

There are 5,700 operating Dairy Queen units. The initial franchise fee is $45,000, while the total investment amount required ranges from $1.1 million to $1.8 million. The liquid capital required to invest in a Dairy Queen franchise is $400,000, and the minimum net worth is $750,000. This location was converted into a Grill & Chill store around late 2016–2017. One such example was a former Dairy Queen Brazier location in Woodinville, Washington, where the slogan was printed near the tops of the windows.
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In some locations built in the 1990s, the "Hot Eats, Cool Treats" slogan can be seen printed on windows or near the roof of the building.
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Dairy Queen Full Brazier restaurants serve a normal fast-food menu featuring burgers, french fries, and grilled and crispy chicken in addition to frozen treats and hot dogs. So-called "Limited Brazier" locations may additionally offer hot dogs, barbecue beef (or pork) sandwiches, and in some cases french fries and chicken, but not hamburgers. While some stores serve a very abbreviated menu primarily featuring DQ frozen treats and may be open only during spring and summer, the majority of DQ restaurants also serve hot food and are open all year. Standard stores Ī Chicken Strip Basket at Dairy Queen with four chicken strips, french fries, and Texas toast. The largest in the world is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the busiest in the world is in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The largest Dairy Queen in the US is in Bloomington, Illinois. "Brazier" locations, with expanded food menus and second floors for storage, are recognizable by their red mansard roofs.īy the end of 2014, Dairy Queen had more than 6,400 stores in 27 countries, including more than 1,400 outside the United States and Canada. The company's stores are operated under several brands, all bearing the Dairy Queen logo and carrying the company's signature soft-serve ice cream.

They have often been reflected in stories and memoirs of small-town America, as in Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry, Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman, and Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights by Bob Greene.

ĭairy Queens were a fixture of social life in small towns of the Midwestern and Southern United States during the 1950s and 1960s. IDQ was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998. In 1987, IDQ bought the Orange Julius chain. Corp." in the chain's legal disclaimers), Dairy Queen Canada Inc., and other entities that franchise the Dairy Queen concept. IDQ is the parent company of American Dairy Queen Corporation (which owns the DQ intellectual property, and is often abbreviated "Am. The company became International Dairy Queen, Inc. The red Dairy Queen symbol was introduced in 1958. Īt the end of fiscal year 2014, Dairy Queen reported over 6,400 stores in more than 25 countries about 4,500 of them (approximately 70%) were in the United States. In the United States, it operates as American Dairy Queen Corporation (commonly known as Am. (IDQ) is the parent company of Dairy Queen. On October 30, 2017, Vasari LLC filed for bankruptcy and announced it was closing 29 DQ stores, including ten in the Texas Panhandle. When stores were not profitable, the firm closed them. Vasari, LLC became the second-largest Dairy Queen operator in the country and operated 70 Dairy Queens across Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. In the 1990s, investors bought Dairy Queen stores that were individually owned, intending to increase profitability through economies of scale. Using the 2010 census, the state with the most Dairy Queen restaurants per person is Minnesota. In the US, the state with the most Dairy Queen restaurants is Texas. The first store in Canada opened in Melville, Saskatchewan in 1953. Since 1940, the chain has used a franchise system to expand its operations globally. It closed in the 1950s, but the building at 501 N Chicago Street is a city-designated landmark. Noble and the McCulloughs went on to open the first Dairy Queen store in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. On the first day of sales, Noble sold more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours. They convinced friend and loyal customer Sherb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois.

The soft-serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont "J.F." "Grandpa" McCullough and his son Alex.
