Isn’t it supposed to be ice creams and milkshakes and stuff?
Define “food.”
Here’s the fun part: while you’re all talking about their ice cream, technically it’s not legal to call their product that. You won’t see it anywhere on the menu. I think it has to do with the milk/cream/egg/sugar amounts? There may not be egg at all, but can’t remember for sure.
Anyway, all you’ll ever see on the menu is “soft serve”
Ice cream has to be at least 10% butterfat and 20% milk solids according to the FDA.
DQ soft serve is 5% butterfat so would not legally qualify as ice cream, though it would qualify as low fat ice cream.
I do believe that most soft serve is a similar fat percentage, and also has much more air per volume than traditional ice cream.
Also, I must say as an ice cream aficionado, I do love me some soft serve and I would never disparage it by calling it “not real ice cream.”
Oh, for sure. Especially during pumpkin pie blizzard season. Plus they always seem to feed my FOMO with some other flavor so I go twice during that season alone
If you have n icecream shops in highly sought after retail locations where people are buying food, it would be kinda crazy not to sell food.
Once upon a time there were two types of Dairy Queens. Some were just ice cream, but the ones called “Dairy Queen Braizer” sold hot food too. Eventually they all sold hot food.
Thanks for the actual answer!
I mean, it’s not an actual answer. It’s just a historic fact.
The actual answer is that diversifying your product offerings gets you more business. People like desserts after eating a meal, so it makes sense to also sell that meal.
Historic facts can be an answer.
But it’s not the answer to your question. The answer to your question is business/financially related.
Not necessarily. It could be “Why does Dairy Queen sell food (unsaid part: when I expect it to only sell ice cream?”)
A: because it used to only sell ice cream in the past.
That’s not an answer to why, though. Only selling something in the past doesn’t explain why they do it now. Making more money is the real explanation.
Why can just mean explain something that is unexpected. Which you did with the history lesson. It doesn’t have to answer causality.
DQ has surprisingly good chili dogs. Their burgers aren’t bad, if you omit the ketchup.
So you can get dinner and dessert at the same place.
This makes a lot of sense actually.
They’ve got to do something with the cows once they’re too old to milk.
That makes too much sense :/
And they need to do something with calves. Cows only produce milk after giving birth, and dairy producers are not going to keep a freeloader around. /s
That’s the veal industry
Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is
This is insane to me, for some reason I thought they were an ice cream store.
Well only because the machine is always broken at McDonald’s.
Also ymmv because my local McDonald’s always has a functioning ice cream machine!
One other thing I haven’t seen mentioned is selling ice cream is only a sustainable business for a few months out of the year in many places. Whereas you can sell burgers/dogs/etc year-round. But yeah, as far as I know they’ve always sold fast food - their burgers were a fave of mine when I was a kid in the 70s.
Wow that’s neat. There’s a Dairy Queen sort of near me, I’ve driven past it a million times, but I thought they only sold ice cream so I’ve never gone in.
Hot eats cool treats. That was the slogan 20 years ago. Get some nuggets and a blizzard.
Same reason you can get ice cream from other fast food places.
At least the other fast food places don’t have names like “Ben &Jerry” or “Baskin Robbins”
Burger King sells stuff that isn’t burgers, taco bell sells more than tacos.
They aren’t ice cream stores though…
Is ice cream not food?
As a solid? Yes.
As a liquid? Maybe.
As a gas? No.
As a gas?
Well now I want to see the next evolution of Dippin Dots: Air-Scream.
Coming to a vape near you
Can someone from England ask her?
Ask who?
The Queen of Dairy I presume
Maybe she lives in Jersey with the cows there?
Dude, their burgers are awesome. It’s one of the few, if only fast food joints that still cook burgers on an actual flat top.
I just wish they hadn’t switched to the soggy as fuck steak cut fries.
Which fast food places are not using a flat top for burgers? Just Burger King?
How long have they been a fast food store? I thought they were an ice cream shop
Decades and decades ago. Not remotely new. Your question was outdated 25 years ago.
This is a Berenstain Bears moment for me…
lol
They first started selling hamburgers in 1958.
The wiki has all the info you need.
Like 30 years at least. They’re famous for their ice cream, but their burgers are great too.
There’s also the fact that DQs outside of Texas are slightly different than other states. Or at least that was true 15 years ago in Louisiana.
Wow
Yeah, I definitely remember eating DQ burgers in the 90s.
But like I said, it’s definitely possible that if you’ve only seen DQs outside of Texas, your experience might be different.
Salty and sweet, man! Clearly you’ve never dipped fries into a milkshake. Your lack of life experience is concerning.
Maybe they’re English. Nobody there thinks that they should dip their chippies in a frozen creamydoodle.
Because no one should do that. It seems super gross (and I’m American)
I would never do that to a French Fry.
