Ha, the donuts don't even come in pails as slop. They come 75% cooked and frozen.

When I went to work there a few years ago, I remember being kinda excited to get to see inside the bakery, but when my hiring manager took me through the store on my first day, all I saw was a great big room with an oversized microwave in it and a rack with donuts on hooks. No mixer, no ovens, not fryers.

Than he took me into the freezer. It's huge and there are over thirty open boxes in front of huge stacks of more boxes. In the boxes are frozen donuts in an unsealed thin plastic bag. These go in the microwave oven.

I began to hate them around this time, but the truth is: they have a fairly consistent coffee that's easy to grab when your on the road, so they still get a fair amount of my business when I'm out. When I'm not out, the best thing I did was I picked up a used Bunn commercial coffee brewer, set the temperature to the actual ideal brew temperature (which can only be set on commercial units) to get that more mellow full bodied coffee and I always buy 18% Real Cream. Now I went from two to three cups of coffee a day at Tim's (which was making me broke) to two to three at home that is Guaranteed better than Tim's (because I consistently clean and calibrate the machine, unlike at Tim's where they forget to all the time, ruining the coffee and making me feel not too good about that two bucks I just spent). Went from spending $42-$56 a week at Tims to spending about $19 to drink better at home.