Dining options throughout eastern Maine will get sweeter this fall when five Tim Hortons restaurants are slated to open, including a recently approved location on Broadway in Bangor.

Within the next few years, the Canadian-based coffee and doughnut shop that also offers soups and sandwiches will propose more sites in the Bangor area, according to a company official.

Tim Hortons is building a restaurant in Old Town and remodeling closed Wendy’s hamburger shops in Brewer, Newport and Skowhegan. Construction will soon begin on the Broadway shop in Bangor.

Under the corporate umbrella of Wendy’s International Inc. of Dublin, Ohio, Tim Hortons now operates 14 facilities statewide.

Greater Bangor’s central location offers the most convenience for customers from both southern and northern Maine, according to Diane Slopek-Weber, director of corporate communications for Tim Hortons. The eatery plans to base its Maine operations in the region.

“Bangor is the heart of the Maine market,” she said Wednesday. “We want to open as many stores in the area as possible. We’re looking for people who have a thing for doughnuts.”

Slopek-Weber didn’t know the targeted number of stores.

Based on his meetings with company representatives, however, Bangor code enforcement officer Dan Wellington said Tim Hortons sought to open seven shops overall in the area.

In Bangor, an old Texaco fuel station on Broadway was razed recently to make way for a 3,230-square-foot Tim Hortons that will feature a drive-thru and seating for about 50 people.

Old Town planners last week approved a 2,898-square-foot building on Stillwater Avenue where Carrie’s Market used to be located.

Contractors haven’t started remodeling the old Wendy’s restaurant in Brewer but the Tim Hortons is scheduled to open in September, Brewer code enforcement officer Dave Russell said Wednesday.

“I always knew Tim Hortons would open up here when Wendy’s moved in,” he said.

Russell didn’t know why Wendy’s closed.

The coffeehouse acquired its namesake from the late Tim Horton, a professional hockey player from Ontario, Canada, who played in the National Hockey League when the company was founded in 1964.