Talk:Dairy Queen/Archive 1

The store name
The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or "DQ"

Just what exactly do the words Dairy Queen have to do with their soft serve product. What do the words "Dairy" and "Queen" have to do with soft serve "ice cream" It calls it's soft serve "Dairy Queen" instead of soft serve "ice cream?" I don't see the connection. 66.189.37.204 (talk) 06:29, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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Dairy King
I live in Malaysia and there's a store thats called "Dairy King" that sells - you guessed it, Ice Cream (Copyright infringement!) I couldn't find them on the internet, but what it be relevant to include them here under the competition area?

No,its not even worth adding that ONE store in Malaysia has a store named Dairy King. --74.240.227.203 (talk) 13:09, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Why does "Dairy King" redirect here? I know of several non-franchise stores named Dairy King (in Minnesota, Tennessee, Ohio, Nebraska and Connecticut, for example) and was looking for some information on similarly-named but not affiliated stores. I know the one here in Connecticut was grandfathered in and so the name is OK... is there any history on similarly named stores and whether or not they've had legal issues with the Dairy Queen franchise? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.86.173.34 (talk) 18:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

DQ v. TDQ
Does anyone know the why and when for the difference between corporate Dairy Queen and the Texas Dairy Queens?

Lizvas 19:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Bob Greene
Is the Bob Greene mentioned here really the same Bob Greene who was a columnist for the Chicago Tribune? If not, we need to disambiguate. Anthropos 07:17, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * They're the same; see the interview at for instance. Stan 14:34, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Competition
When one writes an article on a business how does one miss the company's largest competitors? Seriously, no where does this mention Culver's or Sonic as a competitor, they're foremost on IDQ's mind and the best this article has is Tastee Freez? And since when has Tastee Freez been relevant? If you want past competitors look at Baskin Robins. It's like writing up McDonald's but forgetting to mention Burger King! Also, there are alot of specialty shops like Cold Stone Creamery that are out there, perhaps mentioning them is a good idea since DQ is a sort of touch stone for the frozen treat "industry".

My town has a Dairy King and a Dari Dip. Actually, I'm surprised we don't have a DQ... PrometheusX303 01:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that paragraph was a bit confusing. We should either remove the 'competitors' that serve hard ice cream (rather than soft serve) or remove the blurb about other establishments serving soft serve. My first thought was 'wait a minute, baskin-robbins doesn't have soft serve...'

(Yes, they do. http://www.baskinrobbins.co.uk/soft_serve/) --68.231.109.191 (talk) 20:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Not to press a point to much but Sonic drive in has gotta be one of the most direct competitors to DQ I have ever seen. They sell the same fare as far as food goes and they have a copy of many dq treats. They are nearly identical to the Brazier DQ's aside from the lesser quallity. They directly compete with food items. When one comes out with something the other copies it to the "T". --MJHankel 20:57, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, where has the information about Dairy King come from? Because under trivia it mentions that at least two of them exist (where did that come from? I have one in my hometown of Bellefontaine, Ohio, which is not on that list), so should they be under competitors?AffirmationChick 19:44, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Dairy Kings are not a chain or coop or anything. They are simply independent stores with the same name. You can do a Yahoo (or Google) search and find out because they have different stories of the history. Now if this is trademark or copyright infringement then I do not know but they simply are not together.--211.220.23.39 (talk) 14:30, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Merge with Queen Latifah?!?!?
This is absurd to merge Dairy Queen with Queen Latifah. I will be reverting the edits made by User:Renegadewarrior in a couple of minutes, and then going over to Queen Latifah and rev'ing those, too. munboy 01:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Absurd, but very funny too! We need more vandals with a sense of humour. 82.110.248.146 (talk) 10:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

CAKES
Dairy Queen and their frozen cakes should be mention. They without bragging make the best frozen decorated cake in North America. Dairy Queen should advertise more about there cakes its a market that could double there sales.

