Dairy Queen celebrated Free Cone Day on Tuesday, March 15. The company celebrated the all-day event to mark the end of winter and also the start of summer a few months early, while raising money for charity.
Throughout the day, participating non-mall Dairy Queen and DQ Grill & Chill locations across the U.S. served fans a free small vanilla soft-serve cone with the signature curl on top.
Dairy Queen will collect donations for Children's Miracle Network hospitals, which raises funds to help save and improve the lives of kids treated at 170 children's hospitals across the U.S. and Canada.
The donations collected during the day-long event will stay in the communities in which they are raised to support local kids at area CMN hospitals.
In 2015, Dairy Queen raised a total of $140 thousand while more than 1,330 cones per store were served during Free Cone Day.
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based International Dairy Queen or IDQ is the parent company of American Dairy Queen Corp. IDQ is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which is led by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
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