My city, Sudbury, is pretty large geographically (3,201 km2 or 1,236 sq mi). We also have a ton of fast food places in and around the city. Considering that over 90% of our population also work within Sudbury (a very high percentage for Ontario), it would make sense for fast food locations to be strategically placed in all corners of the area.

Source: Information comes directly from the corporate websites of each chain. Larger corporations have more comprehensive location web pages built out, smaller chains had locations listed in a static header/footer component on their site.

Tools: Adobe InDesign, Excel.

Some other interesting facts:

-There are two locals on the list, Topper's Pizza at #3 with 8 locations, and Great Lakes Pizza tied for #7 with 3 locations. There are 5 pizza places on this list, Sudbury has a ton of pizza places in general.

-The chain experiencing the most flux in numbers the last decade or so has been Starbucks, with 4 closed locations (3 in other buildings, and 1 standalone location) and 3 open (all standalone locations).

-Tim Horton's having 31 locations is not surprising. We have about the same amount of locations as Saskatoon does (35). Saskatoon has a much higher population than Sudbury, but is less than a tenth in geographical size. Per capita, Sudbury has one Tim Horton's location for every 6100 or so people.

-10 locations are Canadian, 8 are US multinationals.

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42 comments

  1. Ontarians outside Toronto take their Tim Hortons seriously.

    I’m back home for Christmas, in an area with a Tim Hortons monopoly. Aside from an out of the way McDonald’s, there is literally nowhere else to go out for a coffee close by. And the locals are perfectly happy with it.

  2. 31 Tim Hortons and only 3 Starbucks?!

    The American mind can’t comprehend (I’m the American mind)

  3. Tim Hortons boggles my mind. I always see them jam packed. And then you constantly see people complaining about orders being wrong all the time.

    Well then stop fucking going there all the time

  4. How many of those places have Blueberry Bulldog signs in the window?

  6. It’s funny to me that social media is filled with residents of small Ontario towns raging against immigrants working at Tim Hortons, but at the same time they’re obviously keeping them in business.

  7. Canadian business have beautiful generic names, hey hun let’s go take the kids to “food”

  8. I start watching Shoresy and now I am getting random Sudbury content. Give yer balls a tug Sudbury

  10. Glad to see Canada still has A&Ws it is a lost art here in america.

  12. “There are 5,000 people and 31 Tim Hortons in Letterkenny. These are their problems.”

  14. “Can we have another Wendy’s? Please, I want some burger options.”

    Canada: “No, but can we interest you in five more Tim Hortons?”

    When we visit our aunt in Canada, there are five Tim Hortons’ franchises within a mile of her house (suburb, btw). Which is wild, but I’m not complaining because I love Tims. I loved stopping by service stations on the way for a quality cup.

  16. Deluxe didn’t make the list?! Can’t beat a good Deluxe chicken on a bun

  17. In a city of less than 100k people there are that many branches of that many fast food retailers? That is genuinely insane to me

  19. There an impossible amount of good looking girls in Sudbury.

  21. Haven’t had toppers pizza since I lived in Ontario like 20 years ago, I remember liking it and its dipping sauce.

  22. I thought Pizza Pizza was Little Caesars in Canada until I saw Little Caesars on here as well.

  23. Surprised with pita pit that high. I haven’t seen one of those in at least a decade. I live in America.

  24. We also have to take into account not all Tim Horton’s are full sized restaurants. Lots of smaller kiosks sized ones at hospitals, gas stations, public institutions that operate during business hours.

  25. Is Little Caesar’s and Pizza Pizza not the same thing there?

  26. What is Tim Hortons like, is it sort of like a Dunkin?

  27. There’s also an unbelievable amount of hot girls in Sudbury.

  29. So do y’all actually like Subway up there or is it just fast food herpes like it is down here? They’re everywhere in my city, popping up as fast as they shut down, and they’re always empty.

  30. So there’s a chain called “pizza pizza” that is the literal slogan of the other pizza chain, little Caesars?

  31. Damn I live in a town of 100k and we have seven Starbucks and I think two Tim’s lol

  32. awww, you still got PitaPit.. i miss those (orlando here)

  33. You have a place called Pizza Pizza AND Little Cesar’s?! I’m so confused right now.

  36. In Sudbury, I’m curious for the ratio of Timmies per opioids addicted.

  37. Do you guys even have fake Mexican food? I couldn’t live there.

  40. Sudbury is a one arch town.

    You need to cover deluxe burger!!!

  41. I’ve been thinking about a Harvey’s burger for last couple of months. Haven’t had one for a decade, that’s how you know they’re good.

  42. Quibble: “frequency” is a rate. These are quantities.

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