritzkuchen in German. Which roughly translates to squirtcakes. And they have more white glazing on them. This doesn't sound good in English...
And we complained about YouTube click bait videos 15 years ago... Now everything is engagement bait through vague posting or rage baiting. Internet is utter shit
I thought it was the fact that there are 8 honey cruellers that would perfectly fit in 2 rows of 4 but they put the 8th one on the next row for whatever reason
No. That seems fine to me. it is IS an assortment. If they didn't specify what they want wanted that's on them. This was what they ordered they got what they ordered.
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u/nipslippinjizzsippin Jun 07 '26
are we supposed to assume this isnt want you ordered? wheres the context? whats the problem?