Type of Food: Ice Cream

Interesting Fact: Baskin-Robbins has created over 1,000 flavors since 1945.

History: Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins were brothers-in-law (Burt married Irv’s sister, Shirley, in 1942). In 1945, Irv Robbins opened Snowbird ice cream shop in Glendale, California. A year later, Burt Baskin opens Burton’s ice cream shop in Pasadena, California. In 1948, Burt and Irv’s stores grow to a chain of six stores and the founders decide to sell their first licensing agreement, pioneering the first franchise business in the ice cream industry. Read more about the history here. Today Baskin-Robbins has over 2,700 store locations in the U.S. and over 2,800 internationally.

Website: www.baskinrobbins.com

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Type of Food: Ice Cream, including a wide selection of ice cream cakes (logs). Some locations offer burgers and fries as well.

Interesting Fact: Texas has the most DQ restaurants with more than 600 locations.

History: The first Dairy Queen outlet was opened by Sherb Noble in Joliet, Illinois on June 22, 1940. DQ was an early pioneer of food franchising, with less than 10 stores in 1941 it quickly expanded to almost 1500 in less than ten years. Already by 1955, there were 2600 stores. Today, the Dairy Queen system is one of the largest fast food systems in the world with more than 5,700 restaurants in the United States, Canada and 22 foreign countries.

Website: www.dairyqueen.com

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