Dunnville Tim Hortons top in Smile Cookie sales for 6th year in a row

A Tim Hortons restaurant in Dunnville, Ont., has once again sold the most amount of Smile Cookies in Canada for the sixth year in a row.

Their team hand-decorated and sold almost 52,000 Smile Cookies, which is nearly nine cookies for every resident in the community that has a population of about 6,000 people.

Franchisees Ryan DiTommaso and Ashleigh MacLeod say the proceeds from the sales of Smile Cookies at their location are being donated to the Dunnville Hospital and Healthcare Foundation for a new computerized tomography (CT) scanner.

“The town really rallies around that. At some point, everybody is going to use the hospital and we just think that’s a great cause and a great place for the money to go,” DiTommaso said in an interview with CHCH News.

The Dunnville location raised $77,577 worth of Smile Cookies in total during the campaign that ran from May 1-7.

Nationwide, Tim Hortons says a record-breaking $19.7 million was raised through the sales of Smile Cookies this year, supporting over 600 charities and community groups.

Tim Hortons restaurant owners will be presenting their charity partners with Smile Cookie cheques over the coming weeks.

The first-ever Smile Cookie campaign in 1996 raised funds to support McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton. Since then, the annual initiative has collected more than $111 million for charities and community groups.

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