9/13/2004 - Dairy Queen

Originally uploaded by John Setzler.

I made this photo back in 2004 when this particular Dairy Queen shop was celebrating its 50th anniversary here in Hickory. This Dairy Queen shop doesn’t have tables and chairs… it’s just a drive/walk-up ice cream shop where you get your stuff ‘to-go’. It’s only open during warm weather months between April and October (I think).

I really like Dairy Queen soft-serve ice cream. But if I want to sit down and eat it in the store, I have to go to the Dairy Queen over on the other side of town. It’s newer and has hotdogs, fries, chicken, and barbecue stuff as well as all the normal ice cream treats. I have been there three times this summer so far, and each time it seems like there are only one or two people working. It takes forever to get a simple cone of ice cream. The line is always too long. The old Dairy Queen usually has three people working inside and I never have to wait long for anything.

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