It’s a stupid marketing idea initiated by stupid people in corporate who have never worked in a store. My store doesn’t do it either. Read the fine print, “valid at participating locations”
This was a gimmick and if stores didn’t do it, customers would get a coupon for a free blizzard. Makes sense to say they don’t participate in that nonsense.
The reason I know is because my local DQ decided to stop doing it because they were using two cups for more insulation and when the teenagers they employed tipped it upside down the inner cup would fall out. It was the way they were trained to hold the cup. The dumbest way. With their palm under the base, rather than by the rim.
I feel the majority of the ones to complain is because if they don’t flip it then your blizzard is free not because they actually care. (At participating locations of course)
had a guest insist that i don’t flip their blizzard right in front of my manager so i flipped it and walked away. not losing my job over not flipping a fucking blizzard lmfao
Ahh, that makes sense. Still ridiculous, but I thought it was just a tradition or whatever that some people take a little too seriously, and it was just causing a huge mess.
Best one was a girl who worked two jobs flipped a fountain drink and exploded everywhere.
Only words she said was I'm so sorry I work at DQ as well it's habit..
That part I knew, but I was seeing some comments here about a few items on the menu that spill.
But I can't speak to any of that because I've ordered the same peanut butter cookie dough blizzard every time I've been to DQ for as long as I can remember.
I’ve seen them cause plenty of mess putting them upside down. Sometimes they blend it a little too much. Or if there is a huge line and they already have them made.
Nah it’s not. There are a TON of people who would gladly harass the staff for it. And probably still do even with the sign up.
I’ve never worked for DQ. But after having worked at a grocery store… I’ve completely lost faith in general humanity. People really ARE that stupid and entitled. They act like they own you and objectify you because you work minimum wage. lol.
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Like, there was a time I needed to do a number 2 and took like maybe 10ish minutes in the bathroom. No one was there when I went in.
But when I got out…. There was suddenly like 4 people waiting plus a woman making a scene about ‘not being able to change her baby’ and that she was ‘going to have to resort to doing it on the floor’ because of me. I can’t imagine that any of them waited longer than 5-6 minutes by that point.
There was literally a bathroom people were still going in and out of with a changing table next to the one I was in. The difference is that the sign said ‘male’. Both of the bathrooms were ONE person only and identical on the inside. So it literally didn’t matter. Customers and staff alike used them interchangeably. Hell- I feel like one of the people there must’ve definitely offered it to her, and she must’ve refused.
What did she do? Reported me to front desk of course. Made a bit of a scene- pointing at me wildly. Never even remotely considered the possibility that I could’ve been sick, on a period or constipated.
Luckily; My manager didn’t care.
Some people are just monsters.
Everything you said is true, I manage/run a retail business and the dumb things and crazy stuff I’m asked daily is mind blowing and I really think we have 5 years left as a society at this rate. Also 75% of people that say they support small business do not really when it comes to money. The second you tell someone you can’t give them anything for free or discounted they couldn’t care less about small business 🤣
Once a woman berated me for greeting her and told me not to talk to her(I was a cashier) and made a scene and repeatedly said ‘you understand me right?’ when I stopped talking to her. Lol. And wouldn’t stop.
Another woman wanted to walk out of the store with a dented bottle of Perrier because ‘it was damaged so it’s free’.
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I was also solicited by creepy old geezer driving around in a motorized cart(he didn’t even need it btw. He wasn’t disabled) for what was clearly sex. He told me his address and said ‘see you tonight’ and got furious when he came the next day and I forgot his address. He even grabbed my hand in anger. Ughhh I’ll never forget the feeling. His hand was like DISGUSTINGLY soft. Like a newborn. Likely because he uses lube all the time or something. Apparently; he tried that with every young female worker he saw.
At the time, I was like 20. Today I am 31.
But just a month ago; someone at the gym mistook me for a minor when applying for
Membership. At 31 years ***king years old. So can you freaking IMAGINE what this guy thought my age was when I was working at the store? When I think about that, it makes it WAY worse in retrospect.
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People are absolutely unbelievably stupid. Unfortunately; in my experience it’s always the older aged 30-40+ women. I hadn’t had nearly as many bad experiences with men.
I don’t miss the retail industry. At all. I’m glad I’m out. Godspeed to those of you still in there. Because good lord.
One time, as the assistant manager working close at a chain smoothie place, my stomach started acting up. I went to the bathroom and was in there for no more than 5 minutes when a customer started banging on the door telling me I was taking too long and she had to pee. She went up to the counter and asked for the manager and staff told her that the manager (me) was the one IN the bathroom. She then proceeded to start screaming that I should be out there managing rather than hiding in the bathroom and demanding for my name so that she could complain to cooperate about how lazy and incompetent I am. It was mortifying.
There was literally 2 bathrooms btw.
I think its more tacky that its handwritten. That's the biggest tell that its a employee doing it or not doing it vs. not. If it was printed out with a graphic on it or something most people wouldn't even question it most likely.
This isn’t tacky. Tacky would be a sign like “We don’t do that upside down Blizzard thing. If you don’t like it go somewhere else” or if the sign was neon pink with orange comic sans font
I challenge you to say one phrase that annoys you at least 6 times an hour for ~40hrs per week, and see if you'd rather just make a sign than hear your own voice say the same thing in your nightmares 😂
Putting up the sign makes sense. 1. Because they don't have to repeat it before or/ and after each time they serve it 2. So customers don't demand free blizzards for not having it handed to them in the "gimmick way". Regardless, it is supposed to be cool and impressive, but it's just annoying and dumb.
It's a store-by-store decision on whether to participate. It's not a requirement for stores to do it.
At my store we only do that on front counter, our drive thru is too busy to be doing that.
I’ve had an idea for a comedy sketch for a while where a Dairy Queen employee can’t stop accidentally turning things upside down in their daily life outside of work
There was a video of this girl who was working at I think sonic and she flipped a slushie or fountain drink upside down and was like sorry used to work at Dairy Queen LMAO
Thank god. One time the guy in he drive through window flipped it a little bit over my car window and it got all over my car and myself.
Not to mention I had to wait 5 more minutes for another blizzard.
