Canadian Coffee In Kandahar Costly

"Only the Canadian Government could loose money opening a Tim Hortons"

The Harpoville Post reports that the Canadian Military's attempt to bring a little bit of home to the fighting troops in Afghanistan is costing Canadian tax payers more than they could even imagine. The two coffee and donut dispensing trailers have been open for just six months and have so far cost Canadians 4 Million dollars making it the only Tim Hortons outlet in the world to be loosing money.

The Harpoville Post has learned that the Coffee and Donut giant waved the $475,000 franchise fee but sure stuck it to them for everything else. It seems Tim's sold the eager coffee consuming military two coffee shilling trailers for $380,000 and then military spent $425,000 flying them first class, via two Russian cargo planes, to Kandahar. The engineers who backed the trailers into place and plugged them into an electrical outlet weren't without their mits out and raked in $350,000 for they're day in the sun.(Doesn't the Canadian Military have their own engineers?). Then when it came time to order Tim Horton paper bags, Timbits boxes and cups that cost $1.4 Million. Then add on the cost of keeping the place open the first year $550,000. Then there are salaries of $650,000 a year (Because minimum wage in Kandahar is much higher than Canada's $7.25 and hour) then add another $30,000 for training (I seems repeating the phrase "Will that be everything" needs to be practice endlessly to get right).

The Harpoville Post reports that the Kandahar outlet serves about 1000 coffees a day and usually runs out of donuts and muffins on a regular basis making the daily take at Tim's Kandahar in the ball park of about $2,500 US per day, it seems the Canadian military had concluded Canadian currency is worthless in Kandahar that's why the US currency. So, $2500. US per day times, the six monthes it's been open say 150 days makes it about $400,000 US the military have taken in and have decided to keep in a bank account and let the Canadian tax payer pay for the rest. When asked what will happen to all the profits from Tim's Kandahar a military spokesperson replied; "We're planning to use this money to set up a 'sent a kid to camp' program. That is send a kid to 'military camp' program."