Déjà vu - Your Double Double will no longer be served in a Double Cup

Good news!! Finally... after many years... Tim Horton's is letting go of double-cupping every customer's double-double. It really seemed like an insane practice... Twice the litter. Twice the plastic cup liners. Twice the cost. Twice the everything.

But no longer... Timmies has decided to go the way of almost every other take-out coffee provider and use cardboard sleeves to protect the hands of Canadians. Smart, right? Less plastic, less waste, less everything. Except... you're not alone if you're getting a sense of deja-vu. We've been here before... seven years ago to be exact.

Apparently, Tim Horton's flirted with cardboard sleeves in the past... in 2013 to be precise...at least in Winnipeg. What happened to the cardboard sleeves? Did they not take off? Was it too much trouble? Oh, and it wasn't just Winnipeg... I found this article which talked about McMaster's University in Ontario... I've sent a Facebook Message to Tim Hortons headquarters asking what happened to the first double-cupping switcheroo... and what makes this switcheroo different. We'll see if/with what they respond.

Tim Horton's cardboard sleeves - 2013
From Inside Timmies site

It's kind of crazy when you think about it. All this foo-fa-rah about abandoning double cupping in favour of cardboard sleeves... annnnddd... it's all been done before. Sigh.

On the other hand, at least they've gotten rid of the practice of handing out disposable Roll-up-the-Rim cups with your porcelain mug of coffee when you eat-in. That was also kind of crazy. 

Of course, the best thing to do is bring your own reusable coffee cup but... in the age of covid-19, that is frowned upon and a bit hard to do in a drive-thru. Ah well... Maybe this version of cardboard sleeve will stick around at Timmies...