Tim Horton's being bought by Burger King.

[Dinner]

Also, this. This means that Tim Hortons could start showing up wherever there's a Burger King. I can't wait.

I find those sort of two brands in one location deals don't really work well. I mean Carl's Jr has "Green Burrito" (some crappy American faux Mexican fast food chain which makes Taco Bell and Del Taco look good in comparison) sold in a bunch of their locations and now they're starting to sell Hardy's at the same place. That just muddies all three brand names.

[Sava]

Fast food is garbage and you deserve whatever diarrhea you get from it.

[The Mad Monk]

x-hippie'd

They don't have to be in the same building. They will have leverage getting permits and approvals just by benefit of having someone already there who knows the area and the the local government. Plus they can share purchasing power and supply lines.

[Dinner]

OK, I could see that. Supposedly those synergies are a lot harder to realize in real life than the theory folks claim though.

On the upside I finally got to try a Hardy's Thick Burger.

[The Mad Monk]

How'd you like it? Also, try their beer battered onion rings.

[Sava]

x-hippie'd

I bathe regularly and own zero bongo drums.

[Dinner]

How'd you like it? Also, try their beer battered onion rings.

I'll have to try the onion rings next time though the menu gets a bit confused given that three fast food brands are all selling out of one location and you pay the same cashier. I honestly don't know if they're selling the Carl's onion rings or the Hardy's onion rings or if they're both the same. The Thickburger was thick but I think the local outlet still is trying to dial things in wrt Hardy's because the burger a bit over cooked on the outside but it somehow still managed to be juicy. It wasn't quit as large as Carl's $5 burger but it was much bigger around which some how made it feel like a bigger burger.

[Ben Kenobi]

Sava - interesting to see that high corporate taxes would drive corporations away, which is exactly what we predicted would happen.

[The Mad Monk]

I bathe regularly and own zero bongo drums.

Oh, sorry.

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[Dauphin]

Hey Dinner, given the typo in the very first word of the Fox News headline, I was wondering if you wrote the linked article.

[Dinner]

Yes. It is my freelance gig.

[Fake Boris]

One of the first things we did when we founded this country (mark II) was ban interstate tariffs, because we realized how damaging they are. This is now happening with international tariffs, in the form of free trade agreements.

You might be mistaken on the reason why that was done.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Um... I don't think so...