New Shanghai store — with hockey sticks for door handles and maple leaves on lattes — had two-hour lineups this week — hey, it’s not American
Tim Hortons opened its first Chinese store on Tuesday, and the iconic Canadian coffee and doughnut chain is making no secret of its ancestry despite simmering political tensions between the two countries.The store in Shanghai — the first of a planned 1,500 — has hockey sticks for door handles and abundant maple leaves, on cups and dusted on the tops of lattes.Our brand has an essence and a spirit.
” Patrons crowd the newly opened Tim Hortons in Shanghai. Getty Images The China expansion is out of the Restaurant Brands International Inc. playbook.RBI, which owns Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, expanded Burger King in China by signing a master franchise agreement with the private equity firm Cartesian Capital Group — essentially designating a single franchisee to build out the market.Cartesian builds and runs the restaurants, with the option to sub-franchise them.
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