Dairy Queen

Not up to snuff. Weak, old coffee. Weak tea. Burger fries treats ok. Main lady at counter very nice. Others don’t know what doing. Will not be back to this one. Ever.

I stop here whenever I make my yearly trip from Dallas to visit my old high school friends in Brazoria County and in Houston. This year I went in November to my high school reunion and stopped in for a burger. They could not take orders of any kind because their regional computer system that handles the orders was down. That was maybe not the store’s fault, but in December, stopped by on my way to Houston and was low on cash. I decided to get a burger and water, to save money on an expensive drink. I noticed a charge for a strawberry topping on the receipt and asked why, since there was no one who would ever put strawberries on a burger? C’maahn! So they told me they had to charge 69 cents for a cup of tap water and could not find a way to get that done except to lie about a strawberry topping! I will, from now on, drive on into the severely overcrowded city of College Station and get a sandwich from a good fast-​food restaurant next time. I don’t mind paying more for honesty and sincere, good customer service from one of many fast food places that won’t charge underhandedly for a cup of tap water!

I was driving through Bryan and I got a little hungry and I was looking for something quick. Lo and behold, there was DQ. Sweet! I pulled out my phone, Unilocaled it, and I saw the one star rating. Uh-​oh, should I stop here? But what the hell, I was hungry and I wanted food. FAST.
I got in and immediately I saw that the place was pretty run down. But I went ahead and order anyway. I ordered the spicy chicken fingers large combo and an ice cream cone. This cost me about $ 12. HOLY SHIZNIT! $ 12 for a combo and ice cream cone? I didn’t remember DQ being that expensive.
Anyway, like any good person who’s about to eat some finger food, I went straight to the restroom to wash my hands. Guess what? The soap dispenser was empty. So I went out and asked one of the workers there to put some soap in it. Yeah, it took them about five minutes before anyone actually went back there to TRY and put some soap in the dispenser.
The lady (who I’m guessing is the boss) didn’t know how to open the soap dispenser unit. I had to do it for her. Also, the whole time she was yelling at one of her workers in the ladies’ room to get out of the restroom and go back to work. She was rambling about how she’s always going to the restroom. The worker, of course, was yelling back from inside the restroom. It was weird and awkward.
Anyway, I finally got my food… and they gave me ORIGINAL chicken fingers. I asked for spicy. The cashier asked me if I wanted original or spicy TWICE. And both times I’d told her, «SPICY». But I was too hungry to care anymore so I just ate my chicken, ate my fries, ate my ice cream cone and I took my fat ass out of there.
P. S. The sodas tasted funny. I think it wasn’t necessarily the soda, but more the ice machine. God knows when was the last time they actually cleaned the ice machine.

I grew up coming to this location at least once a week. Not sure what’s changed, but the steak fingers USED to be yummy. And trying to cheap on the soda syrup by upping the carbonated water is just bad form. I’ll never be back. Thanks for wrecking my childhood memories of delicious steak fingers and gravy.