Ice Cream Shops Open, More Planned Nationwide

Several ice cream businesses are opening or expanding across the country. Lighthouse Ice Cream has opened a new Daytona Beach shop offering Hershey’s ice cream, floats, handcrafted sodas and local goods, while Los Angeles’ Beamz, which opened in September, makes California-inspired ice creams and sorbets in-house. Handel’s is marking its 200th location with a Camarillo, California, opening, extending a record year of growth for the franchise. In Tempe, Novel Ice Cream plans to open in early 2027 in the historic Harry Walker House, and Ohio’s Dell’s Ice Cream & Coffee is moving its cart at Hilliard’s Crooked Can brewery into a permanent food-hall space, with milkshakes and coffee joining its menu.