You've been wondering when Dairy Queen will be opening up in Dauphin, and now we have a better idea.
"The hope is for our franchisee to take possession of the space for their set up and leaseholder permits roughly in mid-October," said Eric Rochefort, Dairy Queen Franchise Developer for Eastern and Northern Canada. "Typically from there, we should expect to see the store opening 90 days after that. So, we're looking at the end of January."
As far as a menu, you can expect the exact same as any Dairy Queen you've ever had a blizzard from or a burger.
"From a development perspective, Dairy Queen's sweet spot has been in small towns just like Dauphin," said Rochefort. "We're going all out with a core-72 building which is our biggest. That mean's it'll have 72 seats inside, as well as a drive-thru."
"Well have all of our burgers, blizzards, drinks and everything else you expect to get from a Dairy Queen," he added. "We're very excited to be going to the community of Dauphin. It's a good feeling that we'll be servicing not only Dauphin but all of the surrounding communities."
Not only will Dairy Queen offer Parklanders a different food and dessert choice, but it will also create dozens of new jobs.
"We're going to be looking at hiring 50-60 local people to work the store," said Rochefort. "It's always nice to know that we'll be contributing to the city from a job creation perspective, so it's really exciting."
"And our existing franchisees own a couple of Dairy Queens already, so we'll be coming to Dauphin with some expertise from an operational perspective," he added. "We're going to be involved in the community whether it be supporting local sport, or organizations and things like that. We're really excited about the whole thing."