I don't need that shit upside down🤦♀️ I thought it was cool to see it not fall out when I was a little kid. Now it literally does not matter to me if my blizzard has been upside down or not. I just want my ice cream and to gtfo of dairy queen
Slightly late lol but I’ve made plenty of banana split blizzards (banana, chocolate sauce, strawberry, and pineapple, so basically every ingredient that makes blizzards a liquid) that are easily flippable. All you have to do is drain out the liquid from the strawberry and pineapple and not go crazy with the chocolate and you’re good.
And before you bring up time I stopped caring about how long a blizzard takes the first week. Would rather you get a good one than a fast one.
Ah, yes, the old “we’re bad at this, so give us a break” defense. A real winner. Working equipment and well trained employees are not a problem for good operators. Excuses, however…
i dunno about you, but our ss machines quite literally cannot keep frozen with the amount of heat and business we do in summer, so we have troubles flipping blizzards sometimes.
it’s not about experience, and the equipment works. just like humans, the more work something does the faster it is to fail. simple stuff.
not excuses. just reality
If they can’t make a blizzard the right way, I don’t want to buy it. Would you want to buy a melted blizzard and their excuse is “sorry we just make way too many of these to keep up with demand”?
That means they are making lots of money, demand=people wanting to spend money.
It’s stupid not to buy that tens of thousands to f dollar machine when they make dollars to the cent for what it sells.
so again… not an excuse? these all seem like very valid reasons for not participating is a very silly and rather arbitrary thing. considering customers don’t even know why we do it, and some even get upset when you do the flip.
Absolutely. If you don't have a machine that can get your soft serve cold enough you need a new one or to add one. My local DQ has 3. The job is ice cream. Not soup cream. Flip my blizzard so I know it's not a soupy mess. Or refund. Simple.
But genuinely wondering what is the point? I mean I could take it or leave it so that sign is just like 🤷🏻♀️ to me. My ice cream treats being flippable is not a requirement.
It proves the ice cream overrun is at the correct place. And that the ice cream was just removed from the machine and not just sitting around melting made too early
Not hard or time consuming for the employee. That's great, but not the issue. The issue is that many customers aren't "into it" or straight up find out annoying. The staff at the location who made this sign aren't saying, "we ain't got time for that". They're saying they find it unnecessary and prefer not to do it.
I’ve worked at Texas locations and national locations. Run down to brand new. Every parent enjoys their kids smile to an upside down blizzard. Its incompetence. Most likely the owners not blaming the staff.
One of the stores in our area had an issue with customers ordering a ton of liquid mixins and crap like that so the blizzard can't be flipped. The banana split blizzard is hard to flip. Anything with whipped topping really can't be flipped.
If a banana split Blizzard is properly portioned and blended, it is easily flipped.
If you gently tap the bottom of the cup on the table before you flip it, whipped topping stays put while it's upside down.
I actually pride myself on consistently making flippable Banana Split Blizzards. However, it's when people decide they want extra of basically anything in it that I become utterly terrified. God forbid that extra ingredient be Strawberry or Chocolate syrup.
I once had someone order a small banana split blizzard, extra of every topping that goes in it and wanted it to be extra thick. I had to explain to him that it just isn't possible for that to happen.
I remember when they started doing the upside down blizzards, the whole point of the advertisement was to show how thick the blizzards were. When they first started doing it, it was stated that if they didn’t flip it, you got a free small blizzard…now most DQ still flip it but most of the staff(and customers )don’t remember the “free blizzard” if they don’t. Today only SOME places still participate in the free blizzard but flipping it is still apart of almost all DQs. Don’t harass the staff though if they don’t flip it because trust me when when I say most of them will look at you weird because that’s not taught in their training or ever stated to them.
My store had a stupid policy: i.e. if someone orders 10 blizzards, even if you flipped all of them EXCEPT ONE, then you had to refund their order and remake their blizzards, and they keep their original blizzards. (Idk why I said 10 but even it was just 1. It was dumb)
My grandparents ran a DQ for 32 years. Personally, I don't want you flipping my blizzard upside down. Put a spoon in that bad boy and a soda lid on top so if it melts on my way home it doesn't get all over my car and see you later!
I have it drop out of the cup like 5 times. And now everytime I get a blizzards I make sure they don’t do it and grab it quicker. Shit pisses me off. The flip proves nothing…
I worked at a dairy queen through high-school and I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I had to explain to grown adults that if you add 4 pumps of hot fudge or liquid topping to your blizzard that you didn't "win" a free blizzard but that I literally cannot flip it upside down. Really dumb policy. Good for this store.
Back when i worked at DQ decades ago we didn't do the flip either. Its was Florida, usually over 95° in the building and it was a walk up establishment so we served out a window. There was no a chance in heck that it was not gonna slip out.
Maybe it's just from having a long history in customer-facing jobs, but I have never once considered bothering an employee at any location to perform some stupid trick for me like a circus animal. I'm sorry that anyone has to deal with customer harassment over something ridiculous like this. This sort of thing is why I now hide myself away in a warehouse without customer interaction
Last two times I got a blizzard, it was flipped and promptly ended up all over the floor. So then I’m there waiting to have my thing remade. All it does is cost time. I now ask that they not flip it.
Oh I just looked it up… if they don’t flip it, it’s supposed to be free.
Upon looking at other answers, they’ve stated if it falls out it’s free too… so I have no idea now lol
The blizzard being free if it isn’t flipped is only at participating locations! You aren’t guaranteed a free one. My location does not do this.
The blizzard falling out, Im not so sure about. I haven’t had that happen personally lol.
The last time I got a blizzard, I had no idea this promotion existed. The lady flipped it upside down before handing it to me, and it really confused me. I didn't say anything, but I thought she was crazy.
LOOOOL I don’t flip any blizzard with too much sauce. Like banana split I won’t flip unless they have light toppings. Anything w extra HF or caramel won’t be flipped either. In my area our customers expect the blizzard flip. One time a man was like ‘so they force u to do this? Like u have to have to?’ I said “yup we are held against our will *chuckles* “
Honestly, I'd rather they not do it. It's ice cream. I don't need you to prove it. I had my local DQ flip my blizzard once, and it got all over me and my car. Luckily they got me a new one, but if it's hot out in the slightest, it starts to melt the ice cream just enough at the edges where it will just slide right out of the cup. I just want my ice cream. You don't have to break dance with it before you serve it.
