Chris Nuttal-Smith Globe and Mail November 8, 2011 Picture: Courtesy of Kevin Van Passen/The Globe and Mail Call it the revenge of the burger titans. For most of Canada’s history as a nation of drip coffee drinkers, only the desperate bought their daily cup at a fast food hamburger joint – we’ve tended to go to doughnut shops or specialty coffee chains for our fix. McDonald’s struck back in 2009 with the introduction of its McCafé brand – which it’s now rolling out across Canada. The company also revamped its drip coffee blend; it expects to serve 200 million cups of it this year, and its share of the country’s $3-billion quick-service (counter-service and drive-through) coffee market is growing. Where as recently as 2007 McDonald’s accounted for just 3 or 4 per cent of all quick service coffees sold in Canada, today it claims nearly 11 per cent, said Kenric Tyghe, an analyst with Raymond James Ltd. who follows the coffee world. And that’s just the brewed stuff – ...