Franchise Opportunities

Become a part of the iconic Dairy Queen® family by opening your own DQ Grill & Chill® franchise in New Jersey. With more than 65 independently owned and operated locations, we offer a proven business model that will prepare you to open and operate your DQ® restaurant with training and ongoing support. Seize the opportunity to own a piece of this beloved brand.

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Incentives for Growth

DQ of New Jersey offers development incentives for new DQ Grill & Chill® locations, conversions to DQ Grill & Chill®, and remodels of existing locations. Contact our office to learn how the program can support your project. Incentives are subject to eligibility requirements and the terms of our Franchise Disclosure Document.

Explore The Markets Of Opportunity Below

The communities below are examples of New Jersey markets that meet DQ Grill & Chill® site criteria today. They are not reserved areas or exclusive territories; they are a starting point for a conversation. If you have a specific site in mind, in one of these markets or elsewhere in the state, we would be glad to review it with you. Existing restaurant or food-ready buildings that meet our criteria can also be a cost-effective path to opening, and we welcome those conversations as well.

Bayonne
Bayonne runs the length of a peninsula between Newark Bay and New York Bay, with Route 440 and Broadway carrying more than 71,000 residents past four Hudson-Bergen Light Rail stations, Cape Liberty Cruise Port, and Stephen R. Gregg Park. Continued waterfront redevelopment at the former Military Ocean Terminal keeps adding households close to those corridors, and a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant here would sit in a dense, walk-and-drive market with steady after-work and weekend movement.
Bloomfield
Bloomfield Avenue is the commercial spine of an inner-ring Essex County township of more than 53,000 residents, crossed by four Garden State Parkway interchanges and served by two Montclair-Boonton Line stations plus the Newark Light Rail at Grove Street. Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, Bloomfield High School, and Brookdale Park all pull local traffic through the same few corridors, giving a DQ® restaurant a dense, transit-connected setting for everyday visits.
Parsippany - Troy Hills
I-80, I-287, and Routes 46, 10, and 202 converge in Parsippany-Troy Hills, one of New Jersey’s largest suburban office markets, where the daytime population runs well above the township’s 56,000 residents. Corporate campuses, the Waterview Marketplace and the Route 46 and Route 10 retail corridors, and the Lake Hiawatha and Lake Parsippany neighborhoods put office, shopping, and residential traffic on the same roads: an everyday flow a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant can serve after work, after practice, or on the way home.
Bridgewater
Route 22, Routes 202-206, and I-287 meet in Bridgewater, carrying shoppers toward Bridgewater Commons and the adjoining Promenade and commuters past one of the state’s larger pharmaceutical and corporate employment clusters. With Bridgewater-Raritan’s schools, a Raritan Valley Line station, and a daytime population well above its 46,000 residents, the township keeps a steady weekday rhythm that a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant fits into between office lunches, after-school stops, and weekend shopping trips.
Hillsborough
Route 206 runs the length of Hillsborough, connecting more than 43,000 residents to the Hillsborough Promenade, the township’s schools, and Duke Farms just up the road. Nearly forty percent of the township is preserved farmland and open space, so local movement concentrates on a handful of corridors: exactly the kind of everyday pattern where a DQ® restaurant becomes an easy stop after practice, errands, or a Saturday outdoors.
North Brunswick
The US-1 corridor through North Brunswick carries regional through-traffic, neighborhood shopping at the Shoppes at North Brunswick and North Brunswick Plaza, and Rutgers activity just across the township line. With more than 43,000 residents, a 105-acre community park, and the long-planned North Brunswick Transit Village advancing toward construction, the Route 1 frontage here suits a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant built around convenient, repeat visits.
Ewing
Ewing pairs a residential base of more than 37,000 with an unusually large daytime population drawn by The College of New Jersey, Trenton-Mercer Airport, Church & Dwight’s corporate headquarters, and several state agency campuses. Olden Avenue and Route 31 carry that mix past neighborhood shopping and Ewing High School, with I-295 and the West Trenton station connecting the township to the wider Mercer market: a steady, repeatable pattern for a DQ® restaurant.
Howell
Route 9 is Howell’s main street, linking subdivisions, Lanes Mill Marketplace, Howell Commons, and the Manasquan Reservoir across the largest municipality by land area in Monmouth County. Youth sports schedules, Freehold Regional school traffic, and shore-bound weekend travel all share that corridor, which makes Route 9 in Howell a natural setting for a DQ® restaurant families pass on the way to and from what they are already doing.
Hazlet & Holmdel
Routes 35 and 36 tie together two very different neighbors. Hazlet is a built-out Bayshore community with North Jersey Coast Line rail service and highway retail at Hazlet Town Center and Airport Plaza; Holmdel is home to the Bell Works campus, the PNC Bank Arts Center, and 565-acre Holmdel Park. Commuters, concert crowds, and families moving between the two produce layered daily and seasonal traffic that a DQ Grill & Chill® location is well suited to serve.
Stafford Township & Manahawkin
