The New Dairy Queen Grill and Chill restaurant off McKeown Avenue next to Canadian Tire in North Bay officially opened this weekend.
"We opened our doors on late Friday afternoon," Tony Watters, Director of Franchise Development with Dairy Queen told BayToday on Monday morning.
He says this restaurant will be very different from the two traditional Dairy Queen locations that focus primarily on frozen snacks.
“It will be the Grill and Chill so you will get your burgers and your chicken strips plus all of the frozen treats Dairy Queen is known for,” explained Watters in an email in late 2019.
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“Now you will see a second kitchen with a grill being added. Dairy Queen’s development strategy switched a few years ago to focus more on restaurants and the restaurants that we are building these days, they are Grill and Chills.”
Watters estimated the new restaurant has created roughly 50 to 70 full-time and part-time jobs.
