{"id":30981,"date":"2025-11-06T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30981\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:17:24","slug":"dixie-dairy-dreem-opens-second-location-in-former-kettering-dairy-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30981\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Dairy Dreem opens second location in former Kettering Dairy Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dairy Queen has been closed since at least Oct. 10. The original sign posted at the business cited a maintenance issue.<\/p>\n

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General Manager Whitney Heys, who has worked on and off at Dixie Dairy Dreem in Moraine since 2011, said Owner Dominic Minella had been looking to open a second location. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt just came up as a great opportunity,\u201d Heys said. <\/p>\n

The ice cream shop offers soft serve ice cream, dairy-free Dole Whip and eight hand-dipped ice cream flavors. Customers can order artic swirls (which are similar to blizzards), shakes, sundaes, parfaits or slushies. <\/p>\n

Customer favorites include peanut butter shakes, chocolate shakes, Oreo artic swirls, Reese\u2019s Cup artic swirls or regular ice cream cones. <\/p>\n

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Dairy Dreem offers a wide variety of food, but right now they do not have a fryer. Minella has plans to get a fryer before the end of the month. <\/p>\n

The ice cream shop currently offers hot dogs, foot longs, burgers, nachos, pretzels and cheese and chips. <\/p>\n

Once they have a fryer, the Kettering location will have the same menu as the Moraine location with favorites such as pork tenderloins, cheese curds and tater kegs filled with cheese, chives and bacon. <\/p>\n

The ice cream shop\u2019s original location at 4542 S. Dixie Drive remains open. <\/p>\n

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Minella, an Oakwood native, bought the ice cream shop about 10 years ago. He once operated a Mister Softee food truck throughout the region after he inherited it from his grandparents. <\/p>\n

Dixie Dairy Dreem is a community staple that has been operating since 1951. <\/p>\n

Heys is looking forward to \u201cseeing a lot new faces and making people happy.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Dairy Dreem is open 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m. daily. The ice cream shop is continuing to offer ice cream cakes. <\/p>\n

Every Wednesday hot dogs are 99 cents and customers can get chili, cheese, mustard and onions on it. Other toppings available include kraut and coleslaw.<\/p>\n

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Natalie Jones writes about food and dining in Southwest Ohio with an emphasis on the Dayton region. She may be reached at natalie.jones@coxinc.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dairy Queen has been closed since at least Oct. 10. The original sign posted at the business cited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18894,11496,18892,9,24,63,122,124,123,18893],"class_list":["post-30981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-atlantic-10-conference","tag-college-sports","tag-dayton-flyers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-university-of-dayton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}