Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen is an international chain of fast food restaurants started by John Fremont McCullough on June 22, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.^[2]

Dairy Queen

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Restaurants
Founded	Joliet, Illinois, United States (June 22, 1940)
Headquarters	Edina, Minnesota, United States
Key people	Warren Buffett John Gainor (CEO) Charles J. Chapman III (COO) James S. Simpson (CFO) Michael Keller (CBO)
Products	Soft serve Hamburgers Hot dogs Chicken
Revenue	US$2.5 billion (2008)[1]
Number of employees	2,362 (2008)
Website	dairyqueen.com

A Dairy Queen restaurant in Moncton, New Brunswick

Dairy Queen's menu is mostly soft serve ice cream, hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken. One of Dairy Queen's most popular items is the Blizzard. It was first made in 1985.^[3] It is a cup of soft-serve mixed with different ingredients. They come in many different flavors. Sometime the server will flip the blizzard upside down to show how thick the treat is.^[4]

On August 17, 1987, Dairy Queen bought the drink chain Orange Julius.^[5]

Operations

Dairy Queen is currently operated in:

•  Bahamas
•  Bahrain
•  Brunei
•  Cambodia
•  Canada
•  Cayman Islands
•  China
•  Costa Rica
•  Egypt
•  Guatemala
•  Guyana
•  Indonesia
•  Kuwait
•  Laos
•  Mexico
•  Oman
•  Panama
•  Philippines
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  South Korea
•  Taiwan
•  Thailand
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  United Arab Emirates
•  United States
•  Vietnam

Dairy Queen was previously operated in:

•  Austria (withdrew around 1999)
•  Cyprus
•  Dominican Republic (withdrew in the 2000s)
•  Gabon
•  Guam
•  Hungary (withdrew in the 1990s)
•  Italy
•  Japan (withdrew in 1999; expected to reenter)
•  Malaysia (withdrew in the 2010s)
•  Morocco (withdrew in the 2000s)
•  Poland (withdrew in 2016)
•  Singapore (withdrew in May 2016)
•  Australia
•  Puerto Rico (withdrew in the 2000s, expected to reenter)
•  Slovenia (withdrew in 2000)
•  Turkey (withdrew in the 1990s)
•  Macau (withdrew in 2016)