Tim Hortons press photo.
Tim Hortons and 340 of its Canadian shop owners have a combined CA$400 million investment — approximately US$290 million at the time of this writing — to build 80 new locations and renovate 400 others across Canada in 2026.
As part of the chain’s most aggressive retail push in decades, the investment mix includes CA$270 million from Canadian restaurant owners and CA$130 million from Tim Hortons corporate. The projects are aimed at both customer-facing upgrades and back-of-house efficiency.
The Canadian quick-service coffee giant said the remodels will focus on brighter interiors, improved layouts, stronger baked-goods displays, clearer digital-order pickup areas and upgraded kitchen equipment.
In a separate 2026 announcement, the company said it has already installed digital kiosks in more than 800 restaurants, with more coming, alongside upgraded espresso equipment and other beverage machines.
The 480 projects identified in the new plan span every Canadian province, plus the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Ontario leads with 214 locations, including 26 new builds and 188 renovations, followed by Alberta with 66 projects, Quebec with 65 and British Columbia with 51.
The Tim Hortons Canadian system includes nearly 4,000 shops owned and operated by approximately 1,500 Canadian restaurant owners. The company also maintains a major coffee roasting operation in Ancaster, Ontario — a Hamilton suburb — where a roughly 75,000-square-foot facility has been operating since 2009.
The announcement follows first-quarter results for parent company Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which reported consolidated system-wide sales growth of 6.2% year over year to US$11.51 billion. In an earnings call this month, RBI CEO Josh Kobza said Tim Hortons remains “focused on defending and extending our leadership in coffee, breakfast and baked goods.”
Notably, the announcement comes less than two weeks after Canadian restaurant franchisor Foodtastic announced a master franchising agreement with Dunkin’ owner Inspire Brands to open “hundreds” of Dunkin’ locations across Canada.
Tim Hortons also recently announced a campaign to hire 10,000 new local workers and scale back its use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program, following previous lobbying of the federal government related to the program.
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