Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in California

Iceflower tracks 2,672 stores from 1,082 ice cream & frozen treats in California. Water & Ice grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Handel's Homemade Ice Cream and Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,082
Tracked stores
2,672
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Water & Ice and Handel's Homemade Ice Cream sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Water & Ice ▲5 +18.8%
2 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲2 +18.2%
3 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲1 +18.2%
4 S Swirl ▲4 +17.3%
5 P Pinkberry logo Pinkberry ▲2 +17.3%
6 G Golden Spoon ▲1 +16.2%
7 L Loards Ice Cream ▲3 +15.0%
8 G Ghirardelli logo Ghirardelli ▲1 +14.8%
9 H Haagen-Dazs logo Haagen-Dazs ▲3 +14.6%
10 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream - +14.6%
11 L La Michoacana Monarca ▲1 +13.1%
12 M Mister Softee logo Mister Softee ▲1 +12.2%
13 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt ▲1 +12.0%
14 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's ▲2 +11.5%
15 L La Michoacana ▲1 +11.1%
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream
  • Dairy Queen
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt
  • La Michoacana
  • Yogurtland
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,672 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Baskin-Robbins (369)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (195)
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream (41)
  • Dairy Queen (76)
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt (72)
  • La Michoacana (69)
  • Yogurtland (172)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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