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• Amy's Ice Creams
  Amy's Ice Creams
  Amy's Ice Creams is a privately-owned chain of ice cream shops in Texas with headquarters in Austin. The Austin Chronicle described Amy's as a "quintessentially Austin institution" which "dominates the local ice cream scene." Amy's ice cream is owned by Amy Simmons.-History:Known colloquially as...
  
  
• Andy's Frozen Custard
  Andy's Frozen Custard
  Andy's Frozen Custard is a chain of frozen custard stands with locations in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas and Illinois.- History :Andy's was founded by John and Carol Kuntz in 1986 in Osage Beach, Missouri...
  
  
• Angelo Brocato's
  Angelo Brocato's
  Angelo Brocato's Italian Ice Cream Parlor is a family-owned ice cream parlor located in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1905, it is regarded as a New Orleans institution...
  
  
• Australian Homemade
  Australian Homemade
  Australian Homemade is a franchise formula for confectionery stores owned by Australian Homemade, based in Veenendaal, Netherlands. The stores produce and sell premium ice cream and chocolate using all natural ingredients...
  
  
• Bakdash
• Baskin-Robbins
  Baskin-Robbins
  Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are...
  
  
• Beacon Drive In
  Beacon Drive In
  The Beacon Drive In is a restaurant in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Founded and built in 1958 by Bill Pistol and Bob McMillan, it has become known as a "Victoria institution" for its soft-serve ice cream, friendly service, and local clientele...
  
  
• Ben & Jerry's
  Ben & Jerry's
  Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United...
  
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  Unilever
  Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  
   brand ice cream)
• Berthillon
  Berthillon
  Berthillon is a French manufacturer and retailer of luxury ice cream and sorbet, with its primary store on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, France...
  
  
• Braum's
  Braum's
  Braum's Ice Cream and Dairy Stores is a family-owned and operated chain of fast-food restaurants and grocery stores based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with a large concentration on dairy products....
  
  
• Brigham's Ice Cream
  Brigham's Ice Cream
  Brigham's Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturer and franchised restaurants. Brigham's is sold in quart cartons throughout New England, and served at franchised restaurants located in Massachusetts. It was founded in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. Since the purchase by HP Hood, its offices are...
  
  
• Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
  Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
  The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is an ice cream shop at a converted 1922 fireboat house at 1 Water Street on the Fulton Ferry Landing Pier in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge in the neighborhood called DUMBO....
  
  
• Bruster's Ice Cream
  Bruster's Ice Cream
  Bruster's Ice Cream is a chain of ice cream parlors whose ice cream and frozen yogurt is made from a milk based mix at each individual store. Their primary operating region is in most states east of the Mississippi River and more specifically in Western Pennsylvania where the chain is based. All...
  
  
• Cadwalader's Ice Cream
  Cadwalader's Ice Cream
  Cadwalader's Ice Cream is a family-run chain of well known ice cream parlours that originated in Gwynedd, Wales. The ice cream parlour was introduced in Criccieth, by husband and wife David and Hannah Cadwalader in 1927, and was originally run as a general store...
  
  
• Carl's Ice Cream
  Carl's Ice Cream
  Carl's Ice Cream is a roadside ice cream stand located at 2200 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Since 2005, the stand, with its Art Moderne architectural facade, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.,-History:Carl Sponseller founded Carl's Frozen Custard...
  
  
• Carvel
• Ciao Bella Gelato Company
  Ciao Bella Gelato Company
  Ciao Bella Gelato Company is a company specializing in gelatos and sorbets. It was begun in 1983 in a kitchen in New York City's Little Italy. Traditional recipes from Torino were used. Ciao Bella, as it is more commonly called, is currently owned by Charlie Apt and F.W. Pearce.-History:Ciao Bella...
  
  
• Cold Stone Creamery
  Cold Stone Creamery
  Cold Stone Creamery is an American-based ice cream parlor chain. The company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is owned and operated by Kahala Franchising, L.L.C. The company's main product is premium ice cream, or ice cream made with approximately 12-14% butterfat, that is made on location and...
  
