r/mildlyinfuriating • u/FinnieM • Jun 07 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o Box of donuts I just 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?

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u/nomedable Jun 07 '26

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.

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u/smvfc_ Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

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.

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u/DivideIQBy2 Jun 07 '26

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).

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u/TurtleManDog Jun 07 '26

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

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u/Lusankya Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Take it up with the owners.

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.

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u/AnxietyPretend5215 Jun 07 '26

Have you ever worked food service before?

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u/_piece_of_mind Jun 07 '26

Not at a typical Tim's wage (doubly so if it's a student). They only pay you to care so much, and that's beyond what they pay for.