But they must share Ameriserve with Applebees, Arby's, Chili's, Dairy Queen and 25 others.
"Our customers really wanted it, " said Dean Peters, International Dairy Queen's associate vice president of communications.
Dairy Queen did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment on the report.
Then he'll make a pit stop at one of the Dairy Queen outlets he owns in Omaha.
The second-home market has mushroomed, and with it, a population of folks whose tastes extend beyond Dairy Queen.
Earlier this month, Dairy Queen International opened its first combined DQ Orange Julius store in Belvidere, Ill.
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The aw-shucks owner of Dairy Queen says he only buys businesses he understands.
Dairy Queen is the latest eatery to shrink a popular menu item.
The Dairy Queen shares were eventually converted to Berkshire stock.
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Buffett had yet to discover Dairy Queen at the time.
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Dairy Queen isn't the only big-name restaurant shrinking menu items.
That's followed by Chili's pepperoni pizza meal with homestyle fries and chocolate milk, which packs 1, 120 calories, and Dairy Queen's fried chicken strip meal with fries, a slushy drink and an ice cream bar, with 1, 030 calories.
In 1988, he got attracted to International Dairy Queen and bought 50 shares of its class A stock mainly because he thought it was a company that Buffett would favor, given its good products, easy-to-understand operations, high returns on equity, little debt, and a reasonable price-earnings ratio.
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The insurance and investments conglomerate run by Buffett and his long-time partner Charles Munger owns businesses like Burlington Northern Santa Fe, GEICO and Dairy Queen and has sizable investments in the likes of Coca-Cola and American Express (not to mention a recently-purchased preferred stake in Bank of America).
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