Dairy Queen

Dairy Queen's Florida stores average -0.49 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.60 to -0.37), below the county baseline. Rank 5 of 9 other quick-service brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

-0.49vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.60 to -0.37

0.65 vs 1.14raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

114stores in 41 counties, 435 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Dairy Queen is known for soft-serve ice cream and hamburger. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

Relative to the county baseline, first visits of routine inspections. Open circle and * = fiscal year in progress (data as of 2026-11-09). Hover a point for n.

Most-cited violation codes

Citations per 100 routine inspections, Dairy Queen vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 435). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Dairy Queen	Florida	Ratio
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	38.6	46.9	0.82x
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	36.6	39.9	0.92x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	30.8	43.6	0.71x
53	Food management certification valid / Employee training verification	30.6	21.1	1.45x
08	Food protection, cross-contamination	25.7	48.1	0.54x

Outcomes

14.9% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.92% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

96%of 106 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

1 closures of Dairy Queen stores in DBPR's weekly extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06); latest 1 shown. Reasons are DBPR's own wording.
Closed	City	County	Reason (DBPR)
2026-05-12	Fernandina Beach	Nassau	Roach activity

Other other quick-service brands

Ranked other quick-service brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Playa Bowls	-0.80	-0.97 to -0.62	36
2	Cold Stone Creamery	-0.74	-0.84 to -0.64	100
3	Tropical Smoothie Cafe	-0.56	-0.64 to -0.46	216
4	Panda Express	-0.51	-0.61 to -0.40	117
5	Dairy Queen	-0.49	-0.60 to -0.37	114
6	Cava	-0.41	-0.60 to -0.18	31
7	Mission BBQ	-0.29	-0.50 to -0.07	31
8	Captain D's	-0.25	-0.41 to -0.07	35
9	Pei Wei	-0.10	-0.33 to +0.14	34

Look up a single Dairy Queen location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Dairy Queen when its DBPR business name matches the reviewed aliases in InspectLens's brand list. Co-branded units (for example KFC with Taco Bell) are not counted for either brand.