The current Dairy Queen logo (top); a modern Dairy Queen restaurant in Hiawassee, Georgia, United States (bottom)
Trade name
Dairy Queen
Company type
Private[1]
Industry
Restaurant
Genre
Fast food restaurant, ice cream parlor[2]
Founded
June 22, 1940; 83 years ago (1940-06-22) in Joliet, Illinois, US
Founders
John Fremont McCullough Alex McCullough Sherb Noble
Headquarters
Bloomington, Minnesota
,
US
Number of locations
4,455[3] (US domestic, 2018)
6,800[4] (global)
Area served
United States, Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Guyana, Indonesia, Kuwait, Laos, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam
Key people
Troy Bader (President and CEO)
Products
Soft serve, ice cream, milkshakes, cakes, sundaes, hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, chicken strips, french fries, cheese curds, onion rings, soft drinks, salads (in Texas: tacos, taco salads, nachos)
Revenue
US$3.64 billion (US, 2017)[3]
Parent
Berkshire Hathaway
Subsidiaries
Orange Julius
Website
www.dairyqueen.com
International Dairy Queen, Inc. (DQ) is an American multinational fast food chain founded in 1940 and currently headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.[5][6] The first Dairy Queen was owned and operated by Sherb Noble and first opened on June 22, 1940, in Joliet, Illinois.[7][8][9] It serves a variety of hot and fried food, as well as original frozen dairy products that vary from location to location.[10]
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^"This Week In Illinois History: World's First Dairy Queen (June 22, 1940)". Northern Public Radio: WNIJ and WNIU. June 21, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
^DairyQueen.com page: "History of Dairy Queen, IDQ Archived June 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine."
International DairyQueen, Inc. (DQ) is an American multinational fast food chain founded in 1940 and currently headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota...
into Dairy Queens. DairyQueen added Orange Julius to its product line at its stores. Today, Orange Julius is a menu item available at DairyQueen stores...
November and December. DairyQueen, based in Edina, Minnesota, franchises approximately 6,000 stores operating under the names DairyQueen, Orange Julius, and...
2016. Gibson, Richard (October 27, 1997). "Berkshire Hathaway to Buy DairyQueen for $585 Million". WSJ. Archived from the original on June 29, 2018....
promoter and pimp. In 1977, he met Dorothy Stratten at a Vancouver-area DairyQueen, where she was working part-time while still attending high school. In...
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He attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California. He worked at a DairyQueen with his sister Gwen and John Spence. He studied animation at the California...
43 states. In 1986, DairyQueen's parent company IDQ (now part of Berkshire Hathaway) purchased Karmelkorn Shoppes, Inc. DairyQueen began co-branding Karmelkorn...
formula as well as patented super low temperature ice cream machines. DairyQueen also claims to have invented soft serve. In 1938, near Moline, Illinois...
standoff, but the group proves far craftier than anyone expected. 29 6 "DairyQueen" Mel Damski Michael Sardo & David E. Kelley November 26, 1993 (1993-11-26)...
was also used for frying at Burger King, Wendy's, Hardee's, Arby's, DairyQueen, Popeyes, and Bob's Big Boy. Tallow is, however, making a comeback in...
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