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.