Events

Posted by : The Web Master

The Dairy Queen® Expo is a convention that American Dairy Queen Corporation holds for it’s franchise system every other year. This event is an opportunity for DQ® franchisees to meet and talk with corporate staff and vendors. It’s also an opportunity for them to learn more about our strategies for the current year. Here’s a highlight video [...]

Posted by : Carolyn K

DQ® Community Service Team makes meals to serve the hungry.

Posted by : Carolyn K

The Superbowl, Olympics Opening Ceremonies, and Valentine’s Day all these opportunities to have parties and that’s just the first half of the month!

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

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 : The Web Master

What exactly is the “Taste of DQ®”?
Well, every year we share our marketing and operations plans with 500-600 of our leading Dairy Queen® system store operators at our annual Leadership Summit. The highlight of every Leadership Summit is “Taste of DQ,” where the group gets to preview and taste the next year’s new products, like [...]

Posted by : The Web Master

We want to thank everyone who stopped at a Dairy Queen® location on Aug. 13 to purchase a Blizzard® Treat in support of Miracle Treat Day. This year was very different in that, for the first time, we used the social Web to help spread the word about Miracle Treat Day. So thank you to [...]

Posted by : The Web Master

Thursday,  Aug. 13, 2009 is Miracle Treat Day, and if you haven’t read any of our other posts regarding Miracle Treat Day, or haven’t been motivated to head out to a particpating Dairy Queen®  location yet, here’s a little more information for your regarding this amazing day.
Since 1984, the DQ® system has raised over $77 million [...]

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.