Tim's demographics

I come to Tim Hortons to write, because I have a lot of distractions at home.  When I come with a computer I can actually surf the net correctly and usefully, that is i am not distracted by porn (I admit it) and I don't play computer games either.  

I have noticed that Tim Hortons means different things in different communities.  The community that I am now in almost everyone is using the wifi.  The vast majority of people are sitting alone and eating and using their devices.  The part of the city I am in is very ethnically diverse the twenty patrons are from four or five continents, they speak a variety of languages and appear to be lower to middle class.  The staff is equally diverse.

In LittleSmoke the staff was mostly white and the customers were mostly aged and upper to middle class.  There was a lot of foot trafic and people arrived to be social.  Other than the occasional meeting or job interview, there was very little business going on.  Although acessible, I never saw a single disabled person enter and no wheel chairs.  The one I am sitting in in BigSmoke I have been in twice and I have seen two disabled people in wheel chairs enter.  There is diversity in the origins of its clientele, but the majority is white sprinkled with minorities.

In Smallville, the clientele reflects the town: white.  There was a range of ages in the staff and customers; a full range from very old to very young.  Most of the people were social arriving as a social destination.  As with LittleSmoke Smallville Tim Hortons, was a destination of church people after service, except the age of the parishioners, young to middle aged in LittleSmoke and very old in Smallville.

It is interesting to see how a place reflects the community that it resides.  The current BigSmoke location has had a lot of babies in the past two days.  More than LittleSmoke did in a year.  

This Tim Hortons is outside a half dozen 10-15 story apartment buildings, a housing development and a major grid BigSmoke street.