Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 246 stores from 121 ice cream & frozen treats in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt grew fastest over the last year, ahead of TCBY 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
121
Tracked stores
246
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. sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt and TCBY sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - +14.1%
2 T TCBY logo TCBY - +10.7%
3 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - +10.6%
4 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream - +4.4%
5 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +2.9%
6 T The Local Scoop - -0.5%
7 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -1.9%
8 P Pelican's SnoBalls logo Pelican's SnoBalls - -6.4%
9 M Morelia Gourmet Paletas logo Morelia Gourmet Paletas - -6.8%
10 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -12.0%
11 W Whit's Frozen Custard logo Whit's Frozen Custard ▲1 -12.8%
12 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream - -20.4%
13 A Andy's Frozen Custard logo Andy's Frozen Custard - -20.4%
14 H Häagen-Dazs logo Häagen-Dazs ▼1 -50.4%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • TCBY
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
  • Bruster's Real Ice Cream
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

246 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (22)
  • Baskin-Robbins (23)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (11)
  • TCBY (6)
  • Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (1)
  • Bruster's Real Ice Cream (5)
  • Handel's Homemade Ice Cream (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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