Tim Hortons has launched a campaign to hire 10,000 workers this year.

The company says 4,000 of its 110,000 workers across Canada are temporary foreign workers, a number that it says has steadily declined since 2024.

That number represents 3.6 per cent of all its workers. The company says the use of temporary foreign workers was necessary during the pandemic to deal with “acute labour shortages” at the time.

Tim Hortons will see 80 new restaurants open up this year across Canada – including two in Newfoundland and Labrador. The hiring campaign is part of its “ongoing commitment to hire locally, whenever possible.”