11.0% closed in 2023, the newest year in the Census Business Dynamics Statistics, and 10.6% in an average year over the last five years with data.
Profitability
Is an ice cream shop profitable in Maine?
What the public record says about businesses like an ice cream shop in Maine: how many open and close each year against the national rate, how many are still open after each year, and a calculator for the margin your own numbers leave.
11.0%of accommodation and food services establishments in Maine closed in 2023
11.6% opened that year, among 3,508 establishments. Over the last five years with data, 10.6% closed in an average year in Maine, against 9.4% nationally.
- Closed in 2023
- 11.0%
- Opened in 2023
- 11.6%
- United States, closed
- 9.1%
- Net income, % of receipts (2023)
- 3.4%
What these figures include
The Census publishes these dynamics by sector, not by kind of business, so the figures are for every establishment in accommodation and food services (NAICS 72), which is where the Census counts ice cream shops.
- Still open after 1 year (modeled)
- N/A
- Still open after 5 years (modeled)
- N/A
Profit margin calculator for an ice cream shop
Your sales and costs, the margin they leave and the sales that break even. Nothing is stored.
Profit margin19.1%$8,600 a month before income tax
Sole proprietors in restaurants and drinking places reported net income of 3.4% of receipts on their 2023 returns (IRS Statistics of Income). That figure is after the owner's own draw only when they paid themselves wages, so compare with care.
- Break-even sales
- $22,368 A month of sales at which profit is zero with these costs.
- Cost of goods
- $13,500
- Labor
- $14,400
- Rent, charges and other fixed costs
- $8,500 Rent plus charges is 11.1% of sales; DoorWorthy plans 8% to 10% as a healthy share for ice cream shops.
From the odds to a location
- How many are thereCensus counts of ice cream shops by state and metro area, per 10,000 residents, with the change over five years. See the counts
- The free location checkOne address measured from public records: who lives and works nearby, the ice cream shops already there and the traffic on the road.
Have an address in mind?
Check the address freeNo account. The ice cream shop check reads public records at the address itself.
Sources and dates
U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (establishment entry and exit rates by sector and state, 2023); IRS Statistics of Income, sole proprietorship returns 2023. Establishments with paid employees.