Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise

Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise was started because in 1934, Tom Carvel borrowed $15 from his future wife Agnes, filled a battered vending truck with ice cream, and drove off in search of the American dream. His truck broke down in Hartsdale, NY, but the dream never faltered. On that very site, Tom Carvel started selling his ice cream that would one day become New York City's number one ice cream brand and would create a cult-like following that has existed for over 70 years.

Today, you are pursuing your own American dream, and Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise welcomes the opportunity to share the many reasons why you should consider a Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise.

Our vision is simple. We want Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise to be a national player in the ice cream industry, an innovator in franchising and a "best in class" employer. This is what gets us up in the morning.

At Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise, we believe in promoting Carvel through multiple types of venues. The Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise is a unique concept that allows our franchisees to offer our delicious ice cream products in a wide range of locations and opportunities.

The time is right and the reasons plentiful for you to get in on the ground floor of a rapidly growing company. Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise currently operates over 500 franchised and food service locations, and is part of FOCUS Brands Inc, owner of Carvel, Cinnabon and certain international markets of Seattle's Best Coffee.

One of the most important aspects of owning a franchise is support of your operation. The Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise operations department provides you with many areas of support, including field and corporate operations, design and construction, purchasing, and marketing.

The Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise store was designed as an “ice cream factory” with each franchisee making over 200 menu items in each Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise store. Creating everything in the store allows our Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchisees to promote themselves as the “freshest” ice cream offering in their community while producing the highest quality ice cream products.

Carvel Express is designed for flexibility to allow the sale of Carvel ice cream in captive audience locations and co-branding situations where there is less demand for our world famous ice cream cakes, or there are space limitations for the production of certain menu items. Examples of these type of venues are:

Mall Food Courts

Kiosks

Co-brand with other food franchise concepts

Military bases

Airports & Travel Plazas

Universities & Colleges

Hospitals and large corporate food centers

We have several options for Carvel Ice Cream Food Franchise Express based on product demand, square footage of the location, and the type of venue.

Established: 1934
1^st Franchised: 1947
Franchised Units: 550 +
Cash Investment: $120K from Non-Borrowed Funds
Franchise Fee: $30K (Full Store)
 Franchise Fee: $15 K  (Carvel Express)