Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 404 stores from 143 ice cream & frozen treats in Minnesota. 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
143
Tracked stores
404
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 ▲1 +9.9%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -0.9%
3 W Waffle Bar logo Waffle Bar ▲2 -11.4%
4 C CherryBerry Yogurt Bar ▼1 -18.3%
5 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -26.6%
6 W Wonders Ice Cream - -44.7%
7 W What's The Scoop ▼2 -75.2%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Love Creamery
  • Sebastian Joe's
  • Cherry Berry
  • La Michoacana
  • Bebe Zito
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

404 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (217)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (19)
  • Love Creamery (1)
  • Sebastian Joe's (1)
  • Cherry Berry (2)
  • La Michoacana (1)
  • Bebe Zito (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 217
  • 2 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 19
  • 3 C CherryBerry Yogurt Bar 4
  • 4 W What's The Scoop 3
  • 5 W Wonders Ice Cream 3
  • 6 W Waffle Bar logo Waffle Bar 3
  • 7 Y Yogurt Lab 3
  • 8 B Big Dipper Creamery 3
  • 9 B Bridgeman's Ice Cream 2
  • 10 C Cullens Ice Cream 2
  • 11 B Bebe Zito 2
  • 12 C Cherry Berry 2
  • 13 J Jupiter Moon Ice Cream 2
  • 14 M MN Nice Cream 2
  • 15 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard 2
  • 16 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 2
  • 17 C Chilly Billy's Frozen Yogurt 2
  • 18 D Dairyland 2
  • 19 T Two Scoops 2
  • 20 D Dippin' Dots logo Dippin' Dots 2
  • 21 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's 2
  • 22 M Micho Love 2
  • 23 S Shirley's Treats & Eats 1
  • 24 T The Scoop on 47th 1
  • 25 B Booms Ice Cream Shop 1
  • 26 F Frutilandia 1
  • 27 T Triangle Drive-In Treats 1
  • 28 U Up North Ice Cream Company 1
  • 29 B Big Bell Ice Cream 1
  • 30 S Scoops 1
  • 31 F FrioFrio 1
  • 32 P Purple Parlor 1
  • 33 S Sota Scoops 1
  • 34 S Scoops Ice Cream Parlor 1
  • 35 S Schuette's Ice Cream Shoppe 1
  • 36 L La Michoacana Regia 1
  • 37 T Tropical Sno 1
  • 38 M Mabel's Ice Cream 1
  • 39 L Lake Elmo Creamery 1
  • 40 P Penguin Zesto 1
  • 41 M Minne-Scoop-Ta 1
  • 42 T Two Seeds Popcorn + Ice Cream 1
  • 43 T The S'Cream 1
  • 44 O Orso Bianco Gelato 1
  • 45 S Sun and Fun 1
  • 46 E Eat'n Ice Cream Shoppe 1
  • 47 B Below Zero Frozen Treats 1
  • 48 U Uncle Eddie's 1
  • 49 L La Michoacana Savage 1
  • 50 T The Ice Cream Shoppe 1

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in restaurants and QSR? See consumer transaction data for restaurants and QSR →