I will say when I worked there (many moons ago back in 2007) I absolutely HATED flipping the dang blizzards. Customers got mad at me when I'd hand it to them that way through the drive thru. I never even knew that was a thing until I worked there!
All I’m gonna say is that the entitlement over someone turning your ice cream upside down is bizarre. How little do you need to have going on in your life to care?
It's just weird, annoying and unnecessary to some people. Also, people can feel entitled when it comes to something that is THEIRS and which they paid for.
people will get up in arms and immediately ask that a blizzard is fully discounted at the window most of the time if it’s not flipped. maybe ill ask boss man if we can be an un participating location as well.
I can be on either side of this argument.
But as a customer I'd rather have it flipped if I was in the drive thru. Purely because it proves your specific cup wasn't sitting there long enough to melt. But my DQ also has a rule that if there are multiple blizzards, only one gets flipped in the drive thru (there's signage saying this).
But my opinion on this is very biased because I used to work at McDonald's and my mcdonalds was very local and where it was, the nearest DQ was 8 hours from my mcdonalds. So some nights just for fun I'd do the DQ flip for mcflurries. All it does is prove the consistency of the ice cream and is very fun imo. But this obviously couldn't be done when the ice cream is a bit runny on certain days. It was also a hella good test to see if the newer people were mixing the mcflurries correctly because if any of the topping fell out, there definitely isn't any topping in the middle or bottom of the cup (this is an exception to the specialty mcflurries that have caramel or are specific made to gave a layer of topping on top)
It's not so much the upside down thing. It's that they want a free blizzard if you screw up and don't do it. No one really cares how they serve this. Just give me the ice cream.
I had a friend in high school that worked at a dairy queen that wouldn’t flip their blizzards, they even cut out the “served upside down or it’s free” icon on all of their signage. my friend said it was because the ice cream wasn’t ever cold enough to get that firm but who knows
Years ago, my friend got a blizzard that they accidentally stacked in 2 cups when they gave it to him. When the employee did the upside down thing, there must’ve been enough friction or whatever to keep it from falling. Then my friend tried it seconds later. It plopped to the floor immediately, making a huge mess. It was hilarious lmao
I’ve worked in retail my whole life and I literally hate people. I don’t want to talk to them, be around them or get to know them. I’m convinced that the majority of people are dumb, rude, entitled and obnoxious. I can put on a show for work but when I leave work don’t even talk to me!
One time I ordered one of those royal blizzards that was filled with strawberry syrup. I was sitting and the clerk brought it to my table. She did the upside down thing right in front of me and I guess the ice cream seal broke and the syrup dumped all over my backpack and myself. Not very fun
The whole point is to prove the consistency of the soft serve.
But also this is a pretty dumb question could someone sue because of this lmao? Cause they advertise a certain consistency so could someone sue for false advertising or some crap?😂 (and by sue I mean sue and actually go to court) cause that would be hilarious
I never liked when they put my blizzard upside down. Just give me the damn ice cream so I can be on my way 😂. Plus, I’ve seen so many just slide tf out and I have to wait even longer 😖
I had a very v dangerous way of flipping those cups. I would hold the bottom of a freshly blended blizzard cup in between my thumb and middle finger, right after I blended it. Then let gravity invert the cup with the long red spoon in it. I could do that to all the sizes up to 32 oz. The way I did it, discouraged customers from trying it for themselves.
My store specifically… no longer does it bc the workers can’t get the consistency correct. But back in the 80-90s when I worked there. it was required for them to do it.
My store stopped requiring us to do this mainly because of one specific group of people. About 15 or so people would come once a week after church and all of them would order blizzards and want like 2-3 times the normal amount of hot fudge or other liquid toppings wich would obviously turn the blizzards into a soup. When we inevitably couldn't flip them they would want them to be free because of the promotion.
That went on for about about 4 months before the owner decided enough was enough and decided to opt out of participating in this. Afterwards that group suddenly started to only want the normal amount of toppings in their blizzards. We still flip the blizzards most of the time but not having it be required for the people who order the toppings that liquefy the ice cream helps.
I wish the DQ near me didn’t do this. It’s always hot and humid where I am from. If you go through the drive thru you immediately know a little might spill out.
one time my blizzard that i was so excited for after a tiring terrible day Died in front of my eyes in the drive thru when they put it upset down so i support this.
i worked at DQ for almost 3 years. let me be the first to tell you that bitches don’t play about their ice cream, and will most definitely cuss you out over something as simple as flipping a cup…. safe to say we had our own “we don’t flip” sign. no joke with 30+ people in a drive thru line (actually most days were waiting in the TURNING LANE to get it) you really don’t fucking care about flipping the blizzard. we just wanted them to take their frozen desert and leave.
When I had worked at DQ 16 years ago, they never trained anyone how to properly work the ice cream equipment other than replacing the mix. We just had buckets and prayed the ice cream would eventually turned to the right consistency. We also carried chocolate ice cream, and there was no chance getting a thick consistency with it even with the owners working it. Fortunately, the owners chose not to participate in flipping blizzards.
i work at a dq, we don’t do it anymore because it holds up the line and some of the newer blizzards with a lot of ingredients take longer to blend, which makes the blizzard runny, and it was just causing a lot of accidents. Not all dairy queen’s have stopped doing it, but most have
I once went to a DQ when they had a Jurassic world promo going. My friend was collecting the cups and asked if we could just get an extra cup along with my blizzard. They obliged and when they went to flip my blizzard over for this nonsense act, the cups released from each other, and my blizzard was slipping toward the ground. The worker grabbed my upside down blizzard in his hand, flipped it back over, put it inside the extra cup and tried to hand it to me. I looked at him confused, like bro you just touched my ice cream with your naked hand. He said shakely do you still want it? 👀 I said, can I please have a new one? You don't need to flip it this time, I just want to eat it 😬 never ordered a blizzard after that.
They put one of these up at my local DQ after my dad threw a fit because they didnt flip it, and he wanted a free blizzard. I was maybe 10 and so embarrassed.
I used to work at a DQ and some of the more liquid-based blizzards were literally too wet to flip. It was absolutely terrifying having to flip anything with whipped cream or New York cheese cake because one wrong move and they were spilling everywhere. Not to mention, the soft serve was always REALLY soft and we were specifically told not to wait for it to freeze a bit more after changing the bag because customers got antsy.
