A story I can really sink my teeth into!
Dairy Queen will always have a special place in my heart. When I was a kid, ours was the same way - on Main Street, USA, no indoor seating, closed in winter, no drive-thru and people lined up around the block all summer long.
Drinking a, ‘Mr. Misty Kiss’ (like a Slushy) too fast gave me quite a few headaches throughout my youth. :)
They did away with butterscotch for malts. Then they did away with cherry. I’m not going back to DQ. The new simplified menu sucks. JMHO.
I worked at the DQ in our town for about 3 hours.
They wanted me to weigh the cones to be certain I wasn’t giving the customers too much ice cream. Even as a teenager, I knew that wasn’t the kind of company I wanted to work for.
Dairy Queen is a subsidy of Berkshire Hathaway(A$$HOLE Tax Dodger Warren Buffet).
Corporate uniformity always touts that it is cheaper, has less wastage, and that customers prefer uniformity over local variations.
While they have some arguments with this, the flip side is also true. Uniformity also means a loss of quality, an inability to exploit local bargains, a very dedicated clientele, and lower customer satisfaction.
Some years ago an interesting paradox happened in city planning. Cities wanted to have family friendly business districts with locally owned stores and a more leisurely pace. The problem is that this is exactly where national retail franchise chains want to be as well.
That is, the corporate chains crave to be surrounded by small, locally owned businesses, not other corporate chains. But *all* the corporate chains want this. And are willing to fight in court to not be excluded, and they have very deep pockets.
And once there is an opening, the corporate chains fight to take over the space of the small, locally owned businesses, pushing them out, and end up turning what had been a pleasant place into just another decaying, dirty corporate chain clog, full of unhappy minimum wage employees, and with an emphasis on “buy then get out, rush, rush, rush!”
Which is exactly the opposite of what was wanted.
I like their Brazier Burgers and their foot-long chili dogs.
But I agree with the poster who said something about Butterscotch, I love a Butterscotch Shake or Malt.
All of the old roadside drive-ins were great and some still exist.
DQ ice cream has a great taste about it, I don’t know what it is that makes it different.
I have been to this DQ and was amazed to find items I hadn’t seen since I was a kid. The whiz kids at DQ headquarters should take notice and instead of quashing this kind of innovation and catering to local tastes allow franchisees some leeway to better fit the local market. Even Chairman Mao said he didn’t care whether the cat was white or black as long as it caught mice.
This could just be a vicious rumor but when I was a kid, I heard that Dairy Queen got pregnant when Burger King forgot to wrap his Whopper.
We have a DQ in South Bend that has been aound since the 50s.
No inside seating... hot dogs, cones, slushies and sundays, that’s it. Boy owns it now, little Gold mine.
We have one of these right here in our fair city. Small parking area, line up outside at the one window, one person works the grill while one other handles the cash and the ice cream. Only open in the summer.
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