To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Dairy Queen is giving away free ice cream on Monday.

Free Cone Day allows visitors at participating Dairy Queen and DQ Grill & Chill locations to be treated to a small size soft-serve vanilla cone on March 16 at no cost. However, the one-day offer is limited to small cones and just one freebie per customer.

The company is also honoring its anniversary by raising money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, an international nonprofit that supports children's hospitals, medical research and children's health issues, reports CNN Money.

Meanwhile, later this week, Rita's Italian Ice will kick off the spring season by giving customers a free Italian ice on March 20, Time reports. Customers have the option of choosing the Italian ice of their liking.

This will mark the 23rd year of Rita's annual First Day of Spring Free Italian Ice Giveaway. According to the company's website, the ice cream shop distributed 1.2 million cups of free Italian Ice within nine hours during the giveaway last year.

In addition, ice cream lovers can also look forward to Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day on April 14.

Last week it was announced that three patients at a Kansas hospital died after developing a food-borne illness from Blue Bell ice cream contaminated with listeria.

In total, five people in the state were infected with life-threatening listeriosis, which is caused by eating food tainted with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches and diarrhea. However, the disease is treatable with antibiotics.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), four of the victims drank milkshakes last month made with a single serving of Blue Bell's Scoops ice cream at the hospital, a finding "that strongly suggests their infections were acquired in the hospital," reports Fox News. The CDC added that all of the individuals were being treated in the same hospital for unrelated conditions.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that the outbreak was linked to tainted products made on a production line at the Blue Bell Creameries plant in Brenham, Texas.