#Dairy Queen

It’s not all doom and gloom, folks! In Minnesota, we’ve got a 900-car pay-it-forward chain happening at Dairy Queen: GMA–  A drive-thru at a Dairy Queen in Brainerd, Minnesota, was busy last week when more than 900 cars participated in a pay-it-forward chain. The pay-it-forward started Thursday

Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think The cooperative model accounts for $154B every year in America. America leads the world with cooperatives, with over 30,000 businesses operating under this model. Co-op advocate Nathan Schneider believes this model can help level the economic playing

Author: Melissa / Source: Today I Found Out The Slurpee was invented as a commercial product more or less by accident by a Dairy Queen franchisee Omar Knedlik in Kansas City in the late 1950s. Born in 1915 and having grown up relatively poor, after WWII Knedlik used his pay from his time serving

Source: mentalfloss.com It’s part lactose performance art, part boastfulness, and mostly awkward. Walk into any one of Dairy Queen’s 6000-plus U.S. locations (or up to a window) and there’s a very good chance your server will hand you a Blizzard—their soft serve treat packed with chunks of candy,

Author: Jennifer M Wood / Source: mentalfloss.com Though some parts of the country are still clearing out from last week’s snowstorms, spring is officially here—a little bit early, but not a moment too soon. And if the idea of soon-to-be-blooming flowers isn’t enough to get you excited about