Ive been coming to this place for years and its been great every time! Though when I went this time, the new employee got my order wrong, which was fine! The manager however, tried to push the wrong item on me, which wasnt appreciated, then seemed to fuss at the employee who took our order, unacceptable. In food service, mishearing/misunderstanding the customer happens, especially if youre new and unfamiliar with things. But i found the old lady that seemed to be the manager made a big fuss about it in front of my girlfriend and I, which was totally unnecessary and inappropriate! Wrong orders happen all the time in food services. And instead of making and unnecessary deal out of it or trying to push an item i didnt want onto me, she should have just said sorry and moved on! Again, great staff, just disrespectful management. Hopefully in the future, management will actually try to be helpful towards their staff rather than be pushy and rude. Again this review has nothing to do with the amazing staff working or the ice cream (which is always amazing), but simply how i saw this manager treat her staff, completely uncalled for! The new kid who took our order was so sweet and polite and i hope he knows that he was doing a great job, as well as the girl who remade my ice cream!

A novelty Dairy Queen for sure. Usually gets pretty crowded on pleasant summer nights, however, the community makes this place better. Lots of good memories sitting on the tailgate, enjoying blizzards and talking to locals!

Wonderful experience Everytime.Long lines, yes.... But they move quickly and accurately.Dont skip because of the lines! They move fast!!

Love the choco brownie extreme. The service was great

Took my grandson for a treat! The people working wasnt as sweet as our ice cream. Place has been there for years.

Enjoyed the milkshake. The service wasnt bad either.

Best Dairy Queen location. They are very consistent in how their ice cream prepared and service great.

My husband and I have been coming to this DQ for over 5 years. Today, 7/11/21, we experienced the rudest, meanest, unhappy redhead ever at this location. We may give circus hall of cream for ice cream with a smile next time.

Love. Love. LOVE this place. The people were friendly and the ice cream as usual was the best!

The ice cream was delicious and Elvis Presley was in front singing it was pretty awesome .

I get the same thing I always get everytime I go to Dairy Queen so I know how it should taste like every single time. Unfortunately this time I get my usual New York strawberry cheesecake and no offense to the little lady but it was made wrong. The ice cream was more gramcracker than it was ice cream, in fact there was so much gramcracker that my ice cream is brown. Ate what I could stomach cause I didnt wanna waste it but ended up throwing away the rest.Edit: just looking at the comments and funny thing is that the little girl that did my ice cream was a red head. Maybe all these recent bad reviews is because of a certain little someone.

There were 2 young employees. I asked for a lg turtle, pecan cluster, light on pecans. The lg was insufficiently blended. Lg whole pecans, and lg amount of vanilla ice cream. I was disappointed.

Great family fun atmosphere. Reasonable prices, great service. Awesome staff.

The people are nice. But our order was wrong and my milkshake was more like a chocolate milk. No thickness at all.

There always out of something but its usually good anyways

They were busy when we went, but got things out in a timely manner!

I hadnt had DQ in years because we moved to where their werent any, but I always remembered how good it was.Went yesterday for first time in decades.Even better than I remember it!

Cookie dough ice cream cake was deeelicious!

It is really good for late nights or hot summer days! It was fresh, and i waited for 10 or 15 minutes but it was deffinetly worth the wait, i suggest trying reeses eminems and carmel drizzle!

I drove from Lenoir to hickory just for this dairy queen! Dont know what the difference between this and Lenoir, but the hey, dq is better!

Got the Blizzard, was yummy didnt relly like the chick😣 that took my order bit maybe she was having bad day🤔 I will go back To Be Continued.....

Always great. You cant go wrong with ice cream or ice cream cakes from this place

I receive excellent service at this location.

Love some DQ, this one has been here for years

Just moved to Hickory glad that I found a dairy Queen. This is one of the old ones Im sure its been around for a while that means the service and ice cream is great.

Best ice-cream around

Good ice cream nice workers a great treat

Always a treat!!! We are do lucky to have this iconic place in Hickory!

Delicious ice cream. Comes out fast and is reasonably priced. Awesome summer flavors. I recommend the snicker doodle blizzard.

Only serves ice cream (no grill) but has all the spectrum of Ice cream treats and you get your $ worth

Simply awesome for 30 plus years

Cant go wrong place

I love their dipped cones!

Good service and bizarre

Went there for ice cream and had no dairy available. Just close by that point.

Warm Sunday Evening in Hickory this is the Place to be!Friendly Folks Inside and Out.Ice Cream and Blended Fruit Drinks Served Up with a Smile.Good Quick Service on a Hopping Evening and They have a Good Process in Place to Help with SD.Enjoyed the New Raspberry-Fudge Blizzard

Best place to eat ice cream

Ice cream is good

Great place for Ice cream

Business was booming, great stuff on a bot day.

Great place. Wish there were other locations within Catawba County. This place is located in an odd and out of the way / off the beaten path. But, once you get there...it is nice. Could use an update with better parking.

