[PugMom]

Originally Posted by LowOnCash

Are you guys actually eating ice cream from vendors like DQ - someone has to prepare it by hand put it in a bag Helloo. . .

I'm not ready for that yet !

Mike

helloooooo,...YES, we DO~! and are happy when we can find it

[Inexes@aol.com]

Originally Posted by justjim

A well managed Dairy Queen should have done a good business here in The villages. Obviously, poorly managed.

Not a management problem in this instance. It was very close to Ollie's store and all the Villagers went there instead of Dairy Queen. It was there in 2001 but only lasted a year or two due to it's location. Everyone was intent on supporting a locally owned business apparently. I was very sorry to see it go.

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Rosebud1949

Thought we were to stay at home unless travel was ESSENTIAL. Did someone miss announcing a change in State policy

i gave up the personal quarantine over a week ago, it sounded nuts to begin with. there's only so much a normal person can take when there's a massive govt takeover. never before i have ever remembered shutting down the world over being sick. yes, i'm a doubter, go ahead & start the flame war!

[ficoguy]

Originally Posted by justjim

A well managed Dairy Queen should have done a good business here in The villages. Obviously, poorly managed.

If you like ice cream made with reconstituted powdered skim milk then DQ is for you....their product is cheap to make, labor cost low and mark-up high. That's why Warren Buffet bought it.
Dairy Queen legally can't call its product ice cream. They call it "soft serve" - well, that could be Crisco. The FDA says to be considered an "ice cream" the product must contain "not less than 10 percent milkfat, nor less than 10 percent nonfat milk solids."

[John_W]

Originally Posted by Inexes@aol.com

Not a management problem in this instance. It was very close to Ollie's store and all the Villagers went there instead of Dairy Queen. It was there in 2001 but only lasted a year or two due to it's location. Everyone was intent on supporting a locally owned business apparently. I was very sorry to see it go.

I think the previous poster was referring to the DQ that was at Southern Trace, it's in the exact same building now occupied by Culverts that went out of Business about 2010. It was the one that went out of business due to poor management. I spoke to a waitress at Chilis and she use to work there. Apparently an absentee owner, who had too many young kids working and no one in charge. Same problem with the Krystal Hamburger that went out of business in Leesburg last year. When you ordered, it was like an inconvenience to them to fill your order. BTW, I got a sundae at Ollie's at SS about year ago, and I thought it was terrible.

[RATeasley]

Have you tried Mystic Ice Cream on 466A, East of Colony Shopping Center? I really enjoy their homemade ice cream. It's not the typical soft serve, but it is soft and they have many flavors you don't often find.

[Curtisbwp]

Go to belleview us 301 to the left. Pink building on left

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by PugMom

i gave up the personal quarantine over a week ago, it sounded nuts to begin with. there's only so much a normal person can take when there's a massive govt takeover. never before i have ever remembered shutting down the world over being sick. yes, i'm a doubter, go ahead & start the flame war!

Thanks for letting us know. It's important that all of us understand that there are Villagers who are willing to put others (as well as themselves) at risk to satisfy their own personal needs. Irresponsibility and inconsideration for fellow villagers is alive and well. Yes, in these cases, they do walk among us.

[VillageGuy2019]

Did you get an answer on the location of DQ in Leesburg??

Ed O’Brien

[John_W]

Originally Posted by VillageGuy2019

Did you get an answer on the location of DQ in Leesburg??

Ed O’Brien

Posts #33 and #34 explained it all, I'll summarize.

It's on 27 a little ways past Pizza Hut, right after Popeye's Chicken. It's just north of where Krystal Hamburgers went in three years, and they failed after two years. That stretch of road is not the best, they really should of gone on the 441 side. We'll see.

Google Maps

Yes it's open, I drove by yesterday. Drive through only. I don’t know what their hours are. It is south of 441, on 27.

[RedChariot]

Originally Posted by PugMom

i gave up the personal quarantine over a week ago, it sounded nuts to begin with. there's only so much a normal person can take when there's a massive govt takeover. never before i have ever remembered shutting down the world over being sick. yes, i'm a doubter, go ahead & start the flame war!

How could you be so inconsiderate of the rest of us. It is people like you that will cause the death of we that are high risk. Believe the science. Save a life. Maybe even your own. Social distancing has changed the numbers.

[kathyspear]

Originally Posted by Curtisbwp

Go to belleview us 301 to the left. Pink building on left

???

... for what?

kathy

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by pugmom

i gave up the personal quarantine over a week ago, it sounded nuts to begin with. There's only so much a normal person can take when there's a massive govt takeover. Never before i have ever remembered shutting down the world over being sick. Yes, i'm a doubter, go ahead & start the flame war!

bait!

[delima2000]

I can’t believe all of the negative answers. I just asked a simple question and all go nuts thinking I’m not,staying in. You are probably the ones I see waiting in the parking lot taking to people before you go golfing or hanging around lake Sumter socializing without social distancing. Never again will,I ask anything on this site I’m done.

[bpascani]

If you go to Mt. Dora, check out One Flight Up. Not sure if they are open now, but, it's worth checking out. Tell Roger that Barbara Patterson sent you!