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Fast delivery: No more PFK in Quebec, no more president for Tim and an Eggsquis fragrance!

Fast delivery: No more PFK in Quebec, no more president for Tim and an Eggsquis fragrance!

In this new edition of Fast Delivery, we have bad news for PFK enthusiasts in the Quebec region, an important announcement at Tim Hortons and the arrival of a new olfactory strategy at Eggsquis.

First, the very last PFK restaurant in the Quebec region suddenly closed its doors last Sunday, without warning. Management has not even thought of notifying the workers, some of whom had just been transferred to this branch of boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel after the closure of other brand restaurants earlier this fall in the National Capital Region . The workers, supported by their union, now hope to receive all their sums due, they who lose their jobs in the middle of the holiday season.

Also in the area of ??fast food chains, we have learned in recent days the resignation of Tim Hortons world president, Alex Macedo. His departure will be official in March 2020. The resigning president oversaw the transition period experienced by the restaurant in 2018 and 2019. However, experts agree that the profits have not reached the objectives advertisement. Does this departure herald other changes in the Tim?

Finally, Eggsquis restaurants in Quebec are celebrating their 25th anniversary and want to give you a different experience thanks to your sense of smell. As soon as you set foot in your favorite breakfast restaurant, you will be greeted with a citrus or vanilla scent rather than the scent of coffee or eggs and bacon. The company Élixir Marketing Olfactif has indeed created a fragrance which is diffused in restaurants in order to create a positive emotion and leave you good memories. It must be said that smell is the most powerful sense, even if the expression says that we eat first with the eyes ...

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