Question

Who is Tim Horton's leader? Provide a description of him/her. What contributions he/she has made to the company?

Answer 1

Ron Joyce

Ron Joyce was born and raised in Tatamagouche, N.S. His mother, who was widowed at the age of 23, raised Joyce and his two siblings in a home that had no water, no electricity and was heated with a wood-burning stove in the kitchen.

Joyce left home when he was 15 and moved to Hamilton, Ont. He served in the navy and later became a police officer before getting into the coffee shop business.

Tim Horton, who at the time played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, opened his first store in Hamilton in 1964. When he decided to expand, he chose Joyce as the first franchisee.

After Horton died in a car crash in 1974, Joyce took full control of the business and oversaw its growth into a billion-dollar business. There are now more than 4,500 Tim Hortons locations worldwide, including 3,600 in Canada.

Without Joyce, Tim Hortons as people know it today would not exist.

His well wishers said that "We probably won't see that kind of invention — somebody just create something that has such broad appeal across Canada that's so instantaneously relatable to the Canadian experience. We just don't see that now, and we probably won't see it again. And so in that regard, he's a legend."