Roll Up the Rim to Suckiness

[Dasota]

So I work at a Tim Horton's and we've started our yearly contest. For those of you who don't know, when you buy a cup of coffee and after you finish it, you can roll up the rim of your cup to see if you've won anything.

Color tabs

We change the color of our tabs every year. two years ago, it was yellow, last year was pink, this year is grey. If you bring in any of the tabs of a different color, I can't redeem them, I'm sorry, they aren't valid... also... ew!

Grossness of the contest

People are drinking out of their coffee cups and are usually using their teeth to roll up their rims, it's gross and disgusting, and in my mind a major violation of health. I've taken to bringing Purrell with me to work to sanitize my hands every time people redeem their tabs.

Cops

Cops get free coffee, but we have to make them in non contest cups. So after telling them for 3 nights that we would love it for them to tell us at the speaker that they're cops so we can make them in the brown cups.

Brown cups

We have 4 sizes of cups, but we don't have any medium non contest brown cups for whatever reason. It'd be nice if we did since the cops like to order medium coffees alot, and also for the people that ask us to double cup their large coffees with a medium cup, and he have to use the brown cups so that they don't get two contest cups.

Small cups

These are not included this year! I'm sorry. I didn't make the rules. If you're so crazy for a roll up the rim cup, order a medium. It's not that much more, or that much more coffee.


Rable Rable.. We just started on Monday.... it goes until May. I also work overnights, meaning less people, and thankfully less of the fanatics, but good lord the people we do get that are all rabid for their contest cups make me want to scream.

[ladydrow]

I Feel your pain. I worked at a Timmies for two years.
There were people who brought in fakes just so claim the big prizes. In a small town that's not likely to happen.
Or they hand you the cup they just finished and expect you to rip it off and put it in your till with all that money and then complain when you say for health and safety regulations you're not allowed to do that. They did this at front and drive thru a lot.
Cops were actually pretty good about it at mine though.

[CiggyStoreClerk]

I didn't even realize using your teeth to roll up the rim was gross, sorry

Next time, I'll remember to use my hands

[Kiwi]

I just got my first coffee today with this roll up the rim thing!

I used my fingers though, yuck why would someone use their teeth!! although I didnt win anything....

[DeltaSierra]

I didn't even realize using your teeth to roll up the rim was gross, sorry

Next time, I'll remember to use my hands

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I love Tim's coffee, and was pleasantly surprised when I went through the drive-thru yesterday to get my usual decaf refill and was given a free cup to roll up in addition to my coffee since I have a reusable cup! What a nice thing to do.

[CiggyStoreClerk]

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Omg, I'm such a dork, I'm actually ordering that

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Man I'm miss Tim Horton's, it's one of the first places I'm going to hit when I go back to Canada again.

[Muses_nightmare]

Small cups

These are not included this year! I'm sorry. I didn't make the rules. If you're so crazy for a roll up the rim cup, order a medium. It's not that much more, or that much more coffee.

I don't remember small cups being included most years, I could be wrong though. I usually get mediums anyway. :P The Timmies near me has signs stating which cups have roll up the rim, though, that's assuming customers actually read signage. :P

[Buglady]

Augh! I had a Timmie's coffee this morning and I didn't even notice it was a contest cup!

Jeez, with my luck I bet I just threw away $10,000...

[Horsetuna]

I used to use my teeth, because for some reason no matter how hard I try, I CANNOT roll the rim up with my fingers. I seriously can't!

I'll find some alternative.

[trunks2k]

Is this rim unrolling contest some crazy non-USA thing? That Dragon's Den thing seems to indicate such contests are fairly common. I've never heard of a contest like that.

There's not any Tim Horton's around here either.

[hinakiba777]

I love how disappointed people get when they lose. All year you are happy with your Timmy's Brew, but the second there is a chance to win a doughnut too, you get upset.

hehe Rhyme

When I was younger a man left his timmy's cup on the table. So another guy walks over and rolls the rim. He won a STEREO! I wish I was brave enough to touch someone's trash, but I'm not. Too bad, I could have had a stereo

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

There's a great Canadian blonde joke about Roll Up the Rim.

Bascially its about a blonde who thinks she won a recreational vehicle in the contest even though it's not one of the offered prizes. The reason? Her cup reads:

WIN A BAGEL (winnebago)

[Cookiesaur]

God I miss Tim Horton's. I never won anything there, but man, was that good coffee.

Everytime my husband offers to take me to a Dunkin Donuts I just sort of sigh, scuff the dirt with my toe, and murmur something sullenly about how it's "not the same".

GIVE ME BACK MY ICED CAPPUCINOS. WAAAAAAAAAH!

[wagegoth]

When I was younger a man left his timmy's cup on the table. So another guy walks over and rolls the rim. He won a STEREO! I wish I was brave enough to touch someone's trash, but I'm not. Too bad, I could have had a stereo

There was a garbage collector in Boston, I think, who won big with a Wendy's contest. One day he picked up a cup that had not had the prize label peeled off and won a burger. He's happy with his free lunch. A week or so later, he found another cup with the label still attached so he peeled it, hoping for another free lunch. Instead, he won the big prize: $250,000. I wonder if the guy who threw the cup away ever figured out what an idiot he was for not taking 30 seconds to check the prize.