Dairy Queen Logo — Dairy Queen (abbreviated to DQ, Dairy Queen ) is a chain of international ice cream and restaurants of fast food . Founded in 1938 by John McCullough and since 1940 has used a franchise system to expand its operations internationally. Your franchise is the largest Texas . Dairy Queen International is the parent company of Dairy Queen, which operates under the title of American Dairy Queen in the United States . At the end of its fiscal year 2006 , Dairy Queen has reported that more than 5,600 stores in more than a dozen countries; about 4,600 of its stores, or approximately 85% are in the United States .
Sherb’s was the name of a small ice cream shop that opened in South West Avenue in Chicago , Illinois on August 4th of 1938 . The store owner, thirty-year-old Sherwood Dick “Sherb” Noble, a native of Clemons, of Iowa , an active member of the Masons, had been associated with dairy products from their adolescence . What his customers were offered that day in Kankakee , a new semi-frozen, “soft serve” dairy product formulated by a recent acquaintance and new business partner, JF McCullough. The Dairy Queen companies and franchises Sherb Noble recognized as the “original Dairy Queen operator.” More