Dairy Queen Grill & Chill — Restaurant in Calhoun

BEWARE.

I normally frequent this DQ for its food quality and good service. Today was not the same. I was here last maybe a month or so ago, and my driver to come back was the seasonal cotton candy blizz. It's been my favorite since its initial release way back when.

I tried to swing by yesterday at 8pm sharp to find a closed building. I came back today a bit earlier to sit in line for 20 minutes, get my cc blizz wrong. Lobby is closed, so I sit in drive thru another 20 mins and what I'm told at the window is "yeah, we've been out of cotton candy so we've just been adding sprinkles". My friend, sprinkles and cotton candy may both be made of sugar but one includes wax and does not give the correct flavor profile. It's also texturally lacking. Why in the world would you not have told me that when I ordered, like any other place does???

There are now 4+ people, all pretty young, congregating at the window over my "problem" and legitimately not understanding what the issue is. Karenize me all you want, but if I'm going to pay $4 for a small icecream from somewhere I had to go out of my way for, I would've gone to Sonic (who is closed equally as much).

One of the girls comes forward with a cup of naked icecream and tries to hand it off to me with a big smile saying, "I thought you just didn't want the sprinkles so I just made it like this. It tastes the same." No. Just no. I didn't ask for that. Resources have been wasted after I've already asked for a correction or substitute. The window closes and raucous laughter ensues.

These kids need to be taught some proper window-service etiquette, no matter how long they're slated to work there. Additionally, for how many people I've seen in there with a shut down lobby, why were all orders taking 10+ minutes per car?

FYI, I've been in food service and these things would...

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