Dairy Queen
Logo used since 2007 | |
A modern Dairy Queen restaurant in Crawfordville, Florida, United States | |
| Dairy Queen DQ | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Restaurant |
| Genre | Ice cream parlor Fast food |
| Founded | June 22, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois, US |
| Founders | John Fremont McCullough Alex McCullough Sherb Noble |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations | 4,455 (US domestic, 2018) 6,800 (global) |
Area served | United States, Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Guyana, Indonesia, Kuwait, Laos, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Puerto Rico |
Key people | Troy Bader (president and CEO) |
| Products | Soft serve, milkshakes, cakes, sundaes, hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, chicken strips, french fries, cheese curds, onion rings, soft drinks, salads |
| Revenue | $3.64 billion (US, 2017) |
| Parent | Berkshire Hathaway |
| Subsidiaries | American Dairy Queen Dairy Queen Canada Orange Julius |
| Website | dairyqueen |
International Dairy Queen, Inc. (DQ) is an American multinational fast food restaurant chain founded in 1940 and headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. The first Dairy Queen was owned and operated by Sherb Noble and opened on June 22, 1940, in Joliet, Illinois. It serves a variety of hot and fried food, as well as original frozen dairy products that vary from location to location.
The company has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1998.