Route 72 is the only road onto Long Beach Island, and every vehicle headed there passes through Stafford Township. Year-round the corridor serves more than 28,000 residents, Southern Regional’s schools, Southern Ocean Medical Center, and the Stafford Park and Manahawkin Commons shopping centers; in season it carries the entire island crowd in both directions. A DQ® restaurant on that route sits directly in a movement pattern that repeats every summer weekend.
Mount Laurel
Routes 38 and 73, three I-295 interchanges, and the New Jersey Turnpike all cross Mount Laurel, feeding the Centerton Square and East Gate Square shopping districts and one of Burlington County’s fastest-growing residential bases, now above 44,000. Between office parks, NFL Films’ headquarters, Laurel Acres Park, and daily retail traffic, a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant here would sit on roads residents already use several times a week.
Evesham Township & Marlton
The Route 70 and Route 73 junction is Marlton’s commercial center, anchored by the Promenade at Sagemore and the surrounding retail node and supported by a township of more than 46,000 residents. Cherokee High School, Virtua Marlton, and neighborhood shopping keep the corridor busy through the week, making it a natural setting for a DQ® restaurant that fits into errands, appointments, and after-school stops.
Mount Holly & Hainesport
Mount Holly is the Burlington County seat, and its courthouse, county offices, and Rancocas Valley Regional High School bring a daytime population well above the township’s residential count. Route 38 and County Route 541 connect that activity to Hainesport’s auto and retail corridor and out to the Turnpike and I-295, giving a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant both a weekday and a weekend rhythm in a historic, walkable county center.
Burlington Township
Route 130 and County Route 541 carry Burlington Township’s daily traffic past Towne Crossing and Liberty Square, the Burlington Stores corporate headquarters, and a growing distribution and logistics base that lifts the daytime population well above its 24,000 residents. With I-295 and the Turnpike at the edge of town and Burlington Township High School nearby, the corridor supports a DQ® restaurant serving both residents and the workforce that commutes in.
Willingboro
Willingboro is the largest of the Levitt-built communities, a planned township of nearly 32,000 residents organized around neighborhood parks and a central town center on Route 130. Virtua Willingboro Hospital, Willingboro High School, and fifteen township parks keep local trips short and repeatable, the kind of close-to-home pattern that suits a DQ® restaurant.
Deptford
Deptford anchors South Jersey’s largest retail concentration, with Deptford Mall and the Almonesson Road and Clements Bridge Road corridors drawing from Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland counties along Routes 42, 41, 45, and 55. Deptford Township High School and the Gloucester County Institute of Technology add daily local traffic to a trade area far larger than the township’s 32,000 residents, and a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant here would sit in the middle of it.
Woodbury
As the Gloucester County seat, Woodbury concentrates the county courthouse and administrative complex, an Inspira health center, and Woodbury Junior-Senior High School into a compact, walkable Broad Street core. Route 45 carries that activity through the city and out toward Route 42 and I-295, and a planned Glassboro-Camden Line stop at the historic Woodbury station would add to it: a downtown setting well suited to a DQ® restaurant.
Stratford & Somerdale
The White Horse Pike runs through both Stratford and Somerdale, two fully built-out Camden County boroughs that share Sterling High School and the Laurel Road medical and academic campuses, including the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine. Students, staff, patients, and families all move along the same short corridor, with the PATCO Lindenwold station just beyond it: a compact, repeat-visit setting for a DQ® restaurant.
Woolwich Township & Swedesboro
Woolwich Township is among the fastest-growing municipalities in New Jersey, up sharply since 2020, and it wraps entirely around historic Swedesboro. Route 322 and Center Square Road connect new neighborhoods to Kingsway Regional’s schools, the township’s designated Route 322 growth center, and Turnpike Exit 2, putting a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant in front of a residential base that is still forming its everyday habits.
Egg Harbor Township
Egg Harbor Township spreads nearly 48,000 residents between the Black Horse Pike and English Creek Avenue, with the Atlantic City Expressway and the Garden State Parkway at its edges and Atlantic City International Airport inside its borders. The AtlantiCare Health Park and Shoppes at English Creek, Harbor Square, Egg Harbor Township High School, and Storybook Land all pull traffic onto those two corridors, and shore-season travel adds to it: a mix a DQ® restaurant can serve year-round.
Vineland
Vineland is the regional hub of Cumberland County, home to more than 60,000 residents across New Jersey’s largest municipality by land area. Delsea Drive, Landis Avenue, and Route 55 carry daily traffic past Cumberland Mall, Inspira Medical Center Vineland, Rowan College of South Jersey, and one of the state’s largest high schools, giving a DQ Grill & Chill® restaurant a central position in a trade area that reaches well beyond the city line.
Millville
Millville sits where Routes 47, 49, and 55 meet, serving more than 27,000 residents plus visitors drawn to New Jersey Motorsports Park, WheatonArts, and the Glasstown Arts District and Levoy Theatre downtown. Millville Executive Airport and its industrial park add weekday traffic, and Union Lake and Millville Senior High School keep local trips frequent, giving a DQ® restaurant a base of both residents and event visitors.