Dairy Queen has its roots in the 1938 development of soft-serve ice cream by John Fremont McCullough and his son Bradley. They convinced a friend and customer of theirs, Sheb Noble, to serve this new soft-serve in his ice cream store and he sold 1,600 dishes of it within two hours.
The McCulloughs and Noble went on to open the first Dairy Queen in 1940 in Joilet, Illinois.
The company was an early pioneer of the franchise system and used it to open 10 stores by 1941, 100 by 1947, 1,446 by 1950, and 2,600 in 1955.
Dairy Queen became International Dairy Queen Inc. in 1962, known as IDQ.
IDQ bought the Orange Julius chain in 1987.
IDQ was bought by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.
Today, IDQ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, a company owned by Warren Buffet.
Today Dairy Queen has 5,700 stores in 19 countries.
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen has its roots in the 1938 development of soft-serve ice cream by John Fremont McCullough and his son Bradley. They convinced a friend and customer of theirs, Sheb Noble, to serve this new soft-serve in his ice cream store and he sold 1,600 dishes of it within two hours.
The McCulloughs and Noble went on to open the first Dairy Queen in 1940 in Joilet, Illinois.
The company was an early pioneer of the franchise system and used it to open 10 stores by 1941, 100 by 1947, 1,446 by 1950, and 2,600 in 1955.
History
Dairy Queen became International Dairy Queen Inc. in 1962, known as IDQ.
IDQ bought the Orange Julius chain in 1987.
IDQ was bought by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.
Today, IDQ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, a company owned by Warren Buffet.
Today Dairy Queen has 5,700 stores in 19 countries.