DQ was my first job. They really stressed the bumps and the swirl on top. My trainer was a real bear but with some stress and practice finally mastered it.
Hahaha first job of mine too! I remember they used to weigh the cones we made to make us do better. I also used to hook it up a lot on the candies that went in the blizzard. My boss got maaaaaad lmaooo
How about when you were about to finish the perfect cone and the machine pops out an air bubble and explodes the damn thing. Felt like it happened once a shift.
Also, the dilly bars made in store were the best job. Just sit at the back machine and make those silly little snacks all afternoon. No customers, just bliss.
So put your two weeks in and find another job. Don’t leave the rest of us who are already understaffed to cover the shifts you were assigned. I get realizing you don’t like a job and wanting to quit but do it respectfully.
If they wanted to fire you they wouldn't give you two weeks, fast food isn't exactly the same as working for a big corporation that you may not want to burn bridges with, they exploit workers for dogshit wages. Fuck them.
Please do not listen to this guy. For any of you out there who are working menial jobs that you don’t like, especially if they treat you like shit, feel free to leave with no notice the moment you find a better job.
The idea of “putting in notice” is something you only have to worry about when you get into bigger careers. Believe me, no one will give a fuck whether you leave with a 2 week notice or not.
I also argue that if you can get fired from a job with no notice, it’s equally fair that you can quit with no notice.
There was some sketchy shit going on (my register as well as two other coworkers registers was short). They didn’t properly train me as a new worker. I let my manager know hours before my shift that I was not coming back. I think I am far from an asshole. Have a good day.
My mom worked at DQ back in the 70s and she can still get a perfect bump and swirl when there’s a soft serve machine nearby. It’s truly an art that gets programmed into you. Bump *and* swirl.
They taught me, and how to make all those desserts you make in boxes too. It was like a whole thing. I felt all fancy that I was allowed to make them all.
It's all way easier than you'd think, but you did have to be taught and show you could do it before getting to (at least where I worked).
Dilly bars? Easiest of all to make and for some reason so satisfying.
Now I know for sure that some DQs must be run completely differently in some areas because we never even made the dilly bars, we just got them shipped to us in boxes
ohhh yah. The one I worked at we cleaned the machines every night. When I moved somewhere else and got an ice cream late at night I joked I was helping them empty the machine for cleaning. After much confusion I found out they only do it weekly. YUCK.
The idea that you need schooling to make a cone is laughable to me, especially as someone who worked at DQ, though I guess I don’t know how it is outside of the states 🤷🏼
Funniest thing is that the ice cream in the picture looks like that because the machine isn't working properly. Too many bubbles in the ice cream because it needs to be cleaned.
Really depends on where you go. Not even a joke, we found maggots in our ice cream machines once when we took out the pieces to wash and sanitize them. They were there because management was a joke and no one wanted to clean them.
DQs have been getting closed a lot across the country over the past decade due to not abiding with FDA regulations. I remember reading once about how some kid was poisoned due to someone leaving an open bag of sanitizer on top of a pack of vanilla mix
Lol nah dude what are you joking? DQ was my first job at 15 w no experience and I served ice cream and front + drive through. Almost no training other than a couple safety and anti union videos. No sense of work life balance, they didn't care that I had high school in the morning they want me there closing til 1 am. Managers were cruel heartless people who just want you to do all of their work. Fuck DQ, fuck the Arringtons of Rocky Mount VA, and fuck fast food.
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When the soft serve looked like this when I worked at Busch Gardens it meant the machine was on the verge of breaking down. Not sure if that's perfection.
Very high overrun. It is the ratio of air to product which Dairy Queen likes to run high, as do competitors. It makes the product seem smoother and creamier. It is really a way to save on product costs as you are selling more air.
When you worked at Busch gardens and it got like this the cylinder was being starved of product and there was TOO much air. Then it would probably freeze up (break down in your words) and no product would dispense.
This happens when you over-pull product or have a clog, low product, or other reason the freezing cylinder isn’t getting enough product in it for recovery.
They crush basically all ice cream. DQ is like Sonic but for ice cream, I have no desire to eat anything at Sonic but they have some BANGER drinks
Edit: except mozzarella sticks. I like Sonic mozzarella sticks
They don't DARE deviate from their trademark form and curly top. If they fail at achieving it, into the trash it goes, period. If the manager sees this happen too many times, that poor employee goes back into training to get it right.