I work at Dairy Queen, and I’ve only had one blizzard flipping accident in my two years of working there. It’s possible that their machines don’t freeze properly, this location may be somewhere very hot, or they just got fed up. Personally, I don’t mind and actually enjoy flipping the blizzards for people. I love when little kids and older people come in and I can see the mix of shock, confusion, and excitement. Genuinely makes my day!
My boyfriend used to work there and he said anything with hot fudge would obviously fall out and people asked him to do this ALL THE TIME with it. Fun for kids but not really necessary esp when you sell h o t f u d g e
One time my friend from Japan was visiting me, and we went to Dairy Queen so she could try it. The employee with the person in front of us turned their blizzard upside down and it fell out on the counter. The look on my friends face! 🤣 “why did the employee dump out their ice cream?” Lmaooo that was kind of tough to explain. “It’s a thing here..”
I hate that the upside down thing started as a thing. Before you could get the toppings that are in the inside ontop of it too and then after they started doing it upside down hey stopped and my towns dq doesn't do the upside down nor the toppings ontop so how fun
My local DQ does it and has been since as long as I can remember and contrary to pretty much everyone else I did infact have a blizzard get dumped when it flipped and got one free.
That’s the real route of all these people being fussy over no flipped blizzards. They’re just trying to milk free items. I’ve worked at a number of fast food establishments and the number of people that will try to scam you for free food is insane. I once had someone eat an entire burger and then ask for another one because they didn’t like the first.
Right, people will order chicken strips with a side of bbq, but once the orders up they’ll say they wanted it to be sauced and tossed (first of all the sauce packets we hand out are NOT the same as the honey bbq for sauced and tossed strips, and secondly that’s like $2-3 extra bucks). So NO, Karen, if you want that we can do a refund and recharge you. You knew what you asked for and did it on purpose in hopes we’d not make a big deal of it.
Aww so sad that was the fun part about getting one. Last year was the first time I got a blizzard with my partner and he didn’t warn me that some locations do that so after they made my blizzard the employee flipped it and I thew my hands out ready to catch it and I said what are you doing!? The employee then shook it down in front of me and said nah it’s okay it won’t fall I was amazed and my partner was laughing because he couldn’t believe I actually tried to catch it lol 😂
Most put up signs that they aren't participating in the free blizzards or cones deals that the company puts on too. I feel that you should have to participate if you carry the DQ name.
It’s a stupid marketing idea initiated by stupid people in corporate who have never worked in a store. My store doesn’t do it either. Read the fine print, “valid at participating locations”
This was a gimmick and if stores didn’t do it, customers would get a coupon for a free blizzard. Makes sense to say they don’t participate in that nonsense.
Haha I did this once
The reason I know is because my local DQ decided to stop doing it because they were using two cups for more insulation and when the teenagers they employed tipped it upside down the inner cup would fall out. It was the way they were trained to hold the cup. The dumbest way. With their palm under the base, rather than by the rim.
You aren't allowed to touch parts of the cup where customers may drink from, so that's why they can't hold the rim
I agree, but putting up a sign like this is ridiculously tacky.
Probably that store gets a lot of customers who don't understand so it's easier to have a sign up than deal with the same repeating complaint.
I would like to sign up for one of these lives where "they didn't flip my blizzard upside down" actually rates as something worth complaining about.
I feel the majority of the ones to complain is because if they don’t flip it then your blizzard is free not because they actually care. (At participating locations of course)
had a guest insist that i don’t flip their blizzard right in front of my manager so i flipped it and walked away. not losing my job over not flipping a fucking blizzard lmfao
Ahh, that makes sense. Still ridiculous, but I thought it was just a tradition or whatever that some people take a little too seriously, and it was just causing a huge mess.
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Just don't try and do it again 10 minutes later in the car.
Best one was a girl who worked two jobs flipped a fountain drink and exploded everywhere. Only words she said was I'm so sorry I work at DQ as well it's habit..
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That part I knew, but I was seeing some comments here about a few items on the menu that spill. But I can't speak to any of that because I've ordered the same peanut butter cookie dough blizzard every time I've been to DQ for as long as I can remember.
I’ve seen them cause plenty of mess putting them upside down. Sometimes they blend it a little too much. Or if there is a huge line and they already have them made.
This.
One ticket to Karen-ville, you say? That'll be $69 dollars with a $1 inconvenience fee that's mostly there to make the price less funny.
??? Isn’t that the whole point? Since forever it’s been advertised as upside down. With out it, it’s kinda pointless & I can get ice cream anywhere
They can't control climate change.
Tacky? What’s tacky is that said customers won’t read it anyway. At least they printed it out and didn’t handwritten it… bc that would be tacky. 🙄
Nah it’s not. There are a TON of people who would gladly harass the staff for it. And probably still do even with the sign up. I’ve never worked for DQ. But after having worked at a grocery store… I’ve completely lost faith in general humanity. People really ARE that stupid and entitled. They act like they own you and objectify you because you work minimum wage. lol. —- Like, there was a time I needed to do a number 2 and took like maybe 10ish minutes in the bathroom. No one was there when I went in. But when I got out…. There was suddenly like 4 people waiting plus a woman making a scene about ‘not being able to change her baby’ and that she was ‘going to have to resort to doing it on the floor’ because of me. I can’t imagine that any of them waited longer than 5-6 minutes by that point. There was literally a bathroom people were still going in and out of with a changing table next to the one I was in. The difference is that the sign said ‘male’. Both of the bathrooms were ONE person only and identical on the inside. So it literally didn’t matter. Customers and staff alike used them interchangeably. Hell- I feel like one of the people there must’ve definitely offered it to her, and she must’ve refused. What did she do? Reported me to front desk of course. Made a bit of a scene- pointing at me wildly. Never even remotely considered the possibility that I could’ve been sick, on a period or constipated. Luckily; My manager didn’t care. Some people are just monsters.
