I was riding my bike by here and it was hot so I treated myself to a large peanut buster parfait. Loaded with peanut butter and chocolate. Incredible. Server was very nice today. The store is clean looks new and with plenty of parking and nice tables in back with shade. Most highly recommended. read more

Dairy Queen Store - Peanut parfait sundae wow? - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Wilmington, North Carolina

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They handed our 12 person order with no issues. We ate outside and there is no real seating but just felt good to eat outside under the DQ sign. Everyone loved their Blizzard and I had the classic Dilly Bar which is the perfect dessert. We will be back next year! read more

Dairy Queen Store - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Wilmington, North Carolina

Don't go here got a sundae made wrong next a no carmel would not fix. Terrible employees

What the hell, it's Dairy Queen! People waiting in line to get that stuff. Ice cream and ice cream.

If you ever been to Dairy Queen and enjoyed it, this won't disappoint! Always good and nice people working. read more

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I only came here because my mom wanted ice cream. She ordered a hot fudge sundae and my son ordered a brownie Oreo confection. The brownie thing was 720 calories and it wasn't even that big. All that stood out to me here is all of the artificial flavoring they use. Everything was purple or some unnatural color. Nonetheless, my mom enjoyed her soft serve and my son didn't say anything great. The service went fast and the lady was nice. There is ample parking a small area to sit outside and eat behind the building. read more

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Great spot with really friendly and happy staff. They have plenty of parking around and in the back, which has two picnic tables for outside seating on a nice day. read more

Dairy Queen Store - Oreo sundae - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Wilmington, North Carolina

Don't get me wrong I love me some Dairy Queen but I didn't like the way a worker talked to me the last time I went there. I went on a Sunday, it was kind of busy and I ordered a small M&M blizzard. I stepped away from the window so other people order as well since that seemed to be what was going on at the other window. About five minutes later my ice cream was called and I walked up to the window to grab it when the worker very rudely said "next time just stay at the window". Even though I didn't like this experience it probably won't stop me from coming back to this location again. I just hope I have a better interaction with the workers next time. read more

no one was there yet took an absurd amount of time to prepare two small pumpkin pie blizzards. one of which was not full and the other was overflowing next time someone who isn't a complete imbecile read more

Late night ice cream! Everything else was closed and decided on the OG! Dairy Queen! Cool spot, wish they had benches to sit at. It seemed like the whole town stopped by when i got there so there was a long wait. They were prepared tho, with 4 employees so the line moved fast. Nothing special about this place, nor nothing wrong. We enjoyed our ice cream. read more

Dairy Queen Store - Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Near Me - Wilmington, North Carolina

This location needs to take a serious look at who they are hiring. I have never been treated so poorly. I completely understand business hours and was there prior to closing. The young man who helped asked if it was okay to serve and all agreed. Then my little girl and I were subject to the most passive aggressive behavior. The two female employees were talking loud enough where we could hear and were using explicit and vulgar language to describe me and other customers that walked up after me. This continued the entire visit and before leaving one of the employees thought it was a good idea to get in her car and race around the tiny parking lot revving her engine repeatedly while dropping F*bombs while other people were pulling in. All these employees cared about was leaving early and letting everyone know how disgusted they were to still be at work. I am completely disgusted at this encounter and will ensure that I tell anyone and everyone about the way me and my family were treated. It is unfortunate that you leave a place and have to explain to your child, why someone was using language like that at a business. If you go to this establishment make sure you don't show up any where close to closing time. You will get the wrong things and told they are right and you get to hear some pretty colorful language and possibly see a car race. My advice take your money somewhere that appreciates the customer!!! read more

This Dairy Queen closes before its closing time. We arrived at 7:50 and there were 2 cars in front of us that ended up leaving Bc they were not getting service. I told my boyfriend we would not back down Because I was really craving a blizzard. The lady at the window looked at us and straight up ignored us. read more

