"As a student, it was a highlight to get to go to Dairy Queen everyday for lunch," Floyd said with a large smile.
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Richard Keith sold the downtown Dairy Queen location in 1991 and went on to work for the Somerset School systems as a bus driver for 14 years.įor former Somerset High School student, educator and principal Tommy Floyd, Richard Keith's Dairy Queen brought back a lot of fond memories. "They made their secretive 'Quickie' corn dogs in the backroom and everyone had to leave during the making of the batter." "The 'Quickie' corn dog recipe was only known to my dad and my Aunt Dorothy," stated Keith's daughter Patrice Vaughn. However, Keith's "Quickie" corn dog recipe - which was handed down to him from the former owners - was as secretive as the Kentucky Fried Chicken's "11 herbs and spices" recipe. Keith cooked his hamburgers on a flat grill with just the right amount of Lawry's Seasoning Salt. "Quickie" corndogs and grilled hamburgers were the lunch food of choice for most of the Somerset High School students during that era. Up until 1975, Dairy Queen did not regulate what food the franchisees could serve. "They didn't have a lot of time for their lunch break, and I can still remember watching the students sprinting down Oak Street to be the first in line to order their lunch at Dairy Queen." "Back in those days, Somerset High School students either brought their own lunch or ate off campus," stated former Somerset High School educator Bob Tucker. But it was his lunchtime fast-food servings that drew large daily crowds of hungry Somerset High School students. Like most Dairy Queen franchises, the Keiths' provided delicious ice-cold treats to the community on those hot summer days. For 32 years, from 1959 to 1991, Richard and his wife Quinta Keith owned and operated the downtown Somerset Dairy Queen restaurant on North Main Street.Īfter serving two years in the Army and marrying the love of his life, Quinta May Yaste, in 1958, Richard Keith purchased the local downtown Dairy Queen for $12,000 from James Ramsey and Morris Christopher - who had originally opened the establishment in 1949. 17-Richard Keith, 90 years old, passed away on Sunday evening, leaving behind a generation of local ice-cream loving followers.
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