Dairy Queen Grill & Chill — Restaurant in Millwood

(Long read,my apologies) I have loved DQ since I was born, it was a special treat after my mom would pick us up after swimming at the Sunnyside Park in town, it was right across the street on the corner. Best ice cream, omg the peanut buster parfait, extra hot fudge and peanuts, I'm pretty sure Angels from heaven brought the hot fudge, just amazing. Anyway, I gave someone a ride about a week ago and followed a couple friends of his in a motorhome they just got because it hadn't been licensed yet, and dropped him off with them at that destination and was giving $10 for gas even though it might have only been about a mile give or take a few inches, and well as I was driving back to my spot, bam!!!!, there it was , The Dairy Queen in all its glory, so I said to myself, "Eric? You should treat yourself to DQ" so I pulled into the line at the drive through window and at the last minute I said"large butterfinger blizzard with extra butterfinger. I would switch between that and peanut buster parfait because they would be packed with the butterfinger goodness. So I get to the window, and it was fifteen cents short if ten dollars, and thought, it's ok, they're so damn good, it'll be worth it. She goes to hand it over and does the upside down trick they do, and I'm so excited I couldn't remember how to park, well I figured it out after a couple bites. But then I was trying to find the butterfinger. I mean it had some in it, almost like they used one of mini tiny ones that are smaller from the fun size. So then I thought, well maybe all of the goodness is at the bottom cuz it didn't get mixed well because around 30 minutes till they closed, and rarely ever send my food back and take the chance of it having been spit in or anything. Have any of you seen the movie road trip, a national lampoons movie with Tom green and stiffler, and DJ Qualls, the little skinny guy. Anyway, he sent back his food cuz it wasn't the way he ordered it, and the cook took the bread, well I'm way off the reservation right now, so as I was saying it didn't have the amount of butterfinger it should, and the ice cream wasn't soft and creamy smooth like it has for about a hundred years. I wasn't even a little bit impressed, especially for the amount of money it cost, but Safeway is in the same lot, so I pulled up at Safeway and go in and buy two Butterfingers and made it right, smashed them on my center council wacked the sh+t out of them, candy flying out of the end from doing so, but I couldn't believe the difference in the ice cream. Long story short, it sucked, and I think if customer pays almost $2 extra, to get extra, it should have extra. Idk where it all went so wrong, but I still don't know why it got to me so bad, probably cuz I've always been on fluffy big boned side, and it always held such good memories, maybe they just had an off night, a technical issue, or poor training or a worker that hates their job, feeling like they're better than flippin burgers and all that, they are more important than they know, and they are paid well. Some people will probably say something like, "why are you making such a big deal of it?" Well because of the joy it gave this fat kid and many, many others, and that ten bucks was the last bit of money was all I had. Honestly I should have put that in gas, but I wanted to treat myself because it has been a long time since the last time. And one other thing, I hate giving a bad review? And it's not really bad, it's more of a question, like what is going on? We're paying huge prices for everything and just want to go to the places we have always went that out good feels, there's so much craziness and hard times right now, can escape it all for a little bit, and eat Dairy Queen and go out and pet the unicorns before they step back down...

Updated 6.1.25: My last review was 4 stars but today's review is 2 stars at best, averaging 3 stars. I'll just preface by saying today's review is not based on service. We went through the drive-thru and service was good. The 2 star review is based solely on the new Superman Blizzard. I love cake batter so when I saw the Superman considered of: vanilla soft serve mixed with sugar cookie dough, cake batter flavor, and sprinkles--I definitely wanted to try it. Boy, was I disappointed. The picture showed the Superman with a rich blue color and I got barely any blue color, which is probably why my blizzard tasted like plain vanilla with cookie dough and sprinkles. No cake batter flavor whatsoever, not even a subtle hint. Super disappointed and unfortunately won't be trying it again. It just wasn't for me.

2.8.24: Stopped in for a quick lunch while running errands in town and ordered the 4-piece Chicken Strip meal with a chocolate shake. The chicken was tender and not overly fried or tooth breaking crunchy, the fries were perfect, and my favorite Texas toast was nice and buttery. What I love about the traditional chocolate shake from Dairy Queen is that you can actually drink it without having to use a spoon and it's milk chocolatey and not too rich. Perfect consistency and flavor to go with a meal without feeling it's a meal in itself. Service was great and was even brought out to our table. It wasn't busy and I enjoyed a quick...

These idiots get our orders wrong 9 out of 10 times, and we have gone here ten times total. Today was the last straw, I clearly ordered a butterfinger blizzard and the child at the window was so concerned about holding the blizzard upside down in front of me, I did not notice it was the wrong flavor, as I was confused why he was handing me my ice cream upside down. I questioned why he was doing his, and his reply WAS, "I don't fuc#&@! Know, now I need you to sign this receipt and move it along, we are busy tonight and I don't have time for questions." Completely stunned at the odacuous reply, I didn't double check the blizzard. To my horror, when I returned home, it was Oreo, which causes severe migraines and nausea. I called to speak with the manager of the store, and his reply was, "I don't have time to deal with lying cheats trying to scam free chicken out of us. Go and pull your con on McDonald's, because we ain't buying it."

I did not even order chicken, why would I scam them out of a free chicken box? After a twelve and a half hour day at work, I went home empty handed as I can't consume Oreos. Not to mention, they charged me $17.95, instead of $7.95. Obama must be in charge of Dairy Queen now a days, because it's as bad as the state...