  
• Coney Island
  Coney Island
  Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....
  
  
• Cows
• Culver's
  Culver's
  Culver’s is a privately owned and operated fast casual restaurant chain that operates primarily in the Midwestern United States. The first Culver’s opened in 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin...
  
  
• Dairy Queen
  Dairy Queen
  Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...
  
  
• Diddy Riese
  Diddy Riese
  Diddy Riese is a popular restaurant in Westwood Village, a shopping area in Los Angeles, CA. Diddy's sells cookies, ice cream, Hawaiian shave ice, coffee, and milk....
  
  
• Dipper Dan
  Dipper Dan
  is a popular Japanese ice cream parlors chain. It was founded in 1972, and is operated by Orange Food Court, Inc, which is affiliated with Daiei. The chain started as a joint venture between Daiei and Swift & Co...
  
  
• Dippin' Dots
  Dippin' Dots
  Dippin' Dots is an ice cream snack, invented by Southern Illinois University Carbondale graduate Curt Jones in 1987. The confection is created by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen; consequently, Dippin' Dots contain less air than conventional ice cream...
  
  
• Emack & Bolio's
  Emack & Bolio's
  Emack & Bolio's is a chain of ice cream stores based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The chain was founded by Robert Rook, a lawyer and self-declared hippie who has worked closely with the homeless, Vietnam war protesters, civil and gay rights advocates, and numerous rock bands such as...
  
  
• Farrell's
• Fentons Creamery
  Fentons Creamery
  Fentons Creamery is a historic ice cream parlor and restaurant located on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, USA.It opened in 1894 on the corner of 41st and Howe streets before moving to its present location in 1961, a few blocks away...
  
  
• Fosters Freeze
  Fosters Freeze
  Fosters Freeze is a chain of fast-food restaurants in California. It was founded by George Foster in 1946 on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, California, a location that still remains, and claims to have been the first fast-food chain in the state.George Foster later sold the Foster's Freeze franchise...
  
  
• Four Seas Ice Cream
  Four Seas Ice Cream
  Four Seas Ice Cream is an independent ice cream shop located in Centerville, Massachusetts. It is one of the three oldest ice cream shops in New England. It has been the winner of many awards and citations over the years as the result of its flavors...
  
  
• Friendly's
  Friendly's
  Friendly Ice Cream Corporation is the owner and operator of the Friendly's restaurant chain on the United States' East Coast. Founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by brothers Curtis Blake and S. Prestley Blake, 20, their first shop served double-dip cones for 5 cents...
  
  
• Frost, A Gelato Shoppe
  Frost, A Gelato Shoppe
  Frost, A Gelato Shoppe is a privately owned gelato company located in Tucson, Arizona. The company, started in 2005 by two University of Arizona alumni, has three stores in the Tucson area and has earned many awards and accolades since its inception...
  
  
• G&D's
• Gilles Frozen Custard
  Gilles Frozen Custard
  Gilles Frozen Custard is a brand of frozen custard that originated at the Gilles Frozen Custard Stand; the oldest frozen custard stand in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , dating back to 1938...
  
  
• Giolitti
  Giolitti
  Giolitti is a well-known café and pastry shop, and the oldest ice cream parlor in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1890 by Giuseppe and Bernardina Giolitti and operates at two locations: via Uffici del Vicario near the Pantheon and in E.U.R....
  
  
• Graeter's
  Graeter's
  Graeter's is a regional chain of shops offering ice cream, baked goods, and candy which originated in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1870. Their super premium, thick ice cream has been featured on Food Network, and has earned them many dedicated fans, including Oprah Winfrey.-"French pot" process:Graeter's...
  
  
• Häagen-Dazs
  Häagen-Dazs
  Häagen-Dazs is a brand of ice cream, established by Jewish-Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961. Starting with only three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and coffee, the company opened its first retail store in Brooklyn, New York, on November 15, 1976...
  
  
• Handel's Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt
  Handel's Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt
  Handel's Homemade Ice Cream & Yogurt is a popular ice cream company franchise founded by Alice Handel in 1945 in Youngstown, Ohio. The company operates thirty-four corporate and franchise stores in five states...
  