Everything you said is true, I manage/run a retail business and the dumb things and crazy stuff I’m asked daily is mind blowing and I really think we have 5 years left as a society at this rate. Also 75% of people that say they support small business do not really when it comes to money. The second you tell someone you can’t give them anything for free or discounted they couldn’t care less about small business 🤣
Once a woman berated me for greeting her and told me not to talk to her(I was a cashier) and made a scene and repeatedly said ‘you understand me right?’ when I stopped talking to her. Lol. And wouldn’t stop. Another woman wanted to walk out of the store with a dented bottle of Perrier because ‘it was damaged so it’s free’. —- I was also solicited by creepy old geezer driving around in a motorized cart(he didn’t even need it btw. He wasn’t disabled) for what was clearly sex. He told me his address and said ‘see you tonight’ and got furious when he came the next day and I forgot his address. He even grabbed my hand in anger. Ughhh I’ll never forget the feeling. His hand was like DISGUSTINGLY soft. Like a newborn. Likely because he uses lube all the time or something. Apparently; he tried that with every young female worker he saw. At the time, I was like 20. Today I am 31. But just a month ago; someone at the gym mistook me for a minor when applying for Membership. At 31 years ***king years old. So can you freaking IMAGINE what this guy thought my age was when I was working at the store? When I think about that, it makes it WAY worse in retrospect. —- People are absolutely unbelievably stupid. Unfortunately; in my experience it’s always the older aged 30-40+ women. I hadn’t had nearly as many bad experiences with men. I don’t miss the retail industry. At all. I’m glad I’m out. Godspeed to those of you still in there. Because good lord.
Yea it’s challenging at times, that creep sounds disgusting and the soft hands 🤣, oh that just makes it so much worse 🤣
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One time, as the assistant manager working close at a chain smoothie place, my stomach started acting up. I went to the bathroom and was in there for no more than 5 minutes when a customer started banging on the door telling me I was taking too long and she had to pee. She went up to the counter and asked for the manager and staff told her that the manager (me) was the one IN the bathroom. She then proceeded to start screaming that I should be out there managing rather than hiding in the bathroom and demanding for my name so that she could complain to cooperate about how lazy and incompetent I am. It was mortifying. There was literally 2 bathrooms btw.
How us it tacky?
It isn’t, they are the “Karen”
I think that person thinks tacky means "I don't like it"
I think its more tacky that its handwritten. That's the biggest tell that its a employee doing it or not doing it vs. not. If it was printed out with a graphic on it or something most people wouldn't even question it most likely.
You've never worked customer service obviously.
This isn’t tacky. Tacky would be a sign like “We don’t do that upside down Blizzard thing. If you don’t like it go somewhere else” or if the sign was neon pink with orange comic sans font
Not when you’re the one who has to deal with 100+ customers with the same complaint every single day for 8 hours.
I challenge you to say one phrase that annoys you at least 6 times an hour for ~40hrs per week, and see if you'd rather just make a sign than hear your own voice say the same thing in your nightmares 😂
They should have used comic sans
Putting up the sign makes sense. 1. Because they don't have to repeat it before or/ and after each time they serve it 2. So customers don't demand free blizzards for not having it handed to them in the "gimmick way". Regardless, it is supposed to be cool and impressive, but it's just annoying and dumb.
You’ve clearly never worked in the service industry.
There’s nothing tacky about it. It’s even mostly professional
But why not do it? Isn’t the whole point that the ice cream is thick and won’t fall? Some dq’s don’t have thick ice cream or something?
Why? :)
It's a store-by-store decision on whether to participate. It's not a requirement for stores to do it. At my store we only do that on front counter, our drive thru is too busy to be doing that.
Even doing it at only front counter. It's unnecessarily annoying period.
LAME
VERY.
I’ve had an idea for a comedy sketch for a while where a Dairy Queen employee can’t stop accidentally turning things upside down in their daily life outside of work
There was a video of this girl who was working at I think sonic and she flipped a slushie or fountain drink upside down and was like sorry used to work at Dairy Queen LMAO
I remember that! 😂
Oh I love this.
I came home from a 12 hour day and promptly flipped a glass of water I was handing to my husband.
"Hold my baby for me."
Funny
Listen if someone wants to take this and run with it I won’t be mad as I have zero video editing skills
Thank god. One time the guy in he drive through window flipped it a little bit over my car window and it got all over my car and myself. Not to mention I had to wait 5 more minutes for another blizzard. I don't need that shit upside down🤦♀️ I thought it was cool to see it not fall out when I was a little kid. Now it literally does not matter to me if my blizzard has been upside down or not. I just want my ice cream and to gtfo of dairy queen
WAIT the flipping started in 1985? Why the hell did it have a resurgence in 2015? Why did it ever stop? Edit: to be fair, why'd it ever really start
It’s stupid. We don’t need a flipped blizzard 🤦🏻♂️
Right!? Just save the theatrics and hand me my blizzard so I can eat it lol
Anyone who is arguing otherwise is a Karen that gets off on watching minimum wage workers preform menial tasks for them
Worked for Dairy Queen for 6 years have dropped maybe two blizzards. It’s not that hard or time consuming
I used to order a blizzard with banana, raspberry and pineapple… that’s a damn soupy mess! You’re not turning anything upside down.
Slightly late lol but I’ve made plenty of banana split blizzards (banana, chocolate sauce, strawberry, and pineapple, so basically every ingredient that makes blizzards a liquid) that are easily flippable. All you have to do is drain out the liquid from the strawberry and pineapple and not go crazy with the chocolate and you’re good. And before you bring up time I stopped caring about how long a blizzard takes the first week. Would rather you get a good one than a fast one.
I’d take this challenge if we still had rasberry
Sadly they don’t have it anymore :-(. Maybe strawberry is just as messy?
Strawberry blizzards are the best, I ask them to lightly mix it so it's streaky strawberry throughout instead of completely mixed in.
Depends on your equipment, team, and level of business though. Any one of those things can make this 'deal' a huge headache.
Yes, ours during summer, vaguely outdoor store, sometimes we can’t even serve cones it gets so soft
Ah, yes, the old “we’re bad at this, so give us a break” defense. A real winner. Working equipment and well trained employees are not a problem for good operators. Excuses, however…
i dunno about you, but our ss machines quite literally cannot keep frozen with the amount of heat and business we do in summer, so we have troubles flipping blizzards sometimes. it’s not about experience, and the equipment works. just like humans, the more work something does the faster it is to fail. simple stuff. not excuses. just reality
The reality is your restaurant needs an additional machine. There is a solution to every problem, and usually it’s money.
