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Black Friday, Cyber Monday or Bust?
A few years back, my husband and I got up at 4:30 a.m. to go stand in line at the local Circuit City store the day after Thanksgiving so that we could get some fabulous electronic gadget for one of our fabulous children. Traffic was heavy and it wa...
One Colossal Cake
To celebrate Canada Day on July 1, employees at the DQ® Canada corporate office came up with a huge idea—to build the nation’s largest cake. The massive soft-serve cake weighed in at 1,540 pounds and was made of 120 gallons of vanilla and chocol...
Conan O’Brien Makes Late Afternoon Appearance at DQ®
It was around 6:30 on a typical spring Sunday evening in Edwardsville, Ill., when who should waltz into the local Dairy Queen® restaurant but late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien. According to DQ® employees who were working at the time, the variety ...
DQ® Panama Turns 50
Everyone in the United States knows that the Dairy Queen® system has been around forever… or at least for about the last 70 years. But what many people might not know is that the Dairy Queen brand exists in other countries besides the United State...
The End of an Era
As the saying goes, all good things have to come to an end. Although I understand that my world around me is constantly changing and evolving, it doesn’t mean that it is always easy to accept. Growing up in Mountain Lake, a small farming communit...
Halloween Office Shenanigans!
Remember Halloween or harvest parties from your childhood? How you spent weeks agonizing over what would be The perfect costume? And how much fun it was to try to figure out who was behind that goofy looking mask? We do! And many of us here a...

