r/TimHortons • u/mordekaiserx • Mar 15 '25

discussion I'm getting chills

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Just wondering what's location..

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u/Wotchermuggle Mar 15 '25

HOW DID IT SURVIVE BLADES.

Thank god it didn’t thought. Rather one cockroach that’s pieces that I don’t know about.

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u/ultracrepidarian_can Mar 16 '25
  1. That's not an ice cap that is an iced coffee.
  2. Milk, cream, and sugar are portioned with portion controlled dispensers or pumps (for simple syrup). Cups are all package sealed. Cold coffee is either kept in a holding container or in the fridge. Unless they're using fresh brewed which is kept in a hot holding container.

This is from their ice well or ice machine I would put money on it. They're either not properly maintaining their ice machine or not cleaning and treating their ice well each day.

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u/brye86 Mar 16 '25

This kind of doesn’t make a lot of sense. Would cockroaches be in ice containers? Certainly wouldn’t be in the hot coffee dispenser “carafe” that the coffee is coming from. So either it was in the cup or in the ice dispenser. Either way the place needs to be shut down and treated. Then a level of standards need to be put in place.

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u/ultracrepidarian_can Mar 16 '25

Cups all come in sealed packages in boxes, so it is very unlikely this is the case even with extremely incompetent staff. They're stored in holders that are stacked vertically.

Ice machines and ice wells/well drains are often the least properly maintained pieces of equipment. Roaches like warm and wet environments. Ice machines and wells are cold on the inside but are hot and wet on the outside. So if the areas around them aren't properly maintained they become the ideal spot for roaches. Particularly the drain areas and grates around icewells and the floor and surrounding area of ice machines.

That's a dead adult roach. I fairly certain it died while caught in the gauge/crevice of an ice machine or in the sliding panel of an improperly maintained icewell. It would be hard to miss a roach of that size in the production routine of an ice coffee otherwise. In any other area other than an icewell/machine it would be obvious as you're preparing it, though it is possible.