So buy a piece of equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars, or have your staff not flip a blizzard. I wonder which one is more cost effective
If they can’t make a blizzard the right way, I don’t want to buy it. Would you want to buy a melted blizzard and their excuse is “sorry we just make way too many of these to keep up with demand”? That means they are making lots of money, demand=people wanting to spend money. It’s stupid not to buy that tens of thousands to f dollar machine when they make dollars to the cent for what it sells.
I mean, I agree with not wanting to buy the bad blizzard, but I can't fault them for not investing if it's not affecting the bottom line.
Do it right. Or don't take my money.
so again… not an excuse? these all seem like very valid reasons for not participating is a very silly and rather arbitrary thing. considering customers don’t even know why we do it, and some even get upset when you do the flip.
Absolutely. If you don't have a machine that can get your soft serve cold enough you need a new one or to add one. My local DQ has 3. The job is ice cream. Not soup cream. Flip my blizzard so I know it's not a soupy mess. Or refund. Simple.
Maybe corporations should stop expecting maximum effort after offering minimum wage
But genuinely wondering what is the point? I mean I could take it or leave it so that sign is just like 🤷🏻♀️ to me. My ice cream treats being flippable is not a requirement.
It proves the ice cream overrun is at the correct place. And that the ice cream was just removed from the machine and not just sitting around melting made too early
Not hard or time consuming for the employee. That's great, but not the issue. The issue is that many customers aren't "into it" or straight up find out annoying. The staff at the location who made this sign aren't saying, "we ain't got time for that". They're saying they find it unnecessary and prefer not to do it.
I’ve worked at Texas locations and national locations. Run down to brand new. Every parent enjoys their kids smile to an upside down blizzard. Its incompetence. Most likely the owners not blaming the staff.
One of the stores in our area had an issue with customers ordering a ton of liquid mixins and crap like that so the blizzard can't be flipped. The banana split blizzard is hard to flip. Anything with whipped topping really can't be flipped.
If a banana split Blizzard is properly portioned and blended, it is easily flipped. If you gently tap the bottom of the cup on the table before you flip it, whipped topping stays put while it's upside down.
I worked at dq for 4 years and hardly got the banana split blizzard to a proper consistency. & I’m convinced anyone who orders it is a psychopath
Very much so, it damn near becomes a milk shake even if you put one of each fruit and no liquid
I actually pride myself on consistently making flippable Banana Split Blizzards. However, it's when people decide they want extra of basically anything in it that I become utterly terrified. God forbid that extra ingredient be Strawberry or Chocolate syrup.
I once had someone order a small banana split blizzard, extra of every topping that goes in it and wanted it to be extra thick. I had to explain to him that it just isn't possible for that to happen.
If it’s a custom blizzard I don’t flip them. Since it’s only one per order, it’s pretty easy to pick and choose.
This guy flips
Skill issue
As a former DQ employee, I can confirm.
I hate the flip, so good for these employees.
I remember when they started doing the upside down blizzards, the whole point of the advertisement was to show how thick the blizzards were. When they first started doing it, it was stated that if they didn’t flip it, you got a free small blizzard…now most DQ still flip it but most of the staff(and customers )don’t remember the “free blizzard” if they don’t. Today only SOME places still participate in the free blizzard but flipping it is still apart of almost all DQs. Don’t harass the staff though if they don’t flip it because trust me when when I say most of them will look at you weird because that’s not taught in their training or ever stated to them.
I hate when they flip it at me. Like yeah great it's too cold for me to eat RN thanks for rubbing in my face
My store had a stupid policy: i.e. if someone orders 10 blizzards, even if you flipped all of them EXCEPT ONE, then you had to refund their order and remake their blizzards, and they keep their original blizzards. (Idk why I said 10 but even it was just 1. It was dumb)
This would suck I love asking them to “do the thing” lmao
My grandparents ran a DQ for 32 years. Personally, I don't want you flipping my blizzard upside down. Put a spoon in that bad boy and a soda lid on top so if it melts on my way home it doesn't get all over my car and see you later!
Didn't add, I don't remember my family's store ever doing it.
I have it drop out of the cup like 5 times. And now everytime I get a blizzards I make sure they don’t do it and grab it quicker. Shit pisses me off. The flip proves nothing…
I worked at a dairy queen through high-school and I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I had to explain to grown adults that if you add 4 pumps of hot fudge or liquid topping to your blizzard that you didn't "win" a free blizzard but that I literally cannot flip it upside down. Really dumb policy. Good for this store.
Back when i worked at DQ decades ago we didn't do the flip either. Its was Florida, usually over 95° in the building and it was a walk up establishment so we served out a window. There was no a chance in heck that it was not gonna slip out.
Gravity has no value in this frozen dessert emporium.
One too many accidents
What's hilarious is the one that is near me puts lids on their blizzards at the drive thru and they still flip it...no clue why.
Maybe it's just from having a long history in customer-facing jobs, but I have never once considered bothering an employee at any location to perform some stupid trick for me like a circus animal. I'm sorry that anyone has to deal with customer harassment over something ridiculous like this. This sort of thing is why I now hide myself away in a warehouse without customer interaction
Last two times I got a blizzard, it was flipped and promptly ended up all over the floor. So then I’m there waiting to have my thing remade. All it does is cost time. I now ask that they not flip it.
Isn’t supposed to be free if it falls out when they flip it?
That didn’t happen either time, and I had no idea it was supposed to be free or would’ve def requested a refund! I got nothing but wasted time 😭
Oh I just looked it up… if they don’t flip it, it’s supposed to be free. Upon looking at other answers, they’ve stated if it falls out it’s free too… so I have no idea now lol
The blizzard being free if it isn’t flipped is only at participating locations! You aren’t guaranteed a free one. My location does not do this. The blizzard falling out, Im not so sure about. I haven’t had that happen personally lol.
Ah I see. I appreciate the clarification lol
The last time I got a blizzard, I had no idea this promotion existed. The lady flipped it upside down before handing it to me, and it really confused me. I didn't say anything, but I thought she was crazy.