I have been to several Dairy Queens throughout the south. I fell in love with the DQ in the early 70's as an employee in high school. I have to say, the Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive in Wilmington, NC is the worst when it comes to customer service. Not only poor service, but they are scared they are going to go over a smidgen on the ice cream. I asked them to add a little more and I would pay for it but the rude young man with the blonde curly hair said he would have to make an entire new banana split if he added any ice cream to it. I had not even gotten it yet. This is not the first time this has happened at this location. I stop at the Dairy Queen in the Clayton area every time I'm in that area. Always great customer service and the serving of ice cream is plentiful when I order a banana split. In other words, I pay for ice cream and toppings instead of just toppings! I very seldom ever give a review of any business less than a three. But when a young teenage man that is young enough to be my grandson shows me disrespect and smarts off at me when I ask for just a smidge more of ice cream to go on my banana split, the business deserves a 1-star rating. I have never seen the owner at this location in my 33 years in Wilmington. It appears the training of staff should be a little more closely monitored along with a lesson in respect for the customer. One upset Grandma Gonnie! read more

I haven't been to a DQ in years! Boyfriend wanted a blizzard, so we came here. It's one of the old ones were you walk up to it and order. There were only two other people who had ordered and were waiting. The girl working behind the counter was very nice. The blizzard came out a few minutes later. While it was a bit smaller than my boyfriend remembered it being, he still enjoyed it immensely. If you're craving a blizzard from DQ, this is the place to go. read more

This Dairy Queen is awesome & always have been! The ice cream is fresh along with strawberries!

"We want DESSERT" "Where you wanna go?" "DAIRY QUEEN" If McDonalds defines Amercian fast comfort food, Dairy Queen defines American fast comfort dessert. After all these decades of seeing new ice cream places come and go....Dairy Queen is still around....dumpy 50's look in a old Levi's chic way. Most of their stores look like one of those 50's ice cream trucks that broke down and they made a store around it in a parking lot. The faded and eclectic assortment of signs that advertise each flavor and variation make the place look like its ready for demolition to make way for the next freeway. Yes, they don't have the Moca Java Pina Colada Tropical Fruit Green Tea German Chocolate Crunch flavor you find in today's boutique establishments. They don't look fashionable or "in" with todays operating room sterile look. But their soft serve is still on the creamiest, full bodied ice creams around. It's very basic but a great foundation to build shakes, sundaes, chocolate dipped cones, banana splits, and blizzards (their version of the mixin's). The best part of Dairy Queen is that they taste all the same across the country. I've known some very wealthy people that seek out Dairy Queens while on travel for a quick snack. I challenge anyone in the Generation X or Yuppie age groups to compare Dairy Queen soft serve ice cream to any ice cream chain. read more

Worst customer service and Dairy Queen I've ever been to in my life. Actually went as far as to contact Corporate after our "visit" for the now second time. We went here about 30 mins to close a few weeks ago. We live about 35 mins away. So one and hour ten minutes in total of driving both times to deny our service both times. It was the same young male employee both times. He already cleaned the ice cream machine that made the swirl cones and refused to give us the ice cream we came for because, as he stated, it would require him to clean the machine all over again. We left without any ice cream and drove another 35 minutes home pissed off and highly disappointed. We tried again today about 45 minutes to close and same kid said the same thing. We literally were like are you kidding me?!? Surely you have to make an exception as you denied us it last time and again we drove 35 minutes to get there. Nope!! He and the other worker said they would not be cleaning the machine again and practically laughed at us. Nowhere on menu or website does it say it is a limited menu an hour before close. This is unacceptable and wasted two hours of our time. HORRIBLE! Do yourself a favor and go anywhere else. They could care less about their customers. All the employees care about is themselves clocking out. read more

My Mom and two Aunts LOVE ice cream. They were in town visiting when the Dairy Queen on Oleander made their vacation turn sour instead of sweet. The assistant manager was helping my aunt. Her service with a smile was apparently out of order this afternoon. Even after buying a total of ten items from Dairy Queen, she quickly turned down my Aunt's request for a cherry on top. She said there would be an extra charge. The employee finished the order by putting spoons in the desserts. We told her we would prefer lids and she agitatedly took the spoons out to find lid replacements. I can honestly say no one smiled once. We were really happy when we arrived but left feeling like an inconvenience. Thankfully the blizzards were good. read more

