Dairy Queen Tile Renovations

Per the guidelines of a franchisor parent company, franchisees are required to spend an allocated amount of money for remodeling the restaurant(s) that they are operating. Dairy Queen requires new renovations to be done every 10 years.

We've been apart of DQ's renovations at 3 different locations. The Manteca and Stockton locations are owned and operated by the same franchisee owner, and the one in the Vintage Faire Mall in Modesto is owned by another.

Dairy Queen in Manteca Tile Installation

The Manteca location is the first DQ that we took part of. We did this project in the summer of 2021 as the stay-at-home restrictions began to get lifted during the pandemic.

We prepped and tiled the following:

• the menu board wall behind the service counter
• the walls in the drive-thru point of sales area
• a sink wall backsplash
• a food prep backsplash
• a double sided wall partition in the lobby area
• the cake and dessert refrigerator enclosure
• two restrooms (walls only)
• and some additional patch work.

All of the existing floor and wainscot tiles remained. We just needed to patch in the sections where our contractor removed the booth partition walls in the dining area.

The following pictures are of some of the finished tile installations for this project...

This area is what the average customer may see immediately upon walking into the set of entryway doors heading inside of the restaurant.

Lobby and dining area partition wall with four columns and three window openings, installed with 12"x24" tiles.

Menu board wall behind the sales counter installed with 8"x16" ceramic tiles on a brick joint pattern.

This is the cake and treats enclosure, which I've captioned it as the "tombstone cavity" on one of our instagram posts. The next photo is one of the backsplash walls in the back area.

Cake and treats refrigerator enclosure installed with random patterned white ceramic tiles.

Sink wall backsplash tiled with 8"x16" ceramic tiles on a brick joint pattern.

Men's and women's restroom walls installed with 12"x24" porcelain tiles on a brick joint pattern with 1/8" grout lines, finished with Laticrete's dusty gray colored grout.

Men's restroom toilet, urinal and fixtures installed after walls were tiled.

Restroom sink and finish fixtures installed after tile installed was completed.

Dairy Queen in Stockton Tile Installation

While working on the Dairy Queen Grill & Chill in Manteca, the owner had expressed to me a couple of times that he was trying to purchase this location in Stockton. A couple years later, he called to inform me that he got the deal finalized and would like for us to come work on this one, as well.

This DQ project wasn't as big as the previous one showcased above in Manteca. It doesn't even have a drive-thru.

This is the before and after pictures of the cake and treats refrigerator enclosure. The cool and calming blue color looked so nice and clean, that I actually felt a little bad having to install tile over it.

Cake and treats refrigerator enclosure before remodel.

Cake and treats enclosure tiled after renovation.

This is the back accent wall of the menu board.

Dairy Queen in Stockton digital menu board wall renovated with new tile.

There were a few other sections of walls that we set tile onto, as well. This is just the main one that we feel deserves to take a quick look at.

DQ at the Vintage Faire Mall in Modesto

This location is really quite small and didn't have much tile work. It was just a little one row of tile to fill in on a countertop backsplash, and the face of the front sales counter as shown here below.

Sales counter front face tiled at the Dairy Queen at the Vintage Faire Mall in Modesto, with 3D wavy ceramic tiles.

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