Tim Hortons launches grocery iced coffee for at-home summer drinks

Tim Hortons is making a direct play for the at-home iced coffee ritual, rolling out ready-to-drink iced coffee and new iced coffee syrups into grocery stores as summer drinkers look for faster ways to make café-style drinks at home. The launch landed on May 14, with the bottled iced coffee already in Walmart stores nationwide and at Metro stores in Quebec, while the syrups reached shelves at Fortinos, Save-On-Foods, No Frills, Maxi, Sobeys, Metro stores in Quebec, and TimShop.ca.

The bottled iced coffee is built around 100 percent Arabica beans and comes in three unsweetened flavors: Medium Roast Black, Vanilla and Caramel. The syrup line is more of a DIY shortcut, with Cappuccino and Mocha designed to be mixed with milk or blended with ice for a richer home drink. Tim Hortons framed both products around the summer routines that happen away from the restaurant, including long weekends, cottage trips and camping, where convenience usually wins.

That positioning turns a standard grocery release into a broader bet on how Canadians want to drink coffee when the weather warms up. Instead of asking customers to choose only between a café run and plain brewed coffee at home, Tim Hortons is offering two routes into the same habit, one fully prepared and one customizable. The RTD bottle gives speed and consistency. The syrups give shoppers more control over sweetness and texture, which may matter to households that want the brand name without the full café stop.

The move also fits a larger retail strategy already built into Tim Hortons’ business. Restaurant Brands International says Tim Hortons has more than 6,000 systemwide restaurants worldwide, and that it roasts most of the coffee for its restaurants globally in two coffee-roasting facilities while blending beans for its take-home packaged coffee. In other words, this is not a one-off grocery experiment. It is part of a packaged-coffee platform that already supports the chain’s restaurant business.

The timing is notable, too. Tim Hortons was founded in Canada in 1964, and RBI has said the brand continues to reach deep into the market it was built on. Q4 2025 Canadian same-store sales rose 2.8 percent year over year, a sign that beverage traffic remains important even as the chain expands how its coffee shows up outside the café. With bottles in the cooler and syrups on the shelf, Tim Hortons is trying to own both sides of the iced coffee habit, from the drive-thru to the grocery cart.