A Farewell to Dairy Queens

We still have a number of them here in western Pennsylvania. I don't go there very often, though. If I do, it's for a blizzard. We have a lot of good local ice cream places as well as normal fast food, it doesn't make a ton of sense to go there most of the time unless you want something specific like an ice cream cake, a blizzard, or a dilly bar.

Vasari’s higher-volume stores in the Dallas–Fort Worth area soon faced mounting competition from a new crop of frozen yogurt shops and joints like Twisted Root Burger Co., which calls itself a “flip flop and baseball cap” joint. “Millennials aren’t eating at fast-food outlets,” Dawson said. And declining revenue meant Vasari’s city stores were less able to prop up its lower-volume rural locations.

Well, at least we managed to blame the millennials somehow.

I had a hankering for something DQ a month ago and went there. Had been years. Great treats; I recall being able to take a bike ride through our subdivision growing up to the nearest DQ safely. Wouldn't be possible now.

There's 2 busy ones, within 15 miles from me. I doubt they'll be closing anytime soon.

They need to update the food menu items. I'd like to see them make the Dude with mashed potatoes and gravy, instead of mayo and burger toppings. If they could put it in a sliced, burger sized, butter roll, that would be perfect. I always have to get a side of gravy since they won't put it on it.

It's a shame about the others closing though.

Well, that was a sadder article than I thought it would be

Seems like an opportunity for someone to open something similar minus the franchisee fees.

I always swore My town was the only town in Texas that had no Dairy Queen. Sadly others will now feel my pain