Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen is an international chain of fast food restaurants started by John Fremont McCullough on June 22, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.[2]
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Restaurants |
| Founded | Joliet, Illinois, United States (June 22, 1940) |
| Headquarters | Edina, Minnesota, United States |
Key people | Warren Buffett John Gainor (CEO) Charles J. Chapman III (COO) James S. Simpson (CFO) Michael Keller (CBO) |
| Products | Soft serve Hamburgers Hot dogs Chicken |
| Revenue | 12px US$2.5 billion (2008)[1] |
Number of employees | 2,362 (2008) |
| Website | dairyqueen.com |
Dairy Queen's menu is mostly soft serve ice cream, hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken. One of Dairy Queen's most popular items is the Blizzard. It was first made in 1985.[3] It is a cup of soft-serve mixed with different ingredients. They come in many different flavors. Sometime the server will flip the blizzard upside down to show how thick the treat is.[4]
On August 17, 1987, Dairy Queen bought the drink chain Orange Julius.[5]
Operations
Dairy Queen is currently operated in:
- 22x20px Bahamas
- 22x20px Bahrain
- 22x20px Brunei
Cambodia
Canada- 22x20px Cayman Islands
- 22x20px China
- 22x20px Costa Rica
- 22x20px Egypt
- 22x20px Guatemala
- 22x20px Guyana
- 22x20px Indonesia
- 22x20px Kuwait
- 22x20px Laos
- 22x20px Mexico
- 22x20px Oman
- 22x20px Panama
- 22x20px Philippines
- 22x20px Qatar
- 22x20px Saudi Arabia
- 22x20px South Korea
- 22x20px Taiwan
- 22x20px Thailand
- 22x20px Trinidad and Tobago
- 22x20px United Arab Emirates
- 22x20px United States
- 22x20px Vietnam
Dairy Queen was previously operated in:
- 22x20px Austria (withdrew around 1999)
- 22x20px Cyprus
- 22x20px Dominican Republic (withdrew in the 2000s)
- 22x20px Gabon
- 22x20px Guam
- 22x20px Hungary (withdrew in the 1990s)
- 22x20px Italy
- 22x20px Japan (withdrew in 1999; expected to reenter)
- File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia (withdrew in the 2010s)
- 22x20px Morocco (withdrew in the 2000s)
- 22x20px Poland (withdrew in 2016)
- 22x20px Singapore (withdrew in May 2016)
- 22x20px Australia
- 22x20px Puerto Rico (withdrew in the 2000s, expected to reenter)
- 22x20px Slovenia (withdrew in 2000)
- 22x20px Turkey (withdrew in the 1990s)
- 22x20px Macau (withdrew in 2016)
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Dairy Queen Media
- DairyQueenMoorheadMN.jpg
DQ in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States, built in 1949
- Dairy Queen - May 2022 - Sarah Stierch 02.jpg
A Chicken Strip Basket from Dairy Queen with four chicken strips, french fries and Texas toast
- DairyQueenMarkham3.jpg
A DQ Grill & Chill in Canada
- Dairy Queen, Burnet, TX IMG 2000.JPG
A Dairy Queen outlet in Burnet, Texas, United States, using the chain's previous logo
- Dairy Queen Blizzard.jpg
A woman holding a Banana Cream Pie Blizzard
- Dairy Queen, Key West, FL.jpg
A Dairy Queen in Key West, Florida with the pre-2007 logo
An outlet in Ottawa, Ontario used the original retro-style neon sign with a vanilla ice cream-filled cone until 2013.
- Dairy Queen (Thompson Road, Indianapolis) - June 2022 - Sarah Stierch 01.jpg
Frozen cakes and desserts at a Dairy Queen in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, c. 2022
- DQ 1950s logo.png
Early prototype Dairy Queen logo from 1940 to 1960, still in use at a small number of locations
References
- ↑ Niemela, Jennifer (14 April 2009). "DQ's Q1 same-store sales up 5%". Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ↑ "General & History". Dairy Queen. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ↑ "About Us". Dairy Queen. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ↑ "Why Don't Dairy Queen's Blizzards Fall Out of the Cup?". Taste of Home. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ↑ "Dairy Queen Seals Orange Julius Deal". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
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