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900 People Pay Kindness Forward at a Fast Food Drive Thru

900 People Pay Kindness Forward at a Fast Food Drive Thru 900 People Pay Kindness Forward at a Fast Food Drive Thru Kindness February 02, 2021 When you witness an act of kindness, it instantly warms your heart and restores your faith in humanity. Many people show compassion for others by buying their coffee or meal in a drive-thru line. You’ve probably heard tons of stories like this of people paying it forward at their local Starbucks. This happened recently at a Dairy Queen in northern Minnesota, where 900 cars took part in the good deed! Employees at the fast-food chain couldn’t believe how many cars participated, but perhaps the Christmas spirit had something to do with it. Around the holidays, many people feel more cheerful and want to help lift the spirits of others around them. The customers at the Dairy Queen in Brainerd, Minnesota certainly must’ve felt the joy of the season. Also, the pandemic has brought out kindness in many people, especially since so many have lost their jobs or loved ones.

Dairy Queen Customers Spark 900-Person Chain of Kindness

Image zoom | Credit: Alamy Nearly 1,000 customers at a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Minnesota took part in a kindness chain last weekend that lasted for two whole days. Tina Jensen, general manager of the Dairy Queen in Brainerd, told ABC affiliate KTRK it’s not unheard of for customers to pay for what the person behind them ordered as a random act of kindness. When that happens, employees will typically ask the customer whose order was paid for if they want to do the same, and at most, the chain will stretch for 15 to 20 cars before it breaks. But on the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 3, a customer sparked a chain that would take more than 900 customers all the way through Saturday night.

Over 900 cars paid for each other's meals at a drive-thru in Minnesota

Over 900 cars paid for each other's meals at a Dairy Queen drive-thru

Over 900 cars paid for each other's meals at a Dairy Queen drive-thru Share Updated: 11:04 AM CST Dec 10, 2020 By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Share Updated: 11:04 AM CST Dec 10, 2020 Hide Transcript Share Updated: 11:04 AM CST Dec 10, 2020 By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN What started as a random act of kindness from one man paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-thru resulted in over 900 cars also taking part in the pay it forward chain.There's no question about it: This year has been tough for so many — some are fighting battles we may know nothing about. But at a drive-thru in Brainerd, Minnesota, over 100 miles north of Minneapolis, people stepped up in a small way to show one another that they care.Tina Jensen, the store manager at one of the two Dairy Queens in town, told CNN a man came by the drive-thru window on Thursday and asked if he could pay for his meal and for the car behind him.Jensen told her cashier this tends to happen once in a while but at most it lasts for 15 or 20 cars and fizzles out.This time, the chain continued for two and a half days with over 900 cars participating, raking in $10,000 in sales, according to Jensen.When the next customer came to the fast food chain's window, Jensen explained what the man in front of them had done — and the acts of kindness continued to multiply."There's all different types of ways to help people," Jensen said. "I think this touched a lot of people that we didn't even know it touched, deeper than we know. And you don't know what's going on in a person's life."When the chain closed for the night Thursday, one car left $10 to begin the chain back up Friday morning and again on Saturday morning. Jensen provided updates on the number of cars at each day's end on the store's Facebook page.Video: See how Dairy Queen makes its Blizzard cakesHeidi Bruse experienced that act of kindness on Friday evening during a dinner run, she told CNN."During times like these it kind of restores your faith in humanity a little," Bruse said. "The way the world is now you see a lot of anger, tension, and selfish behavior. What we witnessed was pure kindness and it was a breath of fresh air really."But that wasn't even the best part. For Bruse, it was going home to tell her family that they played a role in the chain and kept it going."Not that we got free ice cream," she said. "The gesture was way more valuable."Like so many others in the restaurant industry, the restaurant has faced some challenges adapting to new business practices during the coronavirus pandemic."With the lobby shutting down, being only open for take out, being able to open for half your capacity, different things like that," have played a role in trying to keep morale high, Jensen said. Her top priority is the safety of her customers and crew with increased disinfecting and cleaning measures, she said.Seeing how positive her staff became with every passing car paying it forward, married to the reactions of her customers when the cashier told them their meal had been taken care of, was touching, Jensen said."No matter what's going on, take care of each other, be positive, be happy and don't focus on the negative, we'll get through it," she said.

A 'pay it forward' chain at fast food drive through brings some to tears

Man Pays for Car Behind Him at Minnesota Dairy Queen, Starting 'Pay It Forward' Chain 900 Cars Long

Benjamin Lee, a manager at the 70 year old Dairy Queen in Quincy, MA, passes an order through a customer's window as part of the curbside service recently started at the restaurant and ice cream shop on April 19, 2020. (Getty Images) By Inside Edition Staff It all started last Thursday when one man decided to pay for the next person. It started out with one man in line at a drive-thru Dairy Queen Minnesota decided to pay for the order of the car behind him. What resulted was 900 cars taking part in the "pay it forward" chain, CNN reported. Tina Jensen, the store manager, told CNN the man came through the line on Thursday and asked if he could pay for the customers behind him. She said when that happens, it usually only lasts 15 to 20 cars, at most.

Pay it forward: Over 900 cars pay for each other's meals

One man's random act of kindness was kept up for two and a half days.