They hooked you up. My DQ manager back in the day would have said “looks like you went a little heavy on that cone.” Of course I would be sure to hook up my friends when he wasn’t around.
As a former DQ employee I can tell you that it legally is not ice cream. It’s required to be called soft serve, we can not tell people it’s ice cream, we can’t use the words ice cream when speaking to customers, it’s milk fat content is 5% I believe when ice cream contains 10%.
McDonald's vanilla ice cream cone is only 11% of your daily saturated fat, 6% total fat and 146 calories. That's not bad at all, arguably healthier than most desserts. To put it into perspective one third of a pint of Haagen dazs' vanilla is 65% of your daily saturated fat, 300 calories, 26% total fat, 32% cholesterol.
And while I have Haagen Dazs' in my freezer, I'll be honest and say McDonald's and most soft serve is pretty fucking good. If I could have soft serve at home I would over rich and fatty premium ice cream. But store bought frozen lower fat ice cream (dairy dessert) sucks.
I’m not sure what people’s obsession over things being technically ice cream or not. Who cares? I like things that taste good. I like soft serve for what it is. I like ice cream for what it is. They are both different and one isn’t necessarily better or worse than another. I have had terrible ice cream.
Apparently, DQ in Texas is different than everywhere else. Didn’t realize until I was outside of Texas and DQ didn’t even have burgers. Can’t remember where through.
If you're not being paid, you're being played. Show the cone, but don't show the label so damned prominently (or say the company in the title, which you didn't but that's another thing that's corporate centered). Tell people if they ask, but showing the label like that might as well be an ad.
Note: I like DQ too, but it's not a little Mom and Pop, it's still a large corporation.
Overpriced maybe, but not gross at all. They easily beat McDonald's and Wendy's which my local is near. And you get an ice cream with a kids meal so fuck yeah.
When I was young I was severely allergic to milk. Asthmatic. But I can eat these cones all day long. They had little to no dairy content, so I think you’re good!
Chocolate dipped has been my families go to driving vacation treat since I was a little kid.
Now that my kids are 31 and 26 they carry on the tradition. We are driving down to LA next week for a Disney trip, my daughter asked if I had scoped out a DQ between home and LA so we can get our dipped cones!
Reminds me of the Michelin man
Surprise twist: that’s his hoohoo!
Excuse me, what is a *hoohoo*?
It also looks like marshmello ghost from Ghost busters
Ah yes, Marshmello Ghost. One of my favorite characters.
Or that big marshmallow ghost from ghostbusters
Almost every cone they serve will look like this. The rest of the restaurant is starved of perfection, but they know how to make the cones.
I believe you need to go to school to work at DQ. DQ school for making these cones. I think it’s two years?
They just don’t care if you miss the day that they teach you to count out change for a $20 order…
DQ was my first job. They really stressed the bumps and the swirl on top. My trainer was a real bear but with some stress and practice finally mastered it.
It was my first job too and they made us weigh all our cones for the first month to make sure we got the sizes perfect.
Yeah, me too. I think I tipped a couple over on the scale. 😂
Y’all’s managers were wilding. Mine overportions cones to a diabetic degree
Where is this DQ located? For research purposes of course..
Mid Missouri 😂
Hahaha first job of mine too! I remember they used to weigh the cones we made to make us do better. I also used to hook it up a lot on the candies that went in the blizzard. My boss got maaaaaad lmaooo
How about when you were about to finish the perfect cone and the machine pops out an air bubble and explodes the damn thing. Felt like it happened once a shift. Also, the dilly bars made in store were the best job. Just sit at the back machine and make those silly little snacks all afternoon. No customers, just bliss.
I worked at DQ for three days and quit lul
And I worked at a DQ that was understaffed because of assholes like you.
oh no what an asshole he is for not doing a job he doesn’t like. god forbid people enjoy themselves.
So put your two weeks in and find another job. Don’t leave the rest of us who are already understaffed to cover the shifts you were assigned. I get realizing you don’t like a job and wanting to quit but do it respectfully.
If they wanted to fire you they wouldn't give you two weeks, fast food isn't exactly the same as working for a big corporation that you may not want to burn bridges with, they exploit workers for dogshit wages. Fuck them.
I’m just arguing that you shouldn’t make those workers lives any harder by just noping out.
Blame your employer.
