A new Tim Hortons is planned for Fairburn. The new doughnut and coffee shop is coming to 7940 Senoia Road where it will replace a former Hardees that closed last year as part of the struggles and eventual bankruptcy of franchisee Summit Restaurant Holdings, LLC. Planning documents suggest that Tim Hortons will make use of the existing 2,586 square foot building and renovate it to suit its needs.
In addition to the Fairburn location, other locations are reportedly in the works at Tara Boulevard and Edgemoor Avenue in Jonesboro, Highway 34 and Posey Road in Newnan, and along Peachtree Parkway in Suwanee, among others. Another former Hardees on Atlanta Highway in Loganville is reopening as a new Caribou Coffee, while many others around Georgia are still available and being marketed for lease.
ToNeTo Atlanta readers have shown tremendous excitement for several concepts entering or expanding in metro Atlanta including Raising Cane's, Whataburger, Dutch Bros, Caribou Coffee, Shipley Do-Nuts, and Tim Hortons, among others. Many have lamented the lack of availability of any of the concepts in "metro Atlanta," an area that, despite being universally understood to mean ITP or inside the perimeter of I-285, seems to be defined differently depending on who you ask.
Tim Hortons has thus far been the new concept to open furthest inside the perimeter with a location that debuted December 31 on Spring Street, just off I-85 in Midtown.
Long a favorite in Canada and by Canadian-born pop star Justin Bieber, Tim Hortons is now looking to replicate its home market success in the U.S.
According to an article earlier this month in industry magazine QSR, "Tim Hortons said in the past 80 percent of Canadians visit the brand every month. That’s the same percentage of Americans who go to McDonald’s—each year."
Tim Hortons has said that through its franchise partners it plans to have as many as 30 locations open in Georgia by 2027.
The Fairburn location should open later this fall.
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