Catering to the Customers
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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 he was filming for a documentary; and last winter a couple tied the knot at a Bethlehem, Pa., DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant.
But in Nappanee, Ind., there is one Dairy Queen location that boasts something unique to the DQ system—a 100-foot-long hitching post for Amish buggies. After a tornado ripped through the small town in 2007 and destroyed the local DQ restaurant, the owners bought property in a better location and built a new DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant.
Along with the new space came room for more seating inside and outside, and a bigger parking lot. To accommodate the large Amish population in the area, the owners decided to build the hitching post that can hold up to 10 Amish buggies. It even comes with a separate driveway.
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I’m so very happy that this was done & hope that all store/restaurants around an Amish community would do this also to accommodate there buggies. I have several friends who are Amish & they love to go out into there community to go grab a coke, lunch, ice cream cone or what ever, but due to having a horse & buggie it’s hard to find places to park. I would like to applaud DQ for there understanding & making parking for there Amish buggies.
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Thank you very much for that wonderful article
so great, thanks for sharing!