Isn’t it supposed to be ice creams and milkshakes and stuff?
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.
Hot eats cool treats. That was the slogan 20 years ago. Get some chicken strips and a blizzard.
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.
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.”
Yeah, soft serve is just frozen sugar milk, comes in cartons like regular milk and you can totally just drink it, tastes a bit like whole milk but clearly with an unhealthy amount of sugar in it.
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”
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.
How long have they been a fast food store? I thought they were an ice cream shop
1990’s? At least in Canada.
DQ has surprisingly good chili dogs. Their burgers aren’t bad, if you omit the ketchup.
Their chicken tenders are some of the best fast food tenders you can get too. Plus they come with sourdough toast