  
• Happy Joe's
  Happy Joe's
  Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded in 1972 by "Happy Joe" Whitty, a former Shakey's Pizza manager...
  
  
• Herrell's Ice Cream
  Herrell's Ice Cream
  Herrell's Ice Cream is a chain of ice cream stores across Massachusetts and New York.The colorful store features over 200 homemade flavors of ice cream, sorbet and frozen yogurt...
  
  
• High's Dairy Store
  High's Dairy Store
  High's Dairy Stores is a chain of convenience stores in Maryland and Delaware. It once had locations in Virginia, and Washington, D.C. as well, many of which have been converted to 7-Elevens. The company is based in Hanover, Maryland.- History :...
  
  
• KaleidoScoops
  KaleidoScoops
  KaleidoScoops is an American chain of ice cream shops. It was founded in 1999 by a co-operative of former Baskin-Robbins franchisees after the termination of their franchises...
  
  
• Kopp's Frozen Custard
  Kopp's Frozen Custard
  Kopp's Frozen Custard is a restaurant chain located in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. It specializes in frozen custard and large "jumbo" hamburgers. Founded by Elsa Kopp in 1950, the restaurants continue to be heralded by local publications for their quality food...
  
  

• Lappert's
  Lappert's
  Lappert's is an ice cream manufacturer, producing "super-premium" ice cream, based in Hawaii and Richmond, CA. The company runs the largest ice cream chain in Hawaii....
  
  
• Lares Ice Cream Parlor
  Lares Ice Cream Parlor
  The Lares Ice Cream Parlor is a famous ice cream store located in the town of Lares, Puerto Rico.The ice cream store was founded in 1968 by Salvador Barreto and has an array of over 1,000 flavors...
  
  
• Laura Secord Chocolates
  Laura Secord Chocolates
  Laura Secord is a Canadian chocolatier and ice cream company which was founded in 1913 by Frank P. O'Connor. It was named after the Canadian War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord. As of 2010, it has 125 retail outlets across the country....
  
  
• Leon's Frozen Custard
  Leon's Frozen Custard
  Leon's Frozen Custard is a classic 1950s-style family owned drive-in, specializing in frozen custard, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It opened in 1942 and is considered a landmark in the city of Milwaukee....
  
  
• MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery
  MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery
  MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery is a chain of independently owned and operated franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and other desserts. It is a franchise brand in the portfolio of Global Franchise Group. The first MaggieMoo's opened in 1989 in Kansas City, Kansas...
  
  
• Marble Slab Creamery
  Marble Slab Creamery
  Marble Slab Creamery is a chain of independently owned and operated franchised stores that specialize in serving ice cream and a variety of other desserts. It is a franchise brand in the portfolio of Global Franchise Group LLC...
  
  
• Margie's Candies
  Margie's Candies
  Margie’s Candies is the name of two popular confectioneries on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. Owned by the same family, each one is part candy store and part sit-down ice cream parlor...
  
  
• Mauds Ice Cream
  Mauds Ice Cream
  Mauds Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturer with stores in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Their ice cream has over 162 flavours and is distributed to stores all over Ireland...
  
  
• Max and Mina's
  Max and Mina's
  Max and Mina's is a Jewish-run ice cream store in New York City. Owned by Bruce Becker, it is known for its ever-changing eccentric ice cream flavors, such as Cajun, Lox, Purple mint Chip, beer, malt, and Isaac Mizrahi....
  
  
• Maypole Ice Cream
  Maypole Dairy Products
  Maypole Dairy Products Ltd. is Canadian foodservice company founded in 1950. Based in Etobicoke, Ontario, the company operates restaurants, dairies, and ice cream parlours featuring its signature product....
  
  
• Meadows Frozen Custard
  Meadows Frozen Custard
  The Meadows Frozen Custard is a franchise founded in 1950 that specializes in frozen custard.-History:Delbert Meadows opened a small custard stand in Duncansville, Pennsylvania. After decades of business, the Meadows brothers decided to add batting cages, mini golf, and go-karts to their location...
  