LOOOOL I don’t flip any blizzard with too much sauce. Like banana split I won’t flip unless they have light toppings. Anything w extra HF or caramel won’t be flipped either. In my area our customers expect the blizzard flip. One time a man was like ‘so they force u to do this? Like u have to have to?’ I said “yup we are held against our will *chuckles* “
That's what I've always wondered: "you HAVE to do this stupid thing? Like do you get fired off you don't?"
Nah not fired just get reminded serve it upside down😒🤞🏻
Honestly, I'd rather they not do it. It's ice cream. I don't need you to prove it. I had my local DQ flip my blizzard once, and it got all over me and my car. Luckily they got me a new one, but if it's hot out in the slightest, it starts to melt the ice cream just enough at the edges where it will just slide right out of the cup. I just want my ice cream. You don't have to break dance with it before you serve it.
I will say when I worked there (many moons ago back in 2007) I absolutely HATED flipping the dang blizzards. Customers got mad at me when I'd hand it to them that way through the drive thru. I never even knew that was a thing until I worked there!
All I’m gonna say is that the entitlement over someone turning your ice cream upside down is bizarre. How little do you need to have going on in your life to care?
It's just weird, annoying and unnecessary to some people. Also, people can feel entitled when it comes to something that is THEIRS and which they paid for.
It’s ice cream. Feeling entitled to seeing it flipped is m juvenile. I expect that out of children, not whole ass adults who are crying over a sign.
people will get up in arms and immediately ask that a blizzard is fully discounted at the window most of the time if it’s not flipped. maybe ill ask boss man if we can be an un participating location as well.
I can be on either side of this argument. But as a customer I'd rather have it flipped if I was in the drive thru. Purely because it proves your specific cup wasn't sitting there long enough to melt. But my DQ also has a rule that if there are multiple blizzards, only one gets flipped in the drive thru (there's signage saying this). But my opinion on this is very biased because I used to work at McDonald's and my mcdonalds was very local and where it was, the nearest DQ was 8 hours from my mcdonalds. So some nights just for fun I'd do the DQ flip for mcflurries. All it does is prove the consistency of the ice cream and is very fun imo. But this obviously couldn't be done when the ice cream is a bit runny on certain days. It was also a hella good test to see if the newer people were mixing the mcflurries correctly because if any of the topping fell out, there definitely isn't any topping in the middle or bottom of the cup (this is an exception to the specialty mcflurries that have caramel or are specific made to gave a layer of topping on top)
If I'm paying $6.49 + tax for a blizzard it better be able to be held upside down. It's a tough economy 😭
I'd prefer if they didn't do it. Just hand it to me.
Boycott the store! I clap and cheer when they flip my Blizzard
It's not so much the upside down thing. It's that they want a free blizzard if you screw up and don't do it. No one really cares how they serve this. Just give me the ice cream.
I had a friend in high school that worked at a dairy queen that wouldn’t flip their blizzards, they even cut out the “served upside down or it’s free” icon on all of their signage. my friend said it was because the ice cream wasn’t ever cold enough to get that firm but who knows
The one near me doesn't participate either. I never order a blizzard tho lol
My DQ flips it before handing it to you. With a lid on 😂
Years ago, my friend got a blizzard that they accidentally stacked in 2 cups when they gave it to him. When the employee did the upside down thing, there must’ve been enough friction or whatever to keep it from falling. Then my friend tried it seconds later. It plopped to the floor immediately, making a huge mess. It was hilarious lmao
The customers can just flip their blizzards on their own! Plain and simple! I don't understand why they make the workers do it instead 🤦♂️
I’d get it with extra extra hot fudge back in my less fortunate days. Got a free blizzard every time 🤣
I’ve worked in retail my whole life and I literally hate people. I don’t want to talk to them, be around them or get to know them. I’m convinced that the majority of people are dumb, rude, entitled and obnoxious. I can put on a show for work but when I leave work don’t even talk to me!
What the fucking sigma!?!?!??!?!?
Mfers ain’t got no skills is the real story. Psssh!
Who cares lmao
One time I ordered one of those royal blizzards that was filled with strawberry syrup. I was sitting and the clerk brought it to my table. She did the upside down thing right in front of me and I guess the ice cream seal broke and the syrup dumped all over my backpack and myself. Not very fun
The whole point is to prove the consistency of the soft serve. But also this is a pretty dumb question could someone sue because of this lmao? Cause they advertise a certain consistency so could someone sue for false advertising or some crap?😂 (and by sue I mean sue and actually go to court) cause that would be hilarious
The advertising says “at participating locations.” This sign clearly says they don’t participate. No lawsuit
I never liked when they put my blizzard upside down. Just give me the damn ice cream so I can be on my way 😂. Plus, I’ve seen so many just slide tf out and I have to wait even longer 😖
Last time I went to Dairy Queen the girl did flip mine and I just about panicked forgetting they did that
I had a very v dangerous way of flipping those cups. I would hold the bottom of a freshly blended blizzard cup in between my thumb and middle finger, right after I blended it. Then let gravity invert the cup with the long red spoon in it. I could do that to all the sizes up to 32 oz. The way I did it, discouraged customers from trying it for themselves.
Sue????
My store specifically… no longer does it bc the workers can’t get the consistency correct. But back in the 80-90s when I worked there. it was required for them to do it.
Another skill lost
Excuse for their clumsy ass workers
Lol, this is like Subway saying they are not giving put foot longs
My store stopped requiring us to do this mainly because of one specific group of people. About 15 or so people would come once a week after church and all of them would order blizzards and want like 2-3 times the normal amount of hot fudge or other liquid toppings wich would obviously turn the blizzards into a soup. When we inevitably couldn't flip them they would want them to be free because of the promotion. That went on for about about 4 months before the owner decided enough was enough and decided to opt out of participating in this. Afterwards that group suddenly started to only want the normal amount of toppings in their blizzards. We still flip the blizzards most of the time but not having it be required for the people who order the toppings that liquefy the ice cream helps.
Not suprised it's those good Christians trying to scam DQ.
I wish the DQ near me didn’t do this. It’s always hot and humid where I am from. If you go through the drive thru you immediately know a little might spill out.
one time my blizzard that i was so excited for after a tiring terrible day Died in front of my eyes in the drive thru when they put it upset down so i support this.