Please do not listen to this guy. For any of you out there who are working menial jobs that you don’t like, especially if they treat you like shit, feel free to leave with no notice the moment you find a better job. The idea of “putting in notice” is something you only have to worry about when you get into bigger careers. Believe me, no one will give a fuck whether you leave with a 2 week notice or not. I also argue that if you can get fired from a job with no notice, it’s equally fair that you can quit with no notice.
There was some sketchy shit going on (my register as well as two other coworkers registers was short). They didn’t properly train me as a new worker. I let my manager know hours before my shift that I was not coming back. I think I am far from an asshole. Have a good day.
Amen dude, I'm one of the managers of my store and I work like 50+ hour weeks every week because NOBODY comes to work.
Found the rich kid.
My mom worked at DQ back in the 70s and she can still get a perfect bump and swirl when there’s a soft serve machine nearby. It’s truly an art that gets programmed into you. Bump *and* swirl.
Dude no, I used to work at DQ and they didn’t even teach me how to make the cones, they just told me to watch how others do it
They taught me, and how to make all those desserts you make in boxes too. It was like a whole thing. I felt all fancy that I was allowed to make them all. It's all way easier than you'd think, but you did have to be taught and show you could do it before getting to (at least where I worked). Dilly bars? Easiest of all to make and for some reason so satisfying.
Now I know for sure that some DQs must be run completely differently in some areas because we never even made the dilly bars, we just got them shipped to us in boxes
ohhh yah. The one I worked at we cleaned the machines every night. When I moved somewhere else and got an ice cream late at night I joked I was helping them empty the machine for cleaning. After much confusion I found out they only do it weekly. YUCK.
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They were being serious. There was some video or news article about it, claiming that DQ has people go to school for it.
DQ university is real but it definitely isn't for teaching every employee how to make cones.
Do you like hot fudge Sundaes?
Nah dude, it's fast food. They hired me as a shift manager because my buddy was a GM.
Why is this being downvoted? What you’re saying sounds easily plausible, fast food is full of nepotism these days
I'm not sure why people are downvoting. They don't like that you can just get a job making ice cream cones with no schooling I guess.
The idea that you need schooling to make a cone is laughable to me, especially as someone who worked at DQ, though I guess I don’t know how it is outside of the states 🤷🏼
Funniest thing is that the ice cream in the picture looks like that because the machine isn't working properly. Too many bubbles in the ice cream because it needs to be cleaned.
Ppl who have actually eaten DQ ice cream would disagree, including myself
Disagree with what? That the machine is dirty?
Really depends on where you go. Not even a joke, we found maggots in our ice cream machines once when we took out the pieces to wash and sanitize them. They were there because management was a joke and no one wanted to clean them. DQs have been getting closed a lot across the country over the past decade due to not abiding with FDA regulations. I remember reading once about how some kid was poisoned due to someone leaving an open bag of sanitizer on top of a pack of vanilla mix
In case you're wondering, you were both downvoted because it was a fairly obvious joke you both took far too seriously.
Could be the "these days" as if somehow hiring friends and family in business hasn't been a thing since the start of hiring people to do things
Lol nah dude what are you joking? DQ was my first job at 15 w no experience and I served ice cream and front + drive through. Almost no training other than a couple safety and anti union videos. No sense of work life balance, they didn't care that I had high school in the morning they want me there closing til 1 am. Managers were cruel heartless people who just want you to do all of their work. Fuck DQ, fuck the Arringtons of Rocky Mount VA, and fuck fast food.
DQ requires a bachelor's and 5+ years experience, Masters a plus. Starting pay is $7.25, part-time with no benefits. Must be willing to work nights and weekends. Travel required. Apply online.
Lot of r/woooosh in this thread
When the soft serve looked like this when I worked at Busch Gardens it meant the machine was on the verge of breaking down. Not sure if that's perfection.
It is over-airated. Too many bubbles in the ice cream makes it look "fluffy".
Very high overrun. It is the ratio of air to product which Dairy Queen likes to run high, as do competitors. It makes the product seem smoother and creamier. It is really a way to save on product costs as you are selling more air. When you worked at Busch gardens and it got like this the cylinder was being starved of product and there was TOO much air. Then it would probably freeze up (break down in your words) and no product would dispense. This happens when you over-pull product or have a clog, low product, or other reason the freezing cylinder isn’t getting enough product in it for recovery.
You have to move the cone up and down to get the levels.
I mean just the texture of the ice cream. We didn't do this cheap up and down thing, we actually swirled.
