--- title: Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream March 16 description: The company is celebrating its 75th anniversary canonical: https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-07T16:55:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:28.147Z og:title: Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream on March 16 og:description: The company is celebrating its 75th anniversary og:url: https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedb0da5a7b7f6f6/698782b05f570fe724b15a3b/dairy-queen-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 600 og:image:height: 338 og:image:alt: dairy-queen-ice-cream og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream on March 16 twitter:description: The company is celebrating its 75th anniversary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedb0da5a7b7f6f6/698782b05f570fe724b15a3b/dairy-queen-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=600&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream on March 16 > Sponsored content. 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The company is celebrating its 75th anniversary on the 75th day of the calendar year (March 16) by offering one small vanilla soft-service to customers free of charge at participating locations, _People_ reports. But Dairy Queen is hoping that customers use those extra dollars saved for a good cause: DQ will be asking for donations to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals that day. “This is all about connecting with our fans and not just about telling them, but showing them how much we appreciate their loyalty,” Dairy Queen’s executive vice president of marketing, Barry Westrum, said in a statement. \[[_People_](http://greatideas.people.com/2015/03/03/dairy-queen-free-cone-march-2015/?xid=socialflow%5Ffacebook%5Fpeoplemag)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/"},"headline":"Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream on March 16","datePublished":"2015-03-07T16:55:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:28.147Z","description":"The company is celebrating its 75th anniversary","url":"https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedb0da5a7b7f6f6/698782b05f570fe724b15a3b/dairy-queen-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfedb0da5a7b7f6f6/698782b05f570fe724b15a3b/dairy-queen-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dairy-queen-ice-cream","caption":"","creditText":"Dairy Queen","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3736331/free-ice-cream-dairy-queen/","name":"Dairy Queen Offering Free Ice Cream on March 16"}}]}] ```