Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in the United States

Iceflower tracks 25,589 stores from 10,111 ice cream & frozen treats in the United States. Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Carl's and Cherry On Top.

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
10,111
Tracked stores
25,589
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. Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream and Carl's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream ▲12 +16.8%
2 C Carl's ▲23 +16.5%
3 C Cherry On Top ▲10 +15.8%
4 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream ▲3 +14.8%
5 S Simply Natural Creamery ▲9 +14.3%
6 T Tropical Sno ▲9 +13.9%
7 T The STIL ▲11 +13.3%
8 Z Zeppe's Italian Ice logo Zeppe's Italian Ice ▲6 +13.0%
9 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +12.0%
10 B Braum's logo Braum's ▲1 +11.6%
11 Y Yogurtini ▲5 +11.4%
12 T Twistee Treat logo Twistee Treat ▲3 +11.1%
13 M Mayday Ice Cream logo Mayday Ice Cream ▲6 +10.4%
14 G Gelati Celesti Ice Cream logo Gelati Celesti Ice Cream ▲7 +10.4%
15 T The Scoop ▲16 +10.3%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Braum's
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
  • La Michoacana
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 25,589 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (4,523)
  • Baskin-Robbins (1,890)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (956)
  • Braum's (174)
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (607)
  • La Michoacana (198)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (197)
  • Other tracked chains

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