Posted AT 1:07 AM EDT on 12/05/08
The case for free
That was one expensive Timbit.
A manager's decision to fire a Tim Hortons employee in London, Ont., after she gave a free Timbit to a toddler last week erupted into a public relations nightmare for the iconic coffee company.
It didn't have to be that way.
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