Top Dessert Franchise Opportunities of 2022
From classic ice cream shops to mouth-watering pastry bakeries, here are our favorite dessert franchises to satisfy that sweet tooth in 2022.
Who doesn’t dream of opening up a dessert business when they are a kid? The endless cookies and ice cream, non-stop fun and Willy Wonka-esque wonderment is enough to make the career appealing to any child, but it’s the potential for a healthy return on investment that keeps people interested as they grow older.
For investors looking to enter a unique and joyful segment of the foodservice industry, dessert brands offer a lucrative opportunity to satisfy post-date-night customers and families in search of a weekend treat. Plus, since dessert establishments offer customers a much-needed reprieve from counting calories and worrying about what they are eating, business owners benefit from an offering that markets itself — when it's time to indulge, customers know where to go.
Best of all, many dessert franchise concepts feature incredibly simple operations, minimal equipment and staffing requirements, low start-up costs and universally beloved brand names.
These are 1851 Franchise’s favorite dessert franchises for 2022.
Mooyah Burgers Fries & Shakes
- Start-up costs: $551,918-$715,161
- Units: 84
Fosters Freeze
- Start-up costs: $611,500-$1,009,000
- Units: 68
Marble Slab Creamery*
- Start-up costs: $316,285-$409,935
- Units: 130+
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Culver’s
- Start-up costs: $2,300,000-$5,400,000
- Units: 765
Le Macaron
- Start-up costs: $84,350-$361,500
- Units: 60+
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
- Start-up costs: $641,000-$2,100,000
- Units: 386
Baskin-Robbins
- Start-up costs: $124,000-$559,000
- Units: 7,921
Dairy Queen*
- Start-up costs: $1,100,000-$1,900,000
- Units: 7,034
Great American Cookies*
- Start-up costs: $301,400-$469,150
- Units: 240+
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Paris Baguette*
- Start-up costs: $528,270-$1,638,554
- Units: 4,000+
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