The International Frozen Yogurt Association and Frozen Dessert University from Carpigiani North America are teaming up to present The Business of Frozen Yogurt — a free, live, one‑hour online class designed to give operators the insights and tools they need to build a modern, profitable froyo offering.
The International Frozen Yogurt Association and the Frozen Dessert University from Carpigiani North America are teaming up to present The Business of Frozen Yogurt, a free, live, one‑hour online class that brings together real‑world insights, hands‑on demonstrations, and the latest market intelligence.
Here’s our tally of froyo openings in 2025 by country. If you like making comparisons, here’s last year’s tally by country. You’ll notice the most growth occurring in Australia, Lebanon, and Venezuela, while there were fewer openings in Argentina, the Philippines, and South Korea.
Froyo shop visit frequency and loyalty were stable for the past few years, but we saw a few changes this year, including a large increase in the percentage of respondents who have reduced froyo consumption due to price (56% in 2024 vs. 37% in 2023). That’s the majority of respondents, for the first time. On a more positive note, 79% of respondents said they were willing to pay more for high quality froyo.
Our anniversary is also the perfect time for a mid-year check-in for the frozen yogurt industry. The good news is that the number of frozen yogurt shops worldwide is steadily increasing. We found 346 new froyo shops that opened in the first half of the year (i.e., January – June 2024), compared to 307 new shops for the same period in 2023. This represents an increase of 12.7%. The Philippines had the most froyo shop openings out of all countries this year.
Looking at worldwide search traffic for frozen yogurt over the last 12 months (i.e., June 2023 – June 2024), the top five regions were 1. United States, 2. Australia, 3. Kuwait, 4. Canada, 5. Israel. Kuwait and Israel are new to the top five. Last year, the countries in order of search interest were 1. United States, 2. Canada, 3. Australia, 4. Lebanon, 5. New Zealand. Google adjusts for differences in the population size of countries by using the proportion of all search queries rather than looking at the absolute query count.
December 2023 was a flurry of froyo activity. It seemed like new froyo shops were opening every day. We found 91 froyo shop openings in 21 countries December, compared to 62 openings in 19 countries in November 2023. In December 2022, we found 53 froyo shop openings in 22 countries. As you can see, the pace of froyo activity has increased, thanks to the new froyo shops in Asia.
For our last post of the year, we’d like to recap the significant froyo events of 2023. And there was good news, the post-pandemic recovery continued and the number of new froyo shops worldwide increased by 46% this year. We also review the year in new froyo flavors, IFYA news, and froyo industry news.
For our last post of the year, we’d like to recap the froyo events of 2022. While things were looking better for restaurants in general, rising costs and supply chain shortages continued to be the main concerns. However, there was a sense of normalcy as many trade shows resumed in-person events and mask requirements were […]
In October 2022, we invited frozen yogurt shop owners in the United States to take an anonymous online survey. The anonymous online survey asked about operational practices, shop and owner characteristics, supplier satisfaction, concerns, and shop performance. The goals of the survey were to provide shop owners with benchmarks for assessing how they compare to […]
