The Spring certainly is the Ice Cream growth period. There is a torrid race to brand and capitalize on the publics favorite dessert. Here are some of the current counts:
1. Rita's Italian Ice. Increased recently going from 342-361 units.
2. Maggie Moo's. Increased recently going from 181-190 units.
3. Cold Stone Creamery now has 1300 locations.
4. Marble Slam Creamery now has 326 locations.
5. Friendly's currently has 530 locations.
6. Baskin Robbins has more than 5600 locations.
I have also heard of a concept called Ray's Italian Ices which operates mostly in the NE who is so popular there's a never ending waiting list to become a franchisee. They are very hard to track down. I believe they have more than 50 locations.
About Me
- keith gellman
- My foodservice career began in my family's coffee shop at the age of four. I continued in the restaurant industry for the rest of my younger years. I received an A.A.S. in hotel technology from Sullivan County Community College in '80 and my B.S. in Hospitality from FIU in Miami in '83. My first corporate management job was as a Steak & Ale manager in the mid 80's. In the 90's I left operations and went into the publishing & market research end of the restaurant industry. Beginning in 1997, we began the Research Report for Foodservice. In 2004 we began the Restaurantchains.net project. We currently have thousands of subscribers to our various services. On the personal side, I met my wife in 2000 and we have a little girl.
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