Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 298 stores from 186 ice cream & frozen treats in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Swirl and Ghirardelli.

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
186
Tracked stores
298
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. Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard and Swirl sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲2 +15.5%
2 S Swirl - +8.2%
3 G Ghirardelli logo Ghirardelli ▲1 +6.7%
4 L Loards Ice Cream - +6.2%
5 F Fosters Freeze logo Fosters Freeze - +5.6%
6 U United Paleteria y Neveria - +4.1%
7 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +4.0%
8 H Humphry Slocombe - +1.5%
9 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +0.4%
10 S Salt & Straw logo Salt & Straw - -0.3%
11 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt - -2.1%
12 Y Yogofina ▼1 -13.4%
13 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -18.2%
14 L La Michoacana Plus ▲1 -20.3%
15 I Icicles ▼1 -20.3%
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Fentons Creamery
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt
  • Salt & Straw
  • Ghirardelli
  • Meadowlark Dairy
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

298 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Baskin-Robbins (32)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (23)
  • Fentons Creamery (1)
  • Menchie's Frozen Yogurt (7)
  • Salt & Straw (4)
  • Ghirardelli (3)
  • Meadowlark Dairy (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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