Dairy Queen DQ Grill & Chill, 10391 Ocean Highway (Pawleys Island): 8 November 2024 1 comment
This Dairy Queen replaced the old Hardee's and opened during the Pandemic of 2020 when people were desperate to get out of the house somehow, whether they could go inside and eat or not: During the opening weeks, the line of cars would be backed up on US-17 for half a block.
After that, things settled down, but from my observation the place seemed to do a decent business, making me think the closing may have more to do with the chain's ongoing issues than anything with this particular store.
I was a little bemused during my walk-around to see Dennis The Menace surfing on a mural. Dennis was the chain's spokeskid during the 70s, and one radio commercial of Dennis and his pal Joey talking gave me a (probably annoying) catch-phrase to throw into conversations: Yeah, Joey: Like a super-brazier chilli-dog! I had thought Dennis & Dairy Queen had parted ways years ago, but I guess not.
Here is a very brief news note on the closing. As of early 2025 there is no activity with the building.
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Is Dairy Queen having issues? I haven't noticed, especially since they seem to operate in even the smallest of towns in Texas (a little less today since a big franchisee, Vasari, closed several years ago). When I went traveling, however, the situation was substantially different with Dairy Queens being much rarer.
In Michigan, most were walk-ups and open seasonally, and one of my professors from...North Carolina, I think, had seen a total exit of the chain from his market and was surprised to see they were very much alive and well in Texas.