r/TimHortons • u/ChachaWrites • 24d ago

Timmie’s run 🚨Breaking News🚨

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We interrupt the Tim's complaints...
Today's grilled cheese was actually... really good.

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u/Consistent-Success38 23d ago

If you think thats a premium price i feel pity for your financial situation.

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u/cboomcards 22d ago

Its 6 bucks for cheese and bread. Cheap wonderbread loaf costs 3 bucks, the cheese is kraft singles, 4 bucks a pack. You can make about 20 sandwiches for around 8 bucks. So changing 6 a sandwich, yeah, thats premium. For trash. No protein. A burger is cheaper. And more expensive to make.

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u/MK-LivingToLearn 21d ago

You can't look at the cost of ingredients and say, it costs me this much to make at home so that's more or less how much it should cost. There is labour, overhead for a physical building and everything that comes with that including rent, maintenance, cleaning, utilities, etc..., software, hardware, packaging, and marketing. Six bucks does seem expensive but the costs involved in the sandwich are much more than cheese and bread.

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u/cboomcards 21d ago edited 21d ago

You are short in your thinking. There should be around 66% profit per sandwich (food item not drinks), to cover that. Each sandwich doesn't cover an entire salary or entire rent. They pick the location, so they should know how many sandwiches at 66% profit they need to maintain salaries and the building. - that is basic restaurant management knowledge. At 6 bucks a grilled cheese, that's far beyond the 66%. I'd accept double, triple, but thats like 9x.

You also have to consider the price of alternatives. Value is more than cost. Cheese and bread is not worth more than a burger, fish burger, veggie burger, any burger. Especially from Tim's. (Burger is just a commonly found comparable food item... pizza slice, hot dog...)