Renegade Tim’s group claims as many as 1,500 franchisees

The renegade Great White North group of Tim Horton’s franchises (GWNFA) has support from as many as half the firm’s outlets in Canada, its president David Hughes said Friday.  The count of Canadian Tim’s stores at the end of 2016 was said to be somewhere around 3,500. Hughes says the support has grown in the less than a year since he took concerns about penny-pinching and advertising surcharges public. He said many franchisees wanted to join the group anonymously for fear of backlash from owner Restaurant Brands Inc. (RBI). The GWNFA and RBI have taken legal actions against each other.  GWNFA filed a $500-million lawsuit in June alleging RBI improperly used money from the national advertising fund. The allegations have not been proven in court and RBI has said it vehemently disagrees with and denies the allegations. These are all rich people of course. They say you can’t get a Tim’s franchise in Southern Ontario without a net worth of $1.5 million and unencumbered cash of $500,000.

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