SBA loan outcome check · franchise brand · SBA data as of 30 September 2026

How have SBA loans to Cold Stone Creamery franchisees turned out?

Of 72 loans approved in fiscal 2003 to 2021 (at least five years old), 4 (5.6%) were charged off by the lender, against 15.7% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years. Cold Stone Creamery appears on 200 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2003 to 2026, $76.9 million in gross approvals. These are loans, not a rating.

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Cold Stone CreameryFranchise brand · 200 loans

6%of seasoned loans charged off

Cold Stone Creamery appears on 200 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2003 to 2026, $76.9 million in gross approvals.
Of 72 loans approved in fiscal 2003 to 2021 (at least five years old), 4 (5.6%) were charged off by the lender, against 15.7% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years.
A charge-off is a loan the lender wrote off. It is not a statement about the borrower, the brand or the franchisor, and it does not predict how a new loan will turn out.

share of this group's loans charged off, by approval year (years with 10+ loans)all 7(a) loans, same year

Every approval year

Approval year	Loans	Approved	Paid in full	Charged off	Not yet resolved	Charged-off share
FY2003	2	$500,000	0	2	0	few loans
FY2005	1	$475,000	0	1	0	few loans
FY2007	1	$435,000	0	1	0	few loans
FY2013	1	$380,000	1	0	0	few loans
FY2018	12	$2.8 million	6	0	6	0.0%
FY2019	14	$3.1 million	9	0	5	0.0%
FY2020	17	$5.0 million	9	0	8	0.0%
FY2021	24	$10.3 million	8	0	16	0.0%
FY2022	34	$10.3 million	6	1	27	too recent for a share
FY2023	26	$11.0 million	3	0	23	too recent for a share
FY2024	22	$10.8 million	1	0	21	too recent for a share
FY2025	33	$15.0 million	0	0	33	too recent for a share
FY2026	13	$6.6 million	0	0	13	too recent for a share

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA loan data as of 30 September 2026. SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans only, aggregated; no borrower or lender is shown. SBA open data.

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Compiled and checked by Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) from the SBA 7(a) FOIA loan data, as of 30 September 2026. Not an official source.