Pure opinion. Dappled Sage 23:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree, though, I worked at one, and we sell more than you'd think. They are also made in store making it difficult to keep up with the demand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.228.180 (talk) 01:29, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Merge
It's been suggested that the articles on Brazier (burger) and Peanut Buster Parfait be moved here.
 * support Tocharianne 15:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * done Tim Shuba 23:50, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Headquarters is definitely in Edina
The corporation certainly thinks so, see here. The city of Edina thinks so as well - the location is in grid E8 of the official city map of Edina. (NOTE - size of linked pdf file is 5.4 MB) Tim Shuba 04:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Tim Shuba. Sorry I looked at the bottom of the pages on dairyqueen.com that all say "Mpls. MN". Your link is much better. Thank you! -Susanlesch 15:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Highest calorie count....
So, I work at a DQ and a couple of my co-workers and I were looking at the calorie chart, and if I remember correctly, the large Cookie Dough Blizzard doesn't have the highest calorie count. I'll double check, but I honestly don't think that it is. 204.234.218.85 19:47, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Stefany 5/8/07

No, the Georgia Mud Fudge does, and then the chocolate extreme. The lowest is the cherry cheesequake even though strawberries and cherries have the same nutrition facts... figure that one out!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.228.180 (talk) 01:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Brazier link is bad
The fourth paragraph under "History" contain a link to Brazier, but it only redirects to the main Dairy Queen article.Thomprod 18:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The "International" section
"Dairy Queen also has locations in Canada, Cyprus, Mexico, Bahamas, Panama, South America, Europe, Middle East, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, South Korea, Guam, Brunei, and Malaysia."

Anyone spot the odd ones out there? Yep - "South America" and "Europe". Oh, and surely "Middle East" includes Brunei? Can someone find some more precise locations? I'm pretty sure there are none here (the UK), at least. 86.132.138.168 03:07, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I also noticed something else odd under there..it has Alaska at the end. Isn't that odd, considering Alaska is a US state? If no one objects, I will edit it accordingly in 2 days. 207.14.79.71 02:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

There's no DQ in Hong Kong.

There is no Dairy Queen in Europe. See http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/international/europe/ for details. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flibblesan (talk • contribs) 15:45, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

There is no Dairy Queen in Korea. I know the website for Canada English says a current market in Korea but the American English website does not say South Korea. http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/international/asia/. Here is the mistaken Canadian English Dairy Queen website http://www.dairyqueen.com/ca-en/international/asia/. You will also see many mistakes on the Canadian English website when it comes to countries --211.220.23.39 (talk) 14:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

There is no Dairy Queen in the Republic of Ireland, yet the map indicates that there is. Can the 'red' be removed? (I don't know how too!). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.19.108 (talk) 12:09, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Their store locator says there are Dairy Queens in Ireland. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:30, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I genuinely cannot find any DQ locations in Ireland using that store locator. I admittedly find it rather complicated so may not be using it correctly. However, i have never come across or heard of a DQ in Ireland. I'd be very surprised if there were any stores, considering there are no other stores in Europe. I'll try to find an actual source to resolve the issue one way or the other. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.19.108 (talk) 17:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Post Shake-up management
If I'm not mistaken, John Gainor is now the CEO of Dairy Queen. Not Mooty.

Here's a source, dated May 2008:  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.183.39.245 (talk) 18:28, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Arctic Rush Comment...
The article speculates that the name change "unnecessairly confuses" long time customers... It sounds sorta biased and unsourced, imo... I sorta want to remove it... is there a link proving the statement? Because I didn't see one... Newbliss (talk) 19:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

DQ vs. DQ/Brazier
Under the stores section, I came across the supposed differences between a 'DQ' and a 'DQ Brazier.' In my towns (Wenatchee,_Washington / East_Wenatchee,_Washington), about the only difference is that the Brazier is flame-broiled.

Both are open year-round, though they both are separate franchises. Both seem to carry the exact same menu though (DQ treats + hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken).