  
• Mövenpick Ice Cream
  Mövenpick Ice Cream
  Mövenpick Ice Cream is a brand of ice cream of Swiss origin produced by the Nestlé corporation. In April 2003, Nestlé bought the international rights for Mövenpick ice cream, and an independent business unit called Swiss Premium Ice Cream was created...
  
  
• New Zealand Natural
  New Zealand Natural
  New Zealand Natural is a chain of franchise ice cream and juice shops in shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The Ice cream is also available at supermarkets throughout New Zealand and Australia.-Company history:...
  
  
• Newport Creamery
  Newport Creamery
  Newport Creamery is a chain of restaurants in Southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The company is based in Middletown, Rhode Island.The restaurant was founded in 1940 when a local dairy owner named Samuel Rector founded a small restaurant in Middletown, Rhode Island. In the 1950s and 1960s, the...
  
  
• Oberweis Dairy
  Oberweis Dairy
  Oberweis Dairy, headquartered in North Aurora, Illinois, is the parent company of several dairy-related operations in the midwest region of the United States...
  
  
• Penn State University Creamery
  Penn State University Creamery
  The Pennsylvania State University Creamery, often shortened to just Berkey Creamery or The Creamery, is a producer and vendor of ice cream, sherbet, and cheese, all made through the Department of Food Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences of the Pennsylvania State University...
  
  
• Piccomolo Ice Cream
  Piccomolo Ice Cream
  Piccomolo Ice Cream is a chain of ice cream stores in the United States, specializing in gelato and other Italian frozen desserts. The name comes from conjoining the Italian words piccolo meaning small and molle meaning soft.-History:...
  
  
• Polish Water Ice
  Polish Water Ice
  Polish Water Ice is an is an East Coast regional chain based in Exton, Pennsylvania, serving Italian ice and frozen custard.-History:Polish Water Ice was founded in 1997 by Thomas B. Curyto, Sr. He opened his first store in Ocean City, New Jersey. Since, it has expanded to over 10 locations....
  
  
• Rita's Italian Ice
• San Francisco Creamery
  San Francisco Creamery
  The San Francisco Creamery is a restaurant and ice cream shop in Walnut Creek, California, known for its "kitchen sink sundae", an ice cream dish featured on season 2 of Man v. Food. Ingredients include three bananas, eight scoops of ice cream, eight servings of toppings, whipped cream, almonds and...
  
  
• Sanders Confectionery
  Sanders Confectionery
  Sanders Confectionery is a company formed in Detroit in 1875, best known to those in the midwestern United States for its assortment of ice cream, toppings, bumpy cakes and candies...
  
  
• Sarris Candies
  Sarris Candies
  Sarris Candies is a specialty chocolate and candies company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, approximately 18 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1960 by Frank Sarris. Address: Sarris Candies Inc. 511 Adams Avenue Canonsburg, PA 15317.- History :Frank Sarris Sarris Candies is a...
  
  
• Shake's Frozen Custard
  Shake's Frozen Custard
  Shake's Frozen Custard is a frozen custard retailer founded by Don and Debbie Osborne in Joplin, Missouri in 1991. It was originally opened as Shakey's Frozen Custard but was changed to Shake's in 2001 in order to secure trademarks. Don and Debbie experimented with a variety of recipes and menu...
  
  
• SnoWizard
  SnoWizard
  Sno-Wizard is a New Orleans, Louisiana based sno-ball company. It was founded by George J. Ortolano in 1937.- The History :In 1936, Ortolano noticed a gathering of customers at a nearby snow cone business and was inspired to add this inexpensive treat to his grocery store to generate additional...
  
  
• Steve's Ice Cream
  Steve's Ice Cream
  Steve's Ice Cream was an ice-cream parlor chain which attracted media attention and long lines when owner Steve Herrell opened his first establishment at 191 Elm Street in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1973. It introduced the concept of super-premium ice cream and customized ice cream desserts using...
  
