#DIAREY QUEEN MENU HOW TO#
But keep in mind that, setting aside access to the necessary ingredients, a local shop “might not be able to make a purportedly secret item because chances are, most employees don’t know how to make them.” “The issue with all the ‘secret menu’ stuff is that some people will get upset if the store cannot do it,” Culpepper tells me. The secret for gaining access to these secret menu items - or the secret menu items of any restaurant for that matter - is by being patient and polite. “We haven’t carried those truffle pieces in over five years, Crunch Coat Cones were strictly a local thing in the Ohio Valley and anything with ‘pie’ in the name takes pie pieces, which we don’t carry year-round,” Culpepper continues. The thing is, each purported Dairy Queen secret menu item, he explains, requires ingredients that most stores don’t carry. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked about the Butterbeer Blizzard, the Midnight Truffle, Crunch Coat Cones and the Caramel Delight Pie,” Culpepper says.
As such, Culpepper tells me, “most of the typical clickbait sites posting ‘secret menu items’ list items that are actually on the menu, have been long discontinued or are outright made up.”īecause individual Dairy Queen restuarants get to decide how rigidly they’d like to adhere to the corporate office’s guidelines, that means whether or not a store has an item from the “secret menu” published in such articles “ultimately comes down to whether that store wants to offer something non-menu, and if they can get the specific ingredients needed.” In other words, very few of the chain’s 4,400 domestic locations are owned by Dairy Queen’s corporate office, so there isn’t necessarily a central governing body that decides what is, or isn’t, on the menu - secret or otherwise. “But the long answer is that there is no such thing as a secret menu at Dairy Queen because the DQ system is a fractured franchise inside the U.S.” In fact, according to Stuart Culpepper, a Dairy Queen manager in North Carolina, whether or not Dairy Queen even has a secret menu is “a very simple question with a fairly convoluted answer.” “The short answer is no,” he explains. There is certainly no shortage of articles laying claim to “Dairy Queen’s secret menu.” However, very few of them include verifiable information provided by actual Dairy Queen employees. But maybe I just don’t know what I should be asking for? That is, maybe, like In-N-Out Burger and the McGangbang at McDonald’s, Dairy Queen possesses a secret menu with all kinds of other options that only a select few know about. From the minute its first shop opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois, Dairy Queen has dominated the competition, becoming one of the few, if not the only, nationally recognized soft-serve ice cream chains.Īnd while I would happily eat Oreo Blizzards for the rest of my life, I can’t help but feel the stifled competition leaves me at the mercy of Dairy Queen’s somewhat limited menu.
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