Due to all of this, I'm a little curious as to whether the article has it all right, or if the DQs here are a curious oddity? Washii (talk) 06:20, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Thats wrong... i know owners of a DQ and a DQ brazier. The difference is that one serves food and the other serves ice cream only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.78.228.180 (talk) 01:33, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Advertising
Under the advertising it says- 2004 marked the restaurant's first full year of national advertising with award-winning television commercials. Where are the sources for these "award winning commercials"? I'm going to take that sentence out since its biased. --74.240.227.203 (talk) 12:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Soft serve is not Ice Cream
I changed several references from "ice cream" to "soft serve". DQ is very careful in their training videos to note that their product does not meet the USDA's definition of ice cream because of its low content of butter fat. The product is correctly called "soft serve". —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertGary1 (talk • contribs) 06:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I think you should put a note into the beginning of the article to reflect this fact - it's confusing for a layperson to read about "soft serve" when they don't know what it is, and probably think that DQ does sell ice-cream. 87.194.158.49 (talk) 12:32, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Agreed: what is "soft serve"? The mention of it (without explanation) at the beginning of the article is kind of presumptuous. Why is the word not linked to the wikipedia page on "soft serve" (if there is one)?.

When I worked at DQ in the late 60's as an employee, the soft serve product was marked as Ice Milk due to the lower butterfat content than Ice Cream. The soft serve product is made from "mix" which is fed into the soft serve machine for processing/dispensing finished product. Franchisees would get in trouble from DQ if they used higher butter fat mix as it would not be consistent with other stores. At the time, the suppliers of the DQ ice cream mix did offer different butter fat content product, so dependant on what store you bought your "treats" from, you may have been getting ice cream or ice milk. I think "soft serve" is a term better used to describe the machine, process and physical "soft" characteristics (largely related to processing temperature) of the presentation the dispensed frozen product. Therefore, it is entirely possible to purchase/consume "soft serve" ice cream, soft serve "ice milk" or "soft serve" yogurt dependant on the mix that was put into the machine. Sleepy350 (talk) 19:24, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Ingredients
Why is there no listing of ingredients in the Dairy Queen article. As far as I have been able to determine -- by examining all the Dairy Queen products I was able to check -- there is virtually no Dairy in Dairy Queen. I asked the FDA about this and received stony silence. Shouldn't an encyclopedic article about a food product include ingredient information? Happystrap (talk) 16:31, 30 March 2010 (UTC)


 * There is no listing of ingredients because it is not allowed per our policy What Wikipedia is not. In this case Wikipedia is not a menu. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:05, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

25th birthday of the Blizzard? I don't think so...
I remember that the DQ store I worked at in the late 1960's served Blizzards. That puts the age of the Blizzard to be at least 40 years old. I'm wondering why there is now (June 2010) a TV media ad campaign promoting the 25th Birthday of the Blizzard?Sleepy350 (talk) 19:25, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

CCM in restaurants...
Okay, I'm sure people out there have noticed that Dairy Queens (at least everyone I have visited) play Contemporary Christian Music in their restaurants. Does anyone out there know why? I have talked to a few people who worked there, and they all have told me the same thing, it's a Christian company. I'm not sure I agree with this, but can anyone out there verify, or somehow find any information as to why CCM is played in their restaurants??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.235.90.5 (talk) 03:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Dairy Queen is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Like all publicly traded corporations, they exist to make money. A company that sends a religious message (like Chic-fil-a does) is going to be privatly held like Chic-fil-a. Any publicly traded company doing that kind of stuff runs the risk of a lawsuit from their shareholders.
 * That said, since most of their locations are franchises, the owner of the store probably has a good deal of autonomy (real or effective) to play whatever they want. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:45, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Infobox
According to the infobox, there were 5,700 stores and 2,362 employees in 2008, so obviously something is wrong. Does anyone have correct numbers? --DangApricot (talk) 01:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, docstoc, which is usually pretty good, says 5,800 stores and 2,362 employees. The 5,800 is for Dairy Queen, Orange Julius and Karmelkorn stores (all part of the chain) the 2,362 is employees of IDQ, the company. It would seem that most of the stores, then, are not owned by the chain. If I were to open a Dairy Queen franchise, the pimple-faced people slinging "soft serve" there would be my employees, not Dairy Queen's. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:39, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Aw yes, a difference between corporate employees and franchise employees makes sense. Thanks!  --DangApricot (talk) 03:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Good Article
This is a really outstanding article. Good work.--208.127.100.230 (talk) 08:01, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Article issues
I just made several changes to the article to fix issues with manual of style and common name problems Also, I have detected several problems with over flowery language and adspeak that have crept their way in to the prose. If anyone else would like to, please help fix these issues as well. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 17:52, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

