Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 258 stores from 142 ice cream & frozen treats in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Haagen-Dazs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt and Menchie's Frozen Yogurt.

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
142
Tracked stores
258
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. Haagen-Dazs and Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Haagen-Dazs logo Haagen-Dazs ▲1 +9.7%
2 T Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt ▲2 +8.3%
3 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt - +6.5%
4 G Golden Spoon ▲1 +4.8%
5 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream - +4.7%
6 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -0.0%
7 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - -1.2%
8 K Kona Ice logo Kona Ice ▲1 -4.7%
9 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -4.9%
10 L La Michoacana Plus - -8.3%
11 Y Yogurtland logo Yogurtland ▼5 -95.6%
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Dairy Queen
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt
  • SomiSomi
  • Salt & Straw
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

258 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream (8)
  • Baskin-Robbins (31)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (28)
  • Dairy Queen (10)
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt (10)
  • SomiSomi (1)
  • Salt & Straw (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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