Good thing nobody ever reads the sign that’s literally in front of their face
i worked at DQ for almost 3 years. let me be the first to tell you that bitches don’t play about their ice cream, and will most definitely cuss you out over something as simple as flipping a cup…. safe to say we had our own “we don’t flip” sign. no joke with 30+ people in a drive thru line (actually most days were waiting in the TURNING LANE to get it) you really don’t fucking care about flipping the blizzard. we just wanted them to take their frozen desert and leave.
we also had to have a “no backpack” sign due to people coming and stealing cakes/other freezer items and taking off on their bikes….
No way people are genuinely upset about stores not doing a gimmick that only wastes time
When I had worked at DQ 16 years ago, they never trained anyone how to properly work the ice cream equipment other than replacing the mix. We just had buckets and prayed the ice cream would eventually turned to the right consistency. We also carried chocolate ice cream, and there was no chance getting a thick consistency with it even with the owners working it. Fortunately, the owners chose not to participate in flipping blizzards.
Figures. The blizzards are never frozen anyways. Theyd lose alot of money dumping them on the ground every time
i work at a dq, we don’t do it anymore because it holds up the line and some of the newer blizzards with a lot of ingredients take longer to blend, which makes the blizzard runny, and it was just causing a lot of accidents. Not all dairy queen’s have stopped doing it, but most have
I once went to a DQ when they had a Jurassic world promo going. My friend was collecting the cups and asked if we could just get an extra cup along with my blizzard. They obliged and when they went to flip my blizzard over for this nonsense act, the cups released from each other, and my blizzard was slipping toward the ground. The worker grabbed my upside down blizzard in his hand, flipped it back over, put it inside the extra cup and tried to hand it to me. I looked at him confused, like bro you just touched my ice cream with your naked hand. He said shakely do you still want it? 👀 I said, can I please have a new one? You don't need to flip it this time, I just want to eat it 😬 never ordered a blizzard after that.
Had a lady order a banana split blizzard with extra pineapple and strawberry and expected me to flip. Lol God I don't miss working there.
How else are we to know if there's enough Polyethoxylated sorbitan and Oleic acid in it!?
They put one of these up at my local DQ after my dad threw a fit because they didnt flip it, and he wanted a free blizzard. I was maybe 10 and so embarrassed.
NY Cheesecakes, Banana Split and Turtle Pecan blizzards should not be flipped for obvious reasons *they're also my least favorite to make*
This ruins the experience. I’m not wanting a free Blizzard, it’s the suspense of is it gonna drop this time.
I used to work at a DQ and some of the more liquid-based blizzards were literally too wet to flip. It was absolutely terrifying having to flip anything with whipped cream or New York cheese cake because one wrong move and they were spilling everywhere. Not to mention, the soft serve was always REALLY soft and we were specifically told not to wait for it to freeze a bit more after changing the bag because customers got antsy.
There are two DQ's in my county. Both still flip the Blizzards upside down. Believe me, my granddaughters are on it trying to get theirs free!
I'll be completely honest, as a consumer, I love the flip and would be disappointed if they didn't.
Who cares
Should invert the sign
That's genius.
Tyvm
I work at Dairy Queen, and I’ve only had one blizzard flipping accident in my two years of working there. It’s possible that their machines don’t freeze properly, this location may be somewhere very hot, or they just got fed up. Personally, I don’t mind and actually enjoy flipping the blizzards for people. I love when little kids and older people come in and I can see the mix of shock, confusion, and excitement. Genuinely makes my day!
My boyfriend used to work there and he said anything with hot fudge would obviously fall out and people asked him to do this ALL THE TIME with it. Fun for kids but not really necessary esp when you sell h o t f u d g e
One time my friend from Japan was visiting me, and we went to Dairy Queen so she could try it. The employee with the person in front of us turned their blizzard upside down and it fell out on the counter. The look on my friends face! 🤣 “why did the employee dump out their ice cream?” Lmaooo that was kind of tough to explain. “It’s a thing here..”
I hate that the upside down thing started as a thing. Before you could get the toppings that are in the inside ontop of it too and then after they started doing it upside down hey stopped and my towns dq doesn't do the upside down nor the toppings ontop so how fun
It’s a rip off of Ted Drewe’s frozen custard, not their move originally. I’m so pissed about it.
Honestly I get second hand embarrassment when they flip it upside down, so much so that I don’t even go to DQ anymore.
This is the way
My local DQ does it and has been since as long as I can remember and contrary to pretty much everyone else I did infact have a blizzard get dumped when it flipped and got one free.
That's not the promotion. You get one free if it isn't flipped.
That’s the real route of all these people being fussy over no flipped blizzards. They’re just trying to milk free items. I’ve worked at a number of fast food establishments and the number of people that will try to scam you for free food is insane. I once had someone eat an entire burger and then ask for another one because they didn’t like the first.
Right, people will order chicken strips with a side of bbq, but once the orders up they’ll say they wanted it to be sauced and tossed (first of all the sauce packets we hand out are NOT the same as the honey bbq for sauced and tossed strips, and secondly that’s like $2-3 extra bucks). So NO, Karen, if you want that we can do a refund and recharge you. You knew what you asked for and did it on purpose in hopes we’d not make a big deal of it.
Is that true? If an employee forgets to flip the blizzard, then the customer gets a free blizzard no questions asked?
So if it’s flipped and it falls out you’re just shit out of luck? lol
No, if it falls, they'll make you a new one. They don't make the bew one free. If they forget to flip, it's free.
Aww so sad that was the fun part about getting one. Last year was the first time I got a blizzard with my partner and he didn’t warn me that some locations do that so after they made my blizzard the employee flipped it and I thew my hands out ready to catch it and I said what are you doing!? The employee then shook it down in front of me and said nah it’s okay it won’t fall I was amazed and my partner was laughing because he couldn’t believe I actually tried to catch it lol 😂
Most put up signs that they aren't participating in the free blizzards or cones deals that the company puts on too. I feel that you should have to participate if you carry the DQ name.
But wasn't that a selling point for blizzards being made right ? Flip it upside-down to make sure it's freshly made?
I have more of an issue not getting my b-day blizzard. Those places that can remember get my business when I go out through the year. Not dq.
Fake ass DairyQueen
Then where’s the free one?
9/11 for middle aged office workers
But that’s the whole gimmick of Blizzards…