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DQ to get makeover
by Stephen Woodward
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The Middlesboro Dairy Queen will be torn down next week and rebuilt no later than March 1, 2010 to more modern specifications.
The Middlesboro Dairy Queen will be torn down next week and rebuilt no later than March 1, 2010 to more modern specifications.
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MIDDLESBORO — A fast food chain in Bell County is getting a makeover at the start of next year. Both the Middlesboro and Pineville of Dairy Queen locations are being updated to more modern specifications.

Dairy Queen in Middlesboro will require a complete reconstruction. The restaurant is in the process of being torn down by RTC Construction so a new store can be built no later than March 1st, 2010, according to the President of DQ Corporate stores, Mike Kull. Currently, the restaurant located next to Food City is being gutted and will be torn down next week, according to Kull.

Kull said that not every restaurant gets rebuilt.

“We evaluate all of our sites,” said Kull. “We believe Middlesboro is a good community...and decided Middlesboro is the site we’d like to put in a new building.”

The Dairy Queen in Pineville, which is currently closed, will be renovated and reopened in the first week of January 2010 as a DQ Grill and Chill, according to Kull.

Middlesboro’s location will also be reopened as a DQ Grill and Chill. The management will remain under Joane Hoskins.

Stephen Woodward is a Staff Writer for the Daily News. He may be contacted at swoodward@middlesborodailynews.com.
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comments (5)
« shaker 70 wrote on Wednesday, Nov 25 at 10:08 AM »
To: attiosju 100% right, Should be no kind of Tobacco use in a place eating place. I have seen Men sitting around in this place "jawing" after coffee with big WADs of Chewing Tobacco in their mouths and spitting into their Styrofoam cups. Walk out to your car and haft to watch were you step so you don't step in a WAD of Tobacco or pile of tobacco juice Spit... I quit eating Here long ago. I also QUIT useing Tobacco Some 19 years ago, Bar None Tobacco was the NASTIEST HABIT Habit I ever Had..
« attiosju wrote on Wednesday, Nov 25 at 08:42 AM »
If they really want to make it "modern" then they will no longer allow smoking in this place. Eggs, bisquits and coffee in a styrofoam cup is gross, but add second-hand smoke and it becomes absolutely disgusting.
« Rick Smith wrote on Wednesday, Nov 25 at 12:46 AM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34141027/ns/local_news-lexington_ky/

This is some news that happened in Knox Co. today.

Little more news than someone doing a remodel.
« shaker 70 wrote on Tuesday, Nov 24 at 08:28 PM »


Yes, Bobby W. It is. The workers will miss their pay checks , But Hardees has most of the Morning Breakfast Busness anyway. Maybe the new place will sell coffee in a real cup, not Styrofoam cups. I hate my Morning Coffee Eggs & Biscuits in Styrofoam. GROSS!!!!!
« Bobby Wayne Fuson wrote on Monday, Nov 23 at 11:05 PM »
Is this building still located on the corner of 25-e and east cumberland across from east cumberland baptist ch.?
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