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The lab store at the base of Tim Hortons Inc.’s headquarters in downtown Toronto opened in the summer of 2019 to much fanfare, promising “a modern interpretation” of the aging coffee shop brand. The chain was trying new things, such as selling fancier doughnuts and pouring lattes from a tap like draft beer in a pub. People lined up to get inside.
More than two years later, Tim Hortons has closed its so-called innovation cafe for good, blaming the pandemic that emptied Toronto’s financial district of all its coffee-drinking office workers.
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A sign of maturity or the times? Tim Hortons closes its much ballyhooed innovation cafe
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The social audio app Clubhouse is seen on a mobile phone in this illustration picture taken February 8, 2021. Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, March 9 Last month, during a live game show on audio-chat app Clubhouse, tech entrepreneur and investor Noah Lichtenstein and his co-hosts handed out US$3,200 (RM13,200) in prizes funded by Square Inc-owned payment company Cash App, which sponsored the event.
Days later, top executives from Restaurant Brands International, owner of fast food chains Burger King and Popeyes, created their own Clubhouse room to let people quiz them on anything they wanted after their quarterly financial report in an event billed as “Open Kitchen”.