Openings & Closings

A Kansas City area Dairy Queen location of over 30 years has closed

Dairy Queen is expanding with its DQ Grill & Chill locations. The Dairy Queen at 10350 NE Cookingham was opened last July in the Northland by Frank and Angie Lombardo and they are looking for a second location. Half-pound Flame Thrower burger with fries.
Dairy Queen is expanding with its DQ Grill & Chill locations. The Dairy Queen at 10350 NE Cookingham was opened last July in the Northland by Frank and Angie Lombardo and they are looking for a second location. Half-pound Flame Thrower burger with fries. Special to the Star

A North Kansas City Dairy Queen Grill & Chill has closed.

The spot at 615 Armour Road appears to have been shut down for a few days. The location is no longer listed on Dairy Queen’s website and is marked as “permanently closed” on Google.

The location has been open since at least 1994, according to a job advertisement run in The Star that year.

Dairy Queen, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, did not immediately respond to The Star’s list of questions Monday regarding the circumstances leading up to its closure.

The chain has more than a dozen locations in the area, including ones nearby at 5381 NE Antioch Road and 8530 N. Oak Trafficway.

The very first Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Illinois, in 1940. Today, it has thousands of locations across the world.

Its most famous treat, the Blizzard, is blended soft-serve ice cream with a combination of candy and other mix-ins.

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Jenna Thompson
The Kansas City Star
Jenna Thompson covers retail news for The Kansas City Star. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, she previously reported for the Lincoln Journal Star and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she studied journalism and English.
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