Tim Hortons customers pay it forward 228 times in Winnipeg
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...ustomers-pay-it-forward-228-times-in-winnipeg
For three full hours and 228 orders, a generous chain of Tim Hortons customers in Winnipeg picked up the tab for the people behind them.
“It was an avalanche of kindness,” coffee chain spokeswoman Michelle Robichaud told the Star on Monday.
Paying it forward isn’t uncommon at Timmie’s, she said, but no one had ever seen anything like this.
It started at about 10 a.m. at the drive-through window at Tim Hortons on Beaverhill Blvd. in Winnipeg on Dec. 21. Light snow had been falling all morning, there were four shopping days until Christmas and the temperature was minus-13.5C.
“There was a lot of excitement inside the restaurant. Staff were shouting out numbers like, “It’s up to 147!” said Robichaud.
Eventually, someone who had their four coffees paid for decided to break the chain and pulled away without paying for the three coffees behind him.
“There were more guests in line,” said Robichaud. “Who knows what their motivation was?”
For the record, April 25, 2013 is International Pay it Forward Day.
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