No Dairy Queens in Ireland
I can state categorically that there are no Dairy Queen stores in Ireland. Will someone please remove it from the international list? It's ridiculous to have it there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.53.108 (talk) 20:26, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

And if that's correct also not colour it red on the map2.24.54.221 (talk) 20:01, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

The map still shows Ireland coloured red, as if there were DQ stores there. There are none, and never have been. Can the red be removed please?Aerach (talk) 15:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

List of competitors
Is it really necessary for the fourth sentence in this article to be a list of competitors? I can't see how that contributes to this article, or why it needs to be at the top of the article. Pete Wall (talk) 02:32, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Blizzards in the 1970s
I'm going to put this here just to get it on the record. I can't find any printed source but I can say with dead certainty that something called a "Blizzard" was sold at the campus Dairy Queen in Champaign, Illinois, when I was an undergrad in late 1970s. Specifically, it was a "Chocolate Chip Banana Blizzard", which was commonly called a "C-squared-B-squared". I am sure there are hundreds of folks who remember this. I don't remember there being any other flavor of Blizzard but perhaps that was just our preference. I have no idea if the Green Street franchise invented the Blizzard, but perhaps someday someone will research its origin.

Before I saved this comment I found two similar recollections on the interwebs:

http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2010/04/dairy-queens-blizzard-turns-25-ice-cream.html#comments-94467

in 1980, which is 30 years ago, i used to eat what was called a C squared B squared (chocolate chip banana blizzard) at the dairy queen in champaign, illinois. this was the location that the blizzard originated from. i am confused at to WHY this is the 25th anniversary of the blizzard.

http://www.news-gazette.com/blogs/there-yet/2015-04/custards-last-stand.html

I was glad to see Julie mention the Dairy Queen at 3rd and Green, as well as the new (at that time) invention, the Blizzard. I remember living close to and frequenting that DQ as a student as well; my favorite then was the "C-squared, B-squared," i.e., the Chocolate Chip Banana Blizzard. You can find a pretty good approximation at Culver's if you order a concrete mixer with chocolate flakes and banana, FWIW.

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Puerto Rico's a COUNTRY now?
You listed Puerto Rico as a country that no longer has DQ. Well, yes, it doesn't have DQ any more, but last I checked(the diligent work of the Puerto Rican independence movement notwithstanding)it's still a commonwealth of the U.S. Just thought that should be pointed out.

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Guam and Macau are still on the list, I think they are not sovereign states. 87.93.103.248 (talk) 22:02, 21 May 2012 (UTC::)


 * Puerto Rico is not a "commonwealth of the US" that's just a snooty way states like Massachusetts refer to themselves. PR is a TERRITORY of the US. But you're still right over all, not a country.22:11, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

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Is Dean Peters the wrestler the same as Dean Peters the DQ PR guy?
It says...

In August, 2009, "One Million Moms", a project of the conservative Christian American Family Association announced on its website that Dairy Queen Director of Communications and Public Relations Dean Peters had contacted the project and said that Dairy Queen had removed its advertisement from the popular TV show The Secret Life of the American Teenager and would not advertise on the show again in the future.[37] One Million Moms also stated that Dairy Queen had added Secret Life to its "Do Not Air List" and its "Restricted List".[37] One of the concerns of One Million Moms was that "New character on the show is a gay, male high school freshman".[38]

... I clicked on the link for "Dean Peters" to figure out if he's a closetcase like all the other homophobes, but it took me to the page for some wrestler. This is a wild guess, but I don't think that they're the same Dean Peters.

Doubledragons (talk) 13:43, 23 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Why has this content disappeared? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:13, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Peanut Buster Parfait
The section on Products contains two seemingly conflicting statements for the origin of the Peanut Buster Parfait:

"In 1971, the Peanut Buster Parfait, consisting of peanuts, hot fudge, and vanilla soft serve, was introduced by Forrest 'Frosty' Chapman in his St. Peter, Minnesota Franchise."

and:

"Another sundae made by Dairy Queen is the peanut buster parfait thoroughly enjoyed and invented by Patsy Franks in 1969."

The first is, I believe, correct, although I don't have an authoritative source for this. The second is subjective and seems to be a personal entry of unknown veracity.

Timthom62 (talk) 03:15, 9 June 2022 (UTC)