Trends · data through August 2026

Casual Eateries in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 583 stores from 203 casual eateries chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Baskin-Robbins grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard and Dippin' Dots.

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
203
Tracked stores
583
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual eateries chains

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. Baskin-Robbins and Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +18.2%
2 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - +12.3%
3 D Dippin' Dots logo Dippin' Dots - +9.6%
4 C Carmen's Italian Ice ▲2 +9.5%
5 H Häagen-Dazs logo Häagen-Dazs ▲1 +2.0%
6 B Bethesda Bagels logo Bethesda Bagels - +1.3%
7 I Ice Cream Jubilee ▼1 +0.5%
8 T Texas Donuts ▲1 -0.7%
9 D Duck Donuts logo Duck Donuts ▲2 -1.3%
10 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - -2.7%
11 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream - -3.8%
12 H Haagen-Dazs logo Haagen-Dazs ▼1 -4.1%
13 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - -7.6%
14 K Krispy Kreme logo Krispy Kreme - -11.3%
15 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -11.9%
  • Dunkin'
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Village Creamery
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Krispy Kreme
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

583 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dunkin' (122)
  • Baskin-Robbins (83)
  • Village Creamery (1)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (24)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (28)
  • Krispy Kreme (8)
  • Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (26)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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