Dairy Queen Canada

Simple Dairy Queen. Nothing to brag about. Service was decent, but not too friendly. If you just want a simple Blizzard or soft-​serve, this place is perfect, but like I said, just a simple Dairy Queen.

I still find it the most strangest thing for Dairy Queen to just have ice cream without the food too! Growing up on the east coast when someone mentioned Dairy Queen I immediately thought of poutine and burgers!
This location is always lined up out the door in the summer, usually only two people working and they can not handle the demand of ice cream.
It is located right in between Empress Walk and the Sheppard Centre, and being on the subway line I am sure they get more business as well,
This location used to only be open in the summer which would make sense because there isn’t a high demand for ice cream but since then alot of things have changed, they still do a fairly reasonable business in the winter.
It is nice to spot in on a hot day and evening walk for a treat!

Their Hygiene Ethic Sucks!
Let this be a warning to you. I went in for an ice cream cone and the young woman at the register dropped my change on the floor. Not a problem, down she went and swept it off with her left hand and gave it to me. Great! I thought.
Then she proceeded to get a cone from the stack and used her left hand to not only pick it up, but was kind enough to insert a couple of her fingers (very recently used to gather some coins off the floor) inside the cup.
I didn’t say anything because there were many people waiting, and I figured I’d just throw away the cone part (which I did) … but I will definitely not go back there! EVER! If you get something from there and get sick, well you know you had an extra helping of floor dirt with your ice cream …
The staff seem to be clueless about hygiene and disregard simple procedures like not touching foods with their bare hands after rubbing their fingers on a filthy shop floor.
Disgusting!!! I’d give it ZERO marks if I could.

This Dairy Queen brings back tons of memories for me, leading back to my high school days.
Back then, my friends and I would go on our lunch break or spare period to grab a refreshing snack during the first month of school while it was still hot outside or to celebrate the end of the academic year with a cold treat when the summer weather would approach.
This location is right smack on Yonge Street near the Empress Walk and Sheppard Grande movie theatres. This is great because if you rather go for ice cream than a coffee, you can stop into this Dairy Queen before or after a flick.
I have a few weaknesses at DQ — their chocolate dipped cones and their blizzards.
Some of the key flavours I LOVE for my blizzard are the chocolate chip cookie dough, strawberry cheesequake, reeses pieces and banana cream pie.
All of their ice cream products are really cheap, which makes it a simple and delicious spot to stop off and cool off.
Also, if you live in the area or not, you can eat your ice cream and take a nice walk around the Yonge Street area or walk in the residential neighbourhoods that outline this area.

In other provinces, they used to make something called a Mr. Misty Freeze. I was one of those colourful slushies with a nice portion of frozen custard which was then blended. The ice remained somewhat grainy, and ‘brain freeze’ was almost guaranteed.
Now my fare consists of the Blizzard which is delicious. A great place for late in a hot evening just strolling aroud.

This store is right by my boyfriend’s condo, so it’s somewhere we go on occasion (ok, maybe more than an occasion) to get a dessert and walk around. The actual store is quite small, and there’s no seating area other than a small counter coming out of the wall to lean against.
The thing I like about this Dairy Queen is that they just do ice cream, and perhaps hotdogs (though I wouldn’t buy one, I think they microwave their stuff. I could be wrong). They have yummy Reese Piece blizzard and hot fudge dipped cone. I wouldn’t recommend eating a hot fudge dipped cone on a hot day, while on lunch at work, it can get very messy, very fast! Also I found out, after having a craving for ice cream cones, that you can get a cone (just a cone) for only $ 0.52! woo hoo!
From time to time they have a day where a portion of the day’s sales goes towards charity. I don’t remember what charity it was, but it nice to be able to support a charity and eat your ice cream too.