DQ People

Posted by : BRS

To celebrate Canada Day on July 1, employees at the DQ® Canada corporate office came up with a huge idea—to build the nation’s largest cake. The massive soft-serve cake weighed in at 1,540 pounds and was made of 120 gallons of vanilla and chocolate soft serve, 264 pounds of chocolate crunch, 20 gallons of cold [...]

Posted by : BRS

It was around 6:30 on a typical spring Sunday evening in Edwardsville, Ill., when who should waltz into the local Dairy Queen® restaurant but late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien. According to DQ® employees who were working at the time, the variety show host was wearing a blue shirt, tie and suit jacket, and was with four [...]

Posted by : BRS

Everyone in the United States knows that the Dairy Queen® system has been around forever… or at least for about the last 70 years. But what many people might not know is that the Dairy Queen brand exists in other countries besides the United States and Canada—19 other foreign countries to be exact! There are [...]

Posted by : Carolyn K

Remember Halloween or Harvest Parties from your childhood? We do! And many of us here at International Dairy Queen, Inc. (IDQ) haven’t yet grown up.

Posted by : BRS

Amid the thousands (or so it seemed) decisions my husband and I had to make over the past year in planning our recent wedding, the cake was something I hadn’t thought too much about. I was too busy picking out a dress and booking the photographer, florist, reception site, etc. Sure, the cake is important, [...]

Posted by : BRS

With more than 5,600 Dairy Queen® locations in the world, there are bound to be some unique and interesting stories that go with them. For instance, there is a six-ton NASA space capsule sitting in front of a Franklin, Pa., DQ® restaurant; Bill Gates used a Kirkland, Wash., DQ restaurant for a mock business meeting [...]

Posted by : Jill Anderson

Six Blizzard Treats in Ten hours – the “Occupational Hazard” of having Miracle Treat Day in your job description! 
Yep, you read that right!  I ate six Blizzard Flavor Treats in ten hours – the delicious (and heartwarming and emotional and goose-bump creating) “occupational hazard” of having Miracle Treat Day as part of my job here at the DQ® corporate [...]

Posted by : JT

Each summer, the school-aged kids of DQ employees get to spend a day at the home office, building their own Blizzard treats, taste-testing new food products, learning about food safety, playing games and earning a “paycheck” in the form of a Dairy Queen gift card.

Posted by : Carolyn K

Summertime! Here in Minnesota that means days at the lake — volleyball, picnics, fishing, boating, splashing at the beach. Most folks go up Nort’ don’t you know. We headed south and west to Okoboji Iowa. Iowa? Okoboji? The Iowa Great Lakes region in Northwest Iowa is absolutely beautiful – and a little warmer than northern [...]

Posted by : PR Wonk

Growing up in a small, rural farming community on the southwest Minnesota prairie (not all that far from the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder), the summers were short and hot and the winters were long and cold.  As kids, we were usually bored out of our minds and there never seemed like there was anything [...]