This is a very subpar Dairy Queen. It made me question the requirements to be a franchise owner. There were embarrassing spelling mistakes on the homemade menu. (Yes they have a homemade menu!) the ice cream is fine, but the ratios are obviously way off - too be clear I watched things get mixed that weren't even measured just eyeballed. I got a blizzard that basically ended up being a syrup pretty much. Overall pretty disappointing. read more

I don't believe the people who work in the building know how to measure the portions of toppings and syrup etc. I ordered a cookie dough blizzard but it really lacked chunks of cookie dough. While the ice cream was very good there was just a major lack for the price. Wouldn't recommend try a different location read more

This place was awful this time around. None of the customers were wearing masks. There was no official line. Masks are required by the NC governor. I will not be going back in 2020. read more

For the price that you pay its just not worth it any more when you have places like fuzzy peach and the plethora of frozen yogurt places around with ten times more options, and fresher ingredients. The brownie sundae has prepackaged little so called brownie muffins that go in it (that I feel should be heated up), and the caramel syrup that was used on it was an EXTREMELY salty syrup!! They didn't use the right syrup! read more

This is an old school DQ no burgers and fries just ice cream, which in my opinion is the way it should be. Have been here a few times and have enjoyed it everyone was pleasant and enjoyed it. The last 2 times we went they had no chocolate ice cream ( both times around 3 pm) the first time we assumed they just ran out the second time (the next day) I asked if they had run out of product or just not going to make it any more the response from the charm school graduate behind the counter was "no we ain't out of it we just don't have it" I was a little confused so I asked is it a seasonal thing the response from the girl behind the counter who by the way was wearing an absolutely filthy uniform was " look I'll make chocolate when the boss man says to make it" so we left for the second time not purchasing anything (hey we like chocolate sorry). To the "boss man" please your employees who I have found friendly and helpful in the past not so much the last 2 times and for a while our last time. read more

This location has been here forever. The employees really have their stuff together, ie attentive, friendly, and produce a consistent product. We will support them in the off-season. read more

I was looking for the closest location and saw all the negative reviews, so I figured I'd help them out! Went at about 9:30 on a Friday night. One window was closed, two people were in line ordering at the other window. We had only stood in line for about 30 seconds when a worker opened the other window and took our order. Just ordered a small Oreo cheesecake blizzard. He had it ready in just a couple of minutes. There was TONS of cheesecake pieces inside. The area is a little sketchy at night and isn't lit very well, but the employee we interacted with was super nice and made the best Oreo cheesecake blizzard I've had in years, or maybe ever! read more

This is a great dairy queen, like many others, and has great blizzards. A great place to stop to get some icecream. No drive-thru, but no long wait either. read more

I have been going to this DQ since I moved to Wilmington and this has got to be the worst DQ experience I have ever had in my entire life. The staff is extremely rude and ghetto. I was served by a girl named bri and she has got to be the worst employee in any food service industry. For one she was extremely rude and arrogant. Second of all I don't know if it isn't proper training or what but the blizzard I ordered wasn't even blended properly in the bottom half of the cup. Also there is no seating whatsoever except in the back there are a few disgusting wooden tables, and if you go there after dark there isn't even a light for those putrid tables. This place was much better in past years. I didn't recognize any of the familiar and friendly employees that have been working there in the past. It must be a change in management in these last few months because this used to be my favorite place to go to now I will never go back. read more

Only giving it a 2 star because I love their ice cream. Otherwise? Their incredibly slow pace and RUDE staff are just not worth it. It's not just this one time, either. I always give multiple chances and everyone is always so mean and unwelcoming. I would much rather go to cookout to be treated better. My boyfriend loved DQ and Is incredibly respectful and understanding (we work in a restaurant) but even he made a comment about their attitudes. If you're having a bad day, you do NOT take it out on your customers. We will be going to the downtown location from now on. read more

We love this DQ. It is always good and the service is always wonderful. Everyone has a smile on their face and very friendly. We always get an Oreo blizzard, yum! read more