# Country Style > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Country_Style > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Country_Style.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Style > Source revision: 1330340153 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian coffee shop chain This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Country Style" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) For other uses, see [Country Style (disambiguation)](/source/Country_Style_(disambiguation)). Country Style Food Services Inc. Country Style logo used since 2015 Trade name Country Style Type Wholly owned subsidiary Industry Coffee shop Genre Fast casual restaurant Founded 1963; 63 years ago (1963) Toronto, Ontario Founders Tony Wood Christine Wood Headquarters Richmond Hill, Ontario Number of locations 420 (December 31, 2021)[1] Areas served Ontario Western Canada Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Products Breakfast foods including Coffee. doughnuts, sandwiches and sweets Parent MTY Food Group (2001–present) Website https://countrystyle.com/ Country Style in Toronto Country Style in Richmond Hill **Country Style Food Services, Inc.**, formerly **Country Style Donuts**, is a fast/casual chain of coffee shops operating primarily in the Canadian province of [Ontario](/source/Ontario) which serves oatmeal, soup, sandwiches, salads, baked goods including donuts, and coffee. The chain is based in [Richmond Hill, Ontario](/source/Richmond_Hill%2C_Ontario). ## Organization In January 2006, there were 120 "traditional" locations in [Ontario](/source/Ontario). There are over 420 "non-traditional" locations embedded in other stores such as [gas stations](/source/Gas_stations), convenience stores, arenas and [movie theatres](/source/Movie_theatres). Over 70% of customer purchases in 2001 were coffee. In total, Country Style has over 1,000 locations in Ontario, [Western Canada](/source/Western_Canada), [Nova Scotia](/source/Nova_Scotia), [Prince Edward Island](/source/Prince_Edward_Island) and [New Brunswick](/source/New_Brunswick) under the Country Style/Bistro name. ## History Country Style has been in business since 1963 when it opened its first location in [Toronto](/source/Toronto). Country Style experienced a lot of growth early on, opening 100 stores in the first 15–20 years of existence. It had 50 outlets in 1974 when it was the leading coffee and donut establishment in Canada above [Tim Hortons](/source/Tim_Hortons) (which passed it two years later). It began to expand into [Western Canada](/source/Western_Canada) in the 1970s (including [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) and [Calgary](/source/Calgary)) and the East in the early 1980s. Poor results caused the franchise to withdraw from these regions: locations in [Alberta](/source/Alberta) were the only ones to survive into the 1990s, while in the East, it was ones in Nova Scotia and PEI.[2] By 2001, Country Style had been forced to close a quarter of its stores due to decreasing market share in an increasingly competitive Canadian market. Since then, it has opened many new stores and now ranks third behind Tim Hortons and McDonald's in the Canadian coffee market. On November 1, 2011, its parent company, [MTY Food Group](/source/MTY_Food_Group), bought [Mr. Sub](/source/Mr._Sub) for $23 million merging it with Country style to become Country Style Food Services Holdings Inc. In the mid-1990s, the Country Style logo was changed to use a font similar to [Palatino](/source/Palatino) instead of its former handwriting font. A Country Style location in [Milton, Ontario](/source/Milton%2C_Ontario), with mid-1990s branding In 2006, Country Style changed its image to a more upscale style: "Country Style Bistro Deli". The new image includes a new logo, a new website, and an enhanced branded [deli](/source/Delicatessen) menu that will be phased into all stores. The logo still uses the Palatino style font and will also be phased into all stores. New stores will feature more modern design features, somewhat similar to [Starbucks](/source/Starbucks), and provides wide range of wraps, smoothies, breakfast, salads and sweets. In 2009, the brand rights to Country Style, used at 900 locations, were purchased by MTY Food Group of Montreal for $14.6 million in cash and debt.[3] In 2017, the stores in the Philippine franchise were rebranded to "New Bistro Deli". ## Charity work In April 2003, Country Style partnered with the [Make a Wish Foundation](/source/Make_a_Wish_Foundation) as its corporate charity of choice.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## See also - [Coffee portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Coffee) - [Companies portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Companies) - [Ontario portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Ontario) - [List of coffeehouse chains](/source/List_of_coffeehouse_chains) - [List of fast-food chains in Canada](/source/List_of_fast-food_chains_in_Canada) ## References Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Country Style](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Country_Style). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-cs_1-0)** [Food court king buys Country Style](https://www.thestar.com/article/617883) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Penfold, Steven (2008). [*The Donut: A Canadian History*](https://archive.org/details/donutcanadianhis0000penf). University of Toronto Press. p. [134](https://archive.org/details/donutcanadianhis0000penf/page/134). Retrieved August 1, 2019. country style donuts +president. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Montreal's MTY buys Country Style doughnut chain"](https://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1492403). *The [Financial Post](/source/Financial_Post)*. [Postmedia](/source/Postmedia). April 13, 2009. 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