Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Pennsylvania

Iceflower tracks 1,157 stores from 596 ice cream & frozen treats in Pennsylvania. Owowcow Creamery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Handel's Homemade Ice Cream and Bruster's Real Ice Cream.

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
596
Tracked stores
1,157
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. Owowcow Creamery and Handel's Homemade Ice Cream sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Owowcow Creamery logo Owowcow Creamery - +3.7%
2 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲1 +2.8%
3 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲1 +2.1%
4 M Malacari's Ice Cream - +1.5%
5 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - +0.6%
6 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +0.2%
7 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt ▲1 -0.0%
8 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt - -0.1%
9 H Half Pint Creamery - -1.3%
10 T The Meadows Original Frozen Custard logo The Meadows Original Frozen Custard - -7.0%
11 B Bonkey's Ice Cream & Snoballs ▲1 -9.9%
12 M MilkShake Factory ▼1 -11.6%
13 M Millie's logo Millie's - -16.3%
14 C Carvel Ice Cream logo Carvel Ice Cream ▲1 -17.5%
15 S Surreal Creamery ▼2 -41.0%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Bruster's Real Ice Cream
  • MilkShake Factory
  • The Meadows Original Frozen Custard
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,157 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (191)
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (204)
  • Baskin-Robbins (36)
  • Bruster's Real Ice Cream (17)
  • MilkShake Factory (3)
  • The Meadows Original Frozen Custard (11)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (12)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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