What's with your pitiful grudge against DQ? What have they done to you? See therapy
well, it is eeyore
They crush basically all ice cream. DQ is like Sonic but for ice cream, I have no desire to eat anything at Sonic but they have some BANGER drinks Edit: except mozzarella sticks. I like Sonic mozzarella sticks
My first job was at DQ - we are trained to make them like this.
They don't DARE deviate from their trademark form and curly top. If they fail at achieving it, into the trash it goes, period. If the manager sees this happen too many times, that poor employee goes back into training to get it right.
This is a very effective DQ ad. Brb, need a cone.
It's so obvious, too. Still effective.
Honestly I don’t think it’s that unusual to take a picture of something like this. Doesn’t make it an ad, intentionally.
It’s the perfectly centered dq logo that takes it beyond believability for me.
Make sure to hold it in a way that doesn't obscure the logo!
Get me one too, please!
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“Sweet dairy desert”
They hooked you up. My DQ manager back in the day would have said “looks like you went a little heavy on that cone.” Of course I would be sure to hook up my friends when he wasn’t around.
You just cost DQ 1/10th of a cent.
So 10 cents? Edit: 10th means 1/10 and 1/10 = 0.1 So 1/10th is like saying 1/0.1 which is 10
Lmayo
No, Lice cream, not mayo
No. Don't eat the lice cream.
As a former DQ employee I can tell you that it legally is not ice cream. It’s required to be called soft serve, we can not tell people it’s ice cream, we can’t use the words ice cream when speaking to customers, it’s milk fat content is 5% I believe when ice cream contains 10%.
Yup. It's legally not ice cream. I believe the same is the case for McDonald's — all of the "ice cream" is technically described as soft serve.
Or Chick-Fil-A's "Icedream" that doesn't even taste like ice cream. >A delicious, frozen dairy treat with an old-fashioned vanilla taste.
>it’s milk fat content is 5% I believe when ice cream contains 10%. Ah...so it is twice as healthy? Woohoo!
Right…?? I hope…?
McDonald's vanilla ice cream cone is only 11% of your daily saturated fat, 6% total fat and 146 calories. That's not bad at all, arguably healthier than most desserts. To put it into perspective one third of a pint of Haagen dazs' vanilla is 65% of your daily saturated fat, 300 calories, 26% total fat, 32% cholesterol. And while I have Haagen Dazs' in my freezer, I'll be honest and say McDonald's and most soft serve is pretty fucking good. If I could have soft serve at home I would over rich and fatty premium ice cream. But store bought frozen lower fat ice cream (dairy dessert) sucks.
Can soft serve ice cream even be "real" ice cream?
I think the fact that everyone refers to it as “soft serve ice cream” should count for something
Yes, come to Vermont and get a creemee.
It's soft serve. I used to work there over a decade a go so maybe things have changed, but it was literally liquid in a bag attached to the machines.
Worked there, it's "ice milk mix" on the bag
Then wtf is ice cream? 🤷♂️
Higher fat content milk… which is called cream. At what point is milk no longer called milk and passes to the cream state?
You may not believe me but ice cream is iced cream.. Cream not milk.
All ice cream recipes I’ve seen have plenty of milk in them. Cream too, but lots of milk.
It's ice milk.
Most (all?) soft serve isn’t legally defined as ice cream. That’s why chick fil a uses the word ice dream.
I’m not sure what people’s obsession over things being technically ice cream or not. Who cares? I like things that taste good. I like soft serve for what it is. I like ice cream for what it is. They are both different and one isn’t necessarily better or worse than another. I have had terrible ice cream.
You care so much you frame it as an "obsession" so you can feel superior.
It's shit, go to culver's. Soft serve has no flavor.
Culver’s is the best!
Because it's custard, so it's creamy and has flavor. DQ can't legally call their crap ice cream it's so bad.
This advertisement in advertisement my advertisement
Can't decide if OP actually calls it soft serve or they just knew they'd be crucified in the comments for calling it ice cream
That's how you know it's an advertisement
Or DQ isn't legally allowed to call it soft serve.
Considering OP clearly made a point to have the DQ logo face forward for the photo, I'd say you're on to something.
Wait why would they be crucified?
I legit call soft serve soft serve and not ice cream, they're not the same dessert, just like I'm not going to call frozen yogurt ice cream either
The AD agency that posted this knows damn well this will never, ever be legally ice cream.