Very quick service

Very good ice cream

Treats are always good.

Love the cheesecake blizzards.my son likes the cake shakes.

Always super packed and busy but service is always great and food just the same

The Dairy Queen here in Hickory is always very good, and they are following the guideline requiring masks for customers.

The best blizzards in town!

I loved it

I usually try not to complain but my husband drove an hr. Out of our way to go to Dairy Queen only to have a very unpleasant greeting by both workers, the older lady obviously should be the Lead and with that I tried to justify the younger girls behaviour and then to top it off my husband reads a sign that says if your blizzard isnt handed to you upside down the next one is free well his came out the right wrong way and then mine was pushed toward me as if I should be thankful I just spent almost 15$ on 2 cups of ice cream that clearly were lacking in expertise of making, although I have to wonder if it was so poorly put together from spite..I wish people that dont have the knack for service would stay at home instead of accepting my hard earned money with a bad attitude..

I liked it but the staff seemed to not be friendly, but there icecream is always very good

Great Ice Cream

Everything we got was fantastic

Average DQ

Ice cream is good

Love the cookie dough blizzard and chocolate sundae. Customers wait outside in their cars once their orders are placed to maintain social distance.

Always good ice cream 🍦🍦🍦🍦

This is my favorite Dairy Queen location. They only serve desserts..no cheeseburgers, hot dogs, etc. The building is very old, built in the late 40s or early 50s, it sits smack dab in the middle of a parking lot and honestly it looks kinda crappy BUT dont let that fool you. The inside is very clean, they have a high sanitation score and the desserts are DELICIOUS!! You order at the window outside and you can sit out there to eat your treats or take your treats with you. They dont have a dining room but, to me, thats part of the experience of this classic place! Try it out, youll be glad you did!

Classic old DQ drive up station, quick, clean, delicious.

They got my order wrong

Truly a throwback to the old days when DQ made some of the best dessert treats available. Often a line during peak hours, the folks there work hard and serve up the generic treats, but also have a menu taped to the glass of secret items. Theyll make about anything you want.

We pulled up and they had an Elvis impersonator singing. Highly recommend the smores blizzard! Love it!

My girls love it. I get the triple chocolate brownie.

Walk up location with good hours and popular with the locals.

I love there ice cream it was great I really enjoyed that ice cream.

I love this ice cream store. Has excellent choices

I love coming to Dairy Queen. The staff is always pleasant, friendly and helpful. Pat does an excellent job making sure her customers are always happy and satisfied. Very clean and the ice cream is soooo delicious. Treat yourself to a special treat and go visit Dairy Queen.

Slow...always...but worth the wait! Surprised to see it open at this time of year! Its been probably 20 years since I stopped in. I /know/ 17, since we moved to the other side of town. Loved it!! I hope you noe are open year round...we will stop back in!!

Got the Heath Blizzard.Always Delicious

It was packed with people. But it was good ice cream!

Love this place! Waitresses are very kind and they do their best to make your wait times low and keep you comfortable.

Old school dairy queen, friendly staff who know how to pull a cone.

You cant sit inside because the building is not made for it. However, this place has great ice cream and Blizzards! Yummy. In the evening be prepared to wait a little bit but only a couple minutes.

The blizzards were great. Love that kind of ice cream!They were very busy! You never mind the wait when it tastes that GOOD! Highly recommend to ice cream lovers! 😊

We love this place. Nostalgic. Just like they used to be way back when.

Great place just wish they had chocolate icecream

Longtime family ownership has produced generations of faithful customers. Expect quality and consistency. I like the hot fudge sundae with pecans.

Good food but eating area was no cleaned properly

Great got a snicker blizzard yummy 😋

Can never go wrong with DQ

Really small little shop, great service and wonderful ice cream but no where to sit outside and kind of hard to find in the middle of town.

Got a coworker a cake from here and the lady was really friendly! Small store with big heart!

Good service, great prices, family tradition for more years than I care to admit. Will make ice cream cakes in any flavor that it makes sundaesWish it was open year round

Fun evening and very good. It got crowded right after we got there but the staff seemed to handle it fine.

The best

If keep open all year around be much better

Never been disappointed. Very Happy to have this establishment in our community.

We love the building, looks just like a drive up one from a time ago.

Love the girl that waited on us good srevice

Cute girls working is the highlight. I wanted a burger or something, but its just the old-fashioned ice cream shop.

My dipped cone was delicious.

Great food great prices

Chocolate malts were great. Hard to find them anywhere but they have them here

Great food, quick service! Less than a minute on a chocolate shake! And taste so good!

Service was great and on time. Could not ask for anything better

Kids always love going here. Fair prices and good service

A rare 5 stars for my reviews. A long time staple for the Hickory area.

Portion was to small and the price for two banna splits was to high almost $14.00 for two of them.

The employees are very and very thorough and delicious

The boy that waited on me was the nicest boy. It was service with a smile. Im glad I stopped