


Two employees have been trained as cake decorators. They combine baked cake with the soft-serve and can be decorated however a buyer wants. One featured line of products is ice cream cakes. She said the new store is Dairy Queen's latest concept. While the 2,100-square-foot building will seat 50, it is 400 square feet smaller than the Minden location. The Carson Dairy Queen is focused more toward drive-through sales, she said. All the employees are new, but 10 of them worked in the Minden store for a while to get familiar with the operations. She said opening the Carson store has been fairly easy. "We bought this land, though we're leasing the land for the Minden store." Finally, the company chose this one," she said. "We looked at at least seven different sites over the years. But finding the right store location was a problem, she said. "Carson City was supposed to be the first," Kathy said, and they moved their family to Carson from Southern California. A few years later, they bought the existing Dairy Queen on Prater Way in Sparks. They built one in Minden in 1993 in what would become Ironwood Center. The Dairy Queen at Highway 50 East and Airport Road, in front of Long's Drugs, is the Boeches' third. were making sure all the stock and equipment were set up for the opening.Īnd a selection of ice cream cakes, Peanut Buster Bars and four varieties of Dilly Bars, DQ's signature round flavor-dipped frozen bar, were stocked in display freezers by the entry. A couple of supervisors from Dairy Queen Corp. Kathy was busy Thursday drilling some of their 45 new employees on taking orders and using the registers. Hankering for a Dilly Bar? A Parfait or a Blizzard?Īs of 10 this morning, when Dairy Queen franchisees Steve and Kathy Boeche throw open the doors of their newest restaurant, the whole range of DQ treats can be had without crossing county lines.
