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Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario by NHL hockey player Tim Horton, who opened the original donut and coffee shop during his professional hockey career before his death in a 1974 car accident, after which the company continued operating and expanding under his name. The chain grew into one of the largest and most culturally significant coffee and donut chains in Canada, becoming such a deeply embedded part of Canadian everyday culture that Tim Hortons is frequently described as a genuine national institution rather than simply a commercial coffee chain. Tim Hortons merged with Burger King in 2014 to form the parent company Restaurant Brands International, and the chain has continued expanding into the United States and internationally while remaining most strongly associated with its Canadian origins and cultural identity. Tim Hortons's combination of its founding by a professional NHL hockey player and its status as a genuine cultural institution in Canada has made it one of the most nationally significant coffee chains in North America.
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Starbucks
Starbucks was founded in 1971 in Seattle by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, originally selling whole-bean coffee rather than prepared drinks, before Howard Schultz joined the company in 1982 and later purchased it, transforming Starbucks into the espresso-bar coffeehouse chain it's known as today. Schultz has said his vision for Starbucks was directly inspired by Italian espresso bar culture he encountered on a trip to Milan, and he built the company's identity around creating a comfortable "third place" between home and work where customers could linger over coffee. Starbucks grew into the largest coffeehouse chain in the world by store count, operating tens of thousands of locations globally, and the company pioneered numerous now-standard coffeehouse conventions, including its size naming system and mobile ordering technology that many competitors later adopted. Starbucks's combination of its founder's Italian espresso bar-inspired "third place" concept and its growth into the largest coffeehouse chain in the world has made it one of the most globally influential coffee companies in history.
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