Burger King and Tim Horton's: It's a done deal!

Well it’s a done deal. Tim Horton’s has agreed to a takeover by Burger King in a deal worth 12.5 billion dollars. The deal should be final by the end of 2014 or early 2015 as stated at a joint press release earlier today. The deal will see the Burger King / Tim Horton’s conglomerate become the 3rd largest fast food chain.

What a sad, sad day. Another American company coming into Canada and taking what little we have left that’s purely Canadian. I know, business is business and I realize that. I sincerely doubt Tim Horton’s was hurting for dough, pardon the pun, but yet I guess the deal offered by Burger King was too sweet to resist. I guess the investors are happy now, as they fill their already engorged pockets with even more cold hard cash. It would make your stomach turn.

So here I am, staring across the kitchen at my Tim Horton’s coffee brewer made by Bunn (best damn coffee machine on the planet by the way,… just saying) with my can of Tim Horton’s coffee sitting in the cabinet, and I’m just thinking when is the next merger going to phase all this out. It’s time to rip the Canadian identity down and make way for the good ol’ red, white and blue. Call it a day folks, the American’s have invaded. They haven’t only invaded, they are taking over and they haven’t fired a single shot. I guess in order to qualify that as a statement, Target actually would have had to succeed instead of loosing money. Then again Wal-Mart moved in and they were pretty successful.

The US congress must be licking their wounds today, after the news of Burger King moving out. What an insult to our American neighbours. Burger King is not only moving out, they are moving to a  northern socialist province in Canada, at least that is what most American’s think.

Well, for now I still have my Tim Horton’s coffee brewer and my can of coffee. Who knows when the next big merger will change Tim’s into Starbucks or some other God awful bog water. To be completely truthful, I’m a little pissed over the whole thing, but I’ll get over it in a day or so. Canadian’s in general, on the other hand, will be feeling the Burger King pinch for years to come. On the bright side, Tim Horton’s had a good run I guess. Fifty years is not bad. There are still a few truly Canadian companies left,… aren’t there? I’m not even sure anymore.