Dairy Queen is not just a restaurant. It is a chain of restaurants that specialize in ice cream and frozen yogurt. The chain was started in 1946 by Harold K. “Buddy” Seibert and his wife, Dorothy.
They opened their first Dairy Queen in Wichita, Kansas. The chain grew rapidly and by 1960, there were over 1,000 Dairy Queens in operation.
The company changed its name to Dairy Queen in 1971. That year, it opened its first franchised location.
In 1984, the company acquiredovie chain called Blizzard. That same year, Dairy Queen opened its first international location in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Today, the Dairy Queen chain has over 3,000 locations worldwide. It is the world’s largest chain of freestanding soft-serve ice cream and Frozen Yogurt restaurants.