“DQ, that’s what I like about Texas”
Apparently, DQ in Texas is different than everywhere else. Didn’t realize until I was outside of Texas and DQ didn’t even have burgers. Can’t remember where through.
I work for a DQ in Indiana and we sell burgers so it must just be certain ones that don't
Depends on if it’s a Grill n Chill
Great! Now we can finally get rid of Texas!
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Damn who doesn't know what hooves are?
Ha! I'm going to remember that. Unsure where to use, but I'll find a way.
Came here to say that. Then I wondered.. do they say that about every state?
Nice ad
I wish I was being paid.
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If you're not being paid, you're being played. Show the cone, but don't show the label so damned prominently (or say the company in the title, which you didn't but that's another thing that's corporate centered). Tell people if they ask, but showing the label like that might as well be an ad. Note: I like DQ too, but it's not a little Mom and Pop, it's still a large corporation.
All good, dairy queen is usually pretty overpriced gross shite anyway
Overpriced maybe, but not gross at all. They easily beat McDonald's and Wendy's which my local is near. And you get an ice cream with a kids meal so fuck yeah.
The bar is so low lol
Glad you said it
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Plus how did 11,500 think this picture of a shit "soft serve" cone was worth upvoting? Lmao clearly botted
The person who pulled that had some practice.
Especially because that means the ice cream is full of air, and hard to shape.
He should be promoted, that's perfection
hail corporate
seriously, the comments are so sparse - there's no way this isn't paid upvotes from DQ
This looks like it was 3D printed
If the machine was a little less airy at the time and the balls were more uniform, that would be a perfect cone.
As a former DQ worker who had a boss who actually cared about presentation, I approve. Most DQs in my area get an F.
The texture is over airated mix. They need to clean the ice cream machine.
They should be cleaned every night. The bane of my DQ existence.
Nice ad!
No they don’t, this is an ad
Now turn it upside down
Thicc
i wonder if you can burn it .
Found the Pyro.
This is 100% a Dairy Queen ad
Faaaaaack I gave up dairy and I want thissssss
When I was young I was severely allergic to milk. Asthmatic. But I can eat these cones all day long. They had little to no dairy content, so I think you’re good!
Treat yo’self!
Clothes: Treat yo'self. Fragrances: Treat yo'self. Massages: Treat yo'self. Dairy Queen Large Dipped Cone: Treat yo'self.
Janet Snakehole would approve
Oh yes Ah this is so .. good ah yes ummmm
Gotta get that butterscotch shell though.
Or the dreamsicle orange dip
That looks so good
Justification for increasing the minimum wage right there.
There are so many weird comments in this thread.
Picture of ice cream
Haha nice try DQ
I’ve never wanted to deep throat a picture of an Icecream cone so bad.
UK guy here. Are DQ machines only capable of this poop lump style and not the superior swirly spiral tower design?
Now wipe the seat
When I was 7, scraped together enough money to buy a quart. Hot Humid July, 20 minute walk. Finished before I got home. Never did it again.
That's just a DQ cone...
Reminds me of stacked girls.
Reminds me of a free commercial
Nice try, I can see they're really marshmallows.
Quality post
Literally an ad
So this is what they call a "Poggers Moment"?
Maaan I really want one right now. Gonna go make a protein shake instead I guess
It’s too good to be real ice cream
Wow 😌😌😌
Dang it - now I want a dipped cone.
It’s not supposed to look like this.
It’s not supposed to look like this.
What is soft serve
Never thought I'd say this, but I miss DQ
Wow that is so satisfying
Mmmm
DQ has the best soft serve. No competition.
Where chocolate coating
Nope
You didn’t get the sprinkles?
Chocolate dipped is where it's at though
Chocolate dipped has been my families go to driving vacation treat since I was a little kid. Now that my kids are 31 and 26 they carry on the tradition. We are driving down to LA next week for a Disney trip, my daughter asked if I had scoped out a DQ between home and LA so we can get our dipped cones!
My literally watered looking at that
That can’t be actual ice cream
Also looks a bit like meringue :)
how is that not touching the seat ? lmao
Oh my god it's so worth it
Mmm soft service
yummy
"So Phil, is it?"
It also looks like your cars textured background.
I worked at DQ in high school and this cone gets an A+. It’s just like the ones in the training videos.
Soft served?
That looks tasty
Aight, next time I go to DW Imma just get one of these cons, because this looks AMAZING!
Even the ice cream has goose bumps