Chain · United States · data through September 2026

Carvel Ice Cream

Iceflower tracks 261 Carvel Ice Cream stores across 9 US states and 1 territory. It ranks #22 of 10,015 tracked US ice cream & frozen treats by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -5.7% over the last year.

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 stores
261
States
9
Category
Ice Cream & Frozen Treats
Category rank
#22

Growth

Carvel Ice Cream against its category

The biggest tracked US ice cream & frozen treats by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Carvel Ice Cream's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 Dairy Queen -1.3%
2 Baskin-Robbins +12.1%
3 Cold Stone Creamery -12.3%
4 La Michoacana -1.7%
5 Braum's +10.4%
6 Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard -0.4%
7 sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt +4.1%
8 Menchie's Frozen Yogurt -0.1%
9 Braum's Ice Cream & Burger Restaurant +7.2%
10 Handel's Homemade Ice Cream +8.1%
22 Carvel Ice Cream -5.7%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 87.2 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

261 tracked Carvel Ice Cream locations across 9 US states and 1 territory. New York, New Jersey, and Florida hold 88% of them.

Customer overlap

Who shops at Carvel Ice Cream

Tracked chains Carvel Ice Cream customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

ShopRite 100
Stew Leonard's 55
Los Primos Mexican Grill 53
Livoti's Old World Market 44

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