Dairy Queen

So, this review isn’t about this DQ per se, but this was the last one I was at, so it will have to bear my wrath.
Let me explain something first; I don’t really like candy or cheap, pre-​packaged cookies and I most especially don’t like them in my ice cream. On the other hand, i love the blended ice cream of a blizzard. This should be simple, right?
I naively thought that I could order a vanilla/​strawberry/​chocolate blizzard minus the cookies or candy. Oh, how deluded I was. Every DQ I am at, the server looks at me in consternation when I ask for this. I get, in an incredulous voice, «you mean you don’t want any candy in it?»
Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Today, I got soft serve ice cream instead. THIS IS NOT THE SAME THING DQ PEOPLE! soft serv ≠ blizzard ice cream.
Ok, I think I’m better now… if any DQ people read this, please tell me why this simplest of simple requests causes so much angst.

This is the second time I ordered a brownie & cookie dough blizzard. And I get a white blizzard with some chocolate chips and no cookie dough. Which I expected to get some chocolate ice cream, brownie & cookie dough. Thi is the worst DQ I ever been to.

The husband and I live in a unique spot — equidistant from TWO DQ’s. We chose this one for a while over the one that’s just west of downtown Ferndale, but we’ve now decided to abandon this location for two primary reasons:
1) The creepy owner guy. He has ONLY teenage girls working there. For the last 5 years I don’t remember one male working there. At first, I appreciate that he’s not leaving these young girls alone in the evenings for safety reasons, but there’s something just «odd» about his demeanor. He’s never working, just «there.»
2) They close at odd hours and if you show up around closing time (you’ll know this by half of the gates pulled down) you’ll feel rushed, like you’re in the way. We’ve shown up at 8pm on a relatively nice evening and they’re closed, whereas sometimes they’re open. It doesn’t make sense.
The product they make is always good, and the girls are nice, but we just find the guy and the random hours a big turn-​off.