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title: "Franchise Times: International Dairy Queen Inc. Elaborates on Success Throughout 2016"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/08b6efcd-3943-4de3-8f4b-d356ff26ab70
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-international-dairy-queen-inc-elaborates-on-success-throughout-2016-11946
category: "Snacks & dessert"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Snacks & dessert"
published: 2017-04-25T20:15:02.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T03:06:44.148Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/c98da86896358ac02d3a380498f839a11373.jpg
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# Franchise Times: International Dairy Queen Inc. Elaborates on Success Throughout 2016

**TL;DR:** International Dairy Queen Inc. added 318 new locations globally in 2016, with 82 openings in the US. The brand celebrated its best year for DQ Grill & Chill locations sales.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-04-25. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-international-dairy-queen-inc-elaborates-on-success-throughout-2016-11946).*

## Story

For a brand that has been successful for more than 75 years, the addition of 318 new Dairy Queen locations across the globe in 2016 shows impressive staying power.

Dairy Queen celebrated 2016 as the year that it sold the most DQ Grill & Chill locations, the brand’s growing QSR concept, in any single year.

In total, 82 locations opened in the U.S. in 2016 and nearly 100 percent of those were DQ Grill & Chill model restaurants. Twenty-nine states saw new locations last year and markets like Little Rock, Arkansas, Staten Island, New York, Knoxville, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina experienced DQ locations open for the first time.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- unit expansion (topic)
- location growth (topic)
- Dairy Queen (company)
- qsr concept (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-international-dairy-queen-inc-elaborates-on-success-throughout-2016-11946). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/08b6efcd-3943-4de3-8f4b-d356ff26ab70).