WIMBERLEY, Texas -- For more than 50 years, Dairy Queen has been serving Texans fast food meals. It has even been dubbed by some as "The Texas Stop Sign."
Most Dairy Queens locations are independently-owned and operated.
Some Dairy Queen locations in the Texas Panhandle are closing. They are owned by franchisee Vasari LLC. The LLC filed for bankruptcy last October.
It has some DQ fans worried. The fast food is a small-town Texas staple.
The Dairy Queen in Wimberley has a different owner – Smith Dairy Queens -- based out of Bryan. And according to that company, the Wimberley DQ is doing well.
Lynn and Nick Edwards are two 82-year-olds who have been going together to Wimberley DQ once a week for lunch since they moved to Wimberley 20 years ago.
"It's clean,” said Lynn Edwards. “And you also see your neighbors."
It is a meeting spot of sorts.
"Sometimes it's politics,” she said. “Sometimes it's church. Sometimes it's what's going on with the kids in town."
On Monday, they had a crispy chicken salad for lunch.
"At our age we can't eat as much as we used to,” said Nick Edwards. “As much as I would love to. I would balloon out like that,” he said while gesturing at his stomach.
But does the couple ever get bored of the same food?
“Well, mmm, ask her that,” said Nick Edwards.
"No. It means I don't have to cook,” she said with a laugh.
Do they ever get bored of each other's company?
"No,” said Lynn Edwards again. “We just have a lot of fun together. Wouldn't you say?”
“Mhmm,” her husband replied.
So if it is noon at the Wimberley DQ, you can catch up with the Andrews.
Central Texas is no stranger to Dairy Queen.
The first DQ to open in Texas was on Guadalupe Street in Austin.