Our Mission
“To create positive memories for all who touch DQ.”
We are a family of eight DQ Grill & Chill locations in Southwestern PA. Serving Brownsville, California, Centerville, Connellsville, Greensburg, Mount Pleasant and Uniontown.
Our History
In 1938, near Moline, Illinois, J.F. McCullough and his son, Alex, developed the delicious dairy product millions have come to know as Dairy Queen® soft serve. The McCulloughs’ innovation was the beginning of today’s system of over 6,000 Dairy Queen® and Dairy Queen® restaurants in the United
States, Canada, and many other countries in Europe, Central America, the Far East, and the Middle East.
The McCulloughs arranged to test their new product in an ice cream retail shop in Kankakee, Illinois, owned by Sherb Noble. Noble held an “All You Can Eat for 10 Cents Sale” one August afternoon. More than 1,600 people lined up to try the new treat, and the McCulloughs knew they had an exciting business opportunity. All they needed now was an efficient way to dispense their soft serve product – and they soon located a freezer, invented by Harry Oltz of Hammond, Indiana, which could produce a continuous flow of the product.
J.F. McCullough often referred to the cow as “the queen of the dairy business.” Thus, the Dairy Queen® name originated. The first Dairy Queen® restaurant, owned by Noble, opened in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.
Our Core Values
Lynn Dairy Queens, Inc. is a Christian based company where you will find our philosophy of serving others, as well as the way we treat each other, to be representative of this. Our values include:
- Uphold Integrity
- Foster Teamwork
- Deliver Service
- Promote Growth
- Appreciate Heritage
- Embrace Change
- Support Community