It's a stretch, but not a big stretch. Almost all Canadians have likely experienced Tim's where all/most workers are of a single ethnicity. Pretty much all small businesses prefer to hire people referred or recommended by people they trust. If the owner of the local Tim's franchise is Punjabi, it's quite likely most of the people they trust are also Punjabi, and most of the people they get recommendations for are Punjabi. Almost all of the networking they do is through the temple.
Rejected for not speaking Punjabi? Not likely. Rejected for not having a recommendation from one of the franchise owner's network, all of whom happen to be Punjabi? Quite likely. The difference between one and the other might be subtle.
ok, lets riff on the timmys pujabi coffee slinging
thing, first up is that it is not an easy job to make money at, the pace can be brutal, the customers ARE brutal, I have seen people get slugged in.the head for ordering a doughnut in the coffe only line, twise.keeping staff and filling shifts is just going to be a 24 hour a day 365 days a year, never get clear of it all consuming job, and saying that you cant make a shift, makes someone, no one.
all that said, the "middle" or "soft" shifts are much smaller and have a lot more "white" k8ds to help the mostly senior customers who go to meet there friends
as to not getting a minimum pay job in Canada right now, you must be jokeing, the add boards are constantly full, quite litteraly sit on the curb AT timmys, and someone will hire you, and DRIVE you to work and pay you cash
many fucks not given for people complaining about getting a job
Rejected for not speaking Punjabi? Not likely. Rejected for not having a recommendation from one of the franchise owner's network, all of whom happen to be Punjabi? Quite likely. The difference between one and the other might be subtle.