Dairy Queen — Restaurant in Marshalltown

I gave this DQ a 4 star over 3 years ago. I am now editing it to 2 stars. We've been here a few times to get blizzards in the past few months. Not once were they completely blended. It's like they put your topping on the ice cream and blend it into the top 3rd of the cup. The bottom ⅔ is just plain vanilla. Bring it to about 2 weeks ago and we went specifically to get the Pumpkin Pie Blizzard, as it was something we used to always get with my grandma... Save yourself the money!! It was AWFUL! It tasted like someone just dumped a ton of nutmeg on some vanilla ice cream and threw in a few little pieces of plain pie crust as an after thought 🤦🏼‍♀️ It used to have chunks of ACTUAL Pumpkin Pie in it. Not anymore. It tastes awful, so definitely don't waste your money on this. Make it at home in your own blender, with...

Food was on par for Dairy Queen. Only went through drive through so don't know how the inside was. We were handed the wrong order initially, and it took a few minutes for them to realize we were still at the window. We handed the food back, and they immediately came out to hand it to another patron who had pulled up. We could have tampered with that food and nobody would have known, and they still handed it out to someone else. In total, we sat at the window for approximately 10 minutes waiting for our food, which was a single meal. It was piping hot which is a good sign but seeing how they treated the other customer's order does not install confidence in this location's...

I ordered 3 footlong chili dogs and a large blizzard (don't judge hadn't eaten all day). Anyways i got the blizzard very quickly. As it melted i waited for the chili dogs. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. Took forever was wondering if the ground the hot dogs on site. Maybe they needed to raise the pork beef and chicken... wait no beef....funally got the food and it wasn't too bad. The blizzard, however, was mostly melted due to waitng so long to get my food. A gentleman waited 7 minutes for a cup of coffee while i waited for food. Hmmmmm think they need to hustle a bit and wait to had out blizzards so...