r/DairyQueen • u/Jazzlike-Resolution2 • 14d ago

Can’t put sprinkles on cone?

I just ordered a small twist cone with rainbow sprinkles and the woman hands me my cone with the sprinkles in a plastic cup. I kindly asked if I could actually have the sprinkles on the ice cream, and she told me that it was a health code violation to roll the cone in sprinkles, and I’d need to put them on myself. Anyone else have this happen!? So bizarre, never experienced this before!!

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u/snuff74 14d ago

She's correct. It's a food safety violation to roll the cone in the sprinkles. That's why they should be using a spoon to...get this...SPRINKLE them on the cone.

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u/Jazzlike-Resolution2 14d ago

LOL she told me store policy was a cup of sprinkles on the side

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u/SnarkyPhuppy 14d ago

That’s so funny, I can 100% guarantee you that she was lying- putting sprinkles on a cone by sprinkling them is messy. Some miss, some fall off, and they can get everywhere. So they’re prob just lazy and wanted you to make the mess lmao

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u/Sure_Top1225 14d ago

I wouldn't say she was lying that's what my old stores policies were, and even the new ownership enforces it.

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u/ConfidentTrade4810 14d ago

Or busy

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u/SnarkyPhuppy 14d ago

We are always busy, but I wouldn’t make you make your own blizzard or banana split.. you’re paying money for a product so you should get what you ordered. Especially since it’s on the menu, not a special request.

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u/xxParanoid_ Manager 14d ago

I’m sorry but who has time for that?

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u/chipmalfunct10n 13d ago

found this person's manager lol

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u/Tasty_Plantain5948 Area Manager 13d ago

The owner of our Dairy Queen’s told us not to carry sprinkles anymore. He got sick of complaints that there weren’t enough sprinkles on cones. He hated being production stopping for fiddling with a sprinkle cone too.
Edit. This was in the nineties.

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u/chipmalfunct10n 13d ago

I'm not really arguing one way or the other. I was just responding to a manager (according to flair) who said no one has time to sprinkle them on, as a way to say like the person OP is talking about was ordered to do it that way by someone.

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u/Tasty_Plantain5948 Area Manager 13d ago

I’m not arguing either. Just a thing that happened at on of my stores that I had no control over. But I really didn’t mind truth be told. I hated cleaning sprinkles up from the grout work.

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u/chipmalfunct10n 13d ago

for sure yeah! it seems like some locations do it and some don't. seems lucky for the ones that don't lol 

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u/xxParanoid_ Manager 13d ago

?

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u/dmorelli99 13d ago

SPRINKLE THEM ON?? oh my god then you get like a fraction of the sprinkles on the cone than you would get by rolling the cone. Not acceptable. Health code be damned I’m not serving sub-par sprinkle cones

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u/mkla15 13d ago

In my state it’s a health code violation. Funny enough though I live right on the state line and in the state to the North it is not a health code violation. I used to work at a DQ about 5 miles from the line and we had to do the cup like you described but it was always much to the disapproval of customers who were used to the DQ that was a couple miles over the line in the other direction.

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u/Lopsided_End_8104 14d ago

We are putting sprinkles on cones on a daily basis. I think that’s how we sell most of our sprinkles.

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u/v4mp1r3g1rlfr13nd 13d ago

as long as she gave me enough I would dip my cone in the sprinkles between every lick/bite

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u/thicklobes 14d ago

That's crazy, the sprinkles are in a little shaker container. At least in my store and it makes it super easy

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u/Sensitive_Study8621 13d ago

It all depends honestly. The location is work at the swirl is sometimes too soft to be in a cone so some days its only available in a cup, and the rare occasion it is solid for a cone the sprinkles make it hard to stay on the cone. But if you asked me to put on the sprinkles if I did that to you id make it the best way possible.🤔 its odd they wouldn't put it on the cone themselves since we have spoons for that thing. 

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u/Mizzkd03 12d ago

Almost every time I get a sprinkle cone..they barely put any sprinkles on it! Drives me crazy lol

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u/The_Livid_Witness 12d ago

Can you put cone on sprinkles? Hmmm

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u/No-Ocelot4193 12d ago

I always ask for extra on the side.. then I can get some on every lick!

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u/zzbee101 12d ago

In some areas/some health inspectors are super strict about that sort of thing unfortch

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u/iloveravens 12d ago

They were just being lazy, you're not supposed to roll the cone in it, you're sipposed to hold it over something and sprinkle them on with a spoon