Restaurant Transitions

New Dairy Queen in central Arkansas sees record-breaking business on opening day

The Dairy Queen that opened Friday at 1000 W. Main St., Cabot, opened to what its owners, Blake and Gracie Lively of You Scream Holdings, LLC, say was DQ-record-breaking business -- the most transactions in one day and a worldwide DQ record for highest one-day sales, and "outpacing all 7,000 DQ stores in the company's 78-year history," according to a news release.

Fans, they say, started camping out on the restaurant patio at 7:30 p.m. the previous day to receive one of 100 tickets for free Chicken Strip Baskets for one year with the purchase of a DQ cake on opening day.

The Livelys and their company also own Dairy Queens in Sherwood and Little Rock and are planning a fourth central Arkansas store by the end of 2018.

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