  
• Strickland's Frozen Custard
  Strickland's Frozen Custard
  Strickland's Frozen Custard is an American ice cream chain, based in Akron, Ohio and with 14 locations in Ohio, Florida, California, and South Carolina. The chain was founded in 1936 by Bill and Florence Strickland of Akron. Strickland's makes its ice cream fresh on-site daily, and generally...
  
  
• Swensen's Ice Cream
  Swensen's
  Swensen's is a global chain of ice cream restaurants that started in San Francisco, California.-History:The company was started in 1948 by Earle Swensen. Swensen opened his first shop at the corner of Union and Hyde Streets, along the cable car tracks in Russian Hill in San Francisco at what had...
  
  
• Tastee-Freez
  Tastee-Freez
  Tastee-Freez is a Newport Beach, California-based franchised chain of fast-food restaurants with stores in 22 of the United States, with most of its stores located in Virginia, Illinois and Maryland. Currently there are fewer than 100 freestanding stores in the United States and Panama. It was...
  
  
• TCBY
  TCBY
  TCBY is an international franchise chain of frozen yogurt stores based in the United States. It is the largest U.S. retailer of soft-serve frozen yogurt with live active cultures....
  
  
• Ted Drewes
  Ted Drewes
  Ted Drewes is a frozen custard shop in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The original St. Louis shop on Natural Bridge Road operated from 1930 to 1958. The Chippewa Street is open much of the year, the South Grand Boulevard location is open in summer. The Chippewa location is open until around midnight...
  
  
• Toscanini's
  Toscanini's
  Toscanini's Ice Cream Company is an ice cream parlor and café in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1982. It has won the Best of Boston award for best ice cream in 1997, 2009, and 2010, as well as other Best of Boston awards...
  
  
• Twistee Treat
  Twistee Treat
  Twistee Treat is a franchised chain of ice cream restaurants, founded in 1983 in North Fort Myers, Florida. The restaurants are characterized by buildings shaped in the form of soft-serve ice cream cones....
  
  
• Vic's Ice Cream
  Vic's Ice Cream
  Vic's Ice Cream is a restaurant located in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento, California. Best known for its ice cream, Vic's also serves sandwiches and other menu items.-Atmosphere:...
  
  
• Wall's ice cream
  Wall's ice cream
  Wall's is a United Kingdom-originated food brand, covering both meat products and ice cream, owned by Unilever. Founded in London in 1786 by butcher Richard Wall, it was acquired in 1922 by Lever Brothers, which became a part of Unilever in 1930. To avoid summer lay-offs due to the down turn in its...
  
  
• Wemple and Edicks
  Wemple and Edicks
  Wemple and Edicks is an ice cream store located in Johnstown, New York. The store has home-made ice cream, as well as an annual craft fair, in which they sponsor local art. All of the ice cream is created in the store itself, which was founded in 1826. Wemple and Edicks is reported to make an...
  
  
• Wendy's Supa Sundaes
• Wheeler's Frozen Dessert Co.
  Wheeler's Frozen Dessert Co.
  Wheeler's Frozen Dessert Co. is a microcreamery located in Boston, Massachusetts. The store sells ice cream made from blends of coconut, almond, cashew, rice, and soy milks. It is completely dairy-free, and is often marketed to vegan and lactose intolerant consumers. The storefront was founded by...
  
  
• Whitey's Ice Cream
  Whitey's Ice Cream
  Whitey's Ice Cream is an ice-cream parlor chain based in Moline, Illinois. This ice cream has been an icon of the Illinois and Iowa Quad Cities since it was founded in 1933.-History:...
  
  
• Yogen Früz
  Yogen Früz
  Yogen Früz is an international chain of frozen yogurt and smoothie stores that also serves healthy alternative food products. Through company-owned, franchised, and non traditional partnerships, Yogen Früz is the largest franchisor and licensor of stores and other locations that serve primarily...
  
  
• Yogurtland
  Yogurtland
  Yogurtland is an international franchise chain of frozen yogurt stores based in Anaheim, Orange County, California.Yogurtland offers self-serve soft-serve frozen yogurt with active cultures. Yogurtland has stores in seven states in the United States and in Mexico and Japan. In 2009, it had a...