Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 230 stores from 93 ice cream & frozen treats in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Big Dipper Creamery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and Waffle Bar.

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
93
Tracked stores
230
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. Big Dipper Creamery and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Big Dipper Creamery - +12.8%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +0.1%
3 W Waffle Bar logo Waffle Bar ▲2 -9.0%
4 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -28.0%
5 W Wonders Ice Cream - -43.2%
6 W What's The Scoop ▼2 -74.5%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Sebastian Joe's
  • Cherry Berry
  • La Michoacana
  • Bebe Zito
  • Dream Creamery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

230 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (106)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (12)
  • Sebastian Joe's (1)
  • Cherry Berry (2)
  • La Michoacana (1)
  • Bebe Zito (2)
  • Dream Creamery (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 106
  • 2 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 12
  • 3 W Wonders Ice Cream 3
  • 4 W What's The Scoop 3
  • 5 W Waffle Bar logo Waffle Bar 3
  • 6 Y Yogurt Lab 3
  • 7 B Big Dipper Creamery 3
  • 8 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 2
  • 9 M Micho Love 2
  • 10 D Dippin' Dots logo Dippin' Dots 2
  • 11 B Bridgeman's Ice Cream 2
  • 12 C Cullens Ice Cream 2
  • 13 M MN Nice Cream 2
  • 14 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard 2
  • 15 B Bebe Zito 2
  • 16 C Cherry Berry 2
  • 17 T Two Scoops 2
  • 18 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's 2
  • 19 S Santa Lucia's Ice Cream 1
  • 20 B Big Bell Ice Cream 1
  • 21 F Frutilandia 1
  • 22 B Booms Ice Cream Shop 1
  • 23 D Delicias Del Viejo 1
  • 24 L La Michoacana Savage 1
  • 25 O Orso Bianco Gelato 1
  • 26 M Minne-Scoop-Ta 1
  • 27 L Lake Elmo Creamery 1
  • 28 M Mabel's Ice Cream 1
  • 29 T Tropical Sno 1
  • 30 L La Michoacana Regia 1
  • 31 V Valentinas Michoacana 1
  • 32 T The Social Ice Cream Parlor 1
  • 33 L La Michoacana Monarca 1
  • 34 T Two Seeds Popcorn + Ice Cream 1
  • 35 H Hometown Creamery 1
  • 36 L Lost Lake Creamery 1
  • 37 I Ice Cream Customs 1
  • 38 L La michoacana Rose Edina 1
  • 39 B Big Eagle Ice Cream 1
  • 40 B Bean Co. 1
  • 41 S Sheps Creamery 1
  • 42 L Little North Sweets 1
  • 43 F Fuente De Sodas Vikky 1
  • 44 B Botanas La Monarca 1
  • 45 T The Main Scoop 1
  • 46 F Flamingos Ice Cream and Treats 1
  • 47 I Icy Cup 1
  • 48 L La Michoacana Purepecha 1
  • 49 C Cone Brothers 1
  • 50 L Lotus Creamery 1

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