Where was Tim Hortons founded?

Tim Hortons Inc. is a fast food restaurant chain, specializing in coffee, doughnuts, and other fast food items. It is Canada's largest quick service restaurant chain; as of December 31, 2018, it had a total of 4,846 restaurants in 14 countries.

The chain's first store opened on May 17, 1964, in Hamilton, Ontario, under the name "Tim Horton Donuts"; the name was later abbreviated to "Tim Horton's" and then changed to "Tim Hortons" without the possessive apostrophe. The business was founded by Tim Horton, who played in the National Hockey League, from 1949 until his death in an auto crash in 1974. Soon after Horton opened the store, he met Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable, by 1967, after opening two additional stores, Joyce and Horton became full partners.

Tim Hortons' first stores offered only two products – coffee and doughnuts. In the mid-1990s the chain moved into specialty and premium items such as flavored cappuccino, iced cappuccino, and iced coffee. The menu contains a number of other baked goods, such as doughnut holes (branded as Timbits), muffins, croissants, tea biscuits, cookies, rolls, danishes, and bagels.

Tim Hortons is popularly known as "Timmies". The ubiquity of Tim Hortons, through the wide expansion of its outlets, makes it a prominent feature of Canadian life, its prevalence in the coffee and doughnut market has led to its branding as a Canadian cultural icon.