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

How have SBA loans to Rita's Ice-Custard-Happiness franchisees turned out?

Of 58 loans approved in fiscal 2002 to 2018 (at least five years old), 5 (8.6%) were charged off by the lender, against 17.0% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years. Rita's Ice-Custard-Happiness appears on 58 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2002 to 2018, $11.9 million in gross approvals. These are loans, not a rating.
Not financial, legal or franchise advice. This page reports what the SBA's loan file records for SBA-guaranteed loans. A charge-off rate is not a rating of a brand or an industry, it does not predict a new loan, and a franchisee's loan is not a measure of the franchisor. Read the franchise's disclosure document and talk to a lender or an adviser before you borrow.
Rita's Ice-Custard-HappinessFranchise brand · 58 loans
9%of seasoned loans charged off
  1. Rita's Ice-Custard-Happiness appears on 58 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2002 to 2018, $11.9 million in gross approvals.
  2. Of 58 loans approved in fiscal 2002 to 2018 (at least five years old), 5 (8.6%) were charged off by the lender, against 17.0% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years.
  3. 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.
0%19%Fiscal 2014: 0 of 11 loans charged off (0.0%)Fiscal 2015: 1 of 18 loans charged off (5.6%)Fiscal 2016: 3 of 16 loans charged off (18.8%)201420152016
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 yearLoansApprovedPaid in fullCharged offNot yet resolvedCharged-off share
FY20021$300,000100few loans
FY20061$200,000100few loans
FY20081$350,000100few loans
FY201411$2.0 million11000.0%
FY201518$4.2 million17105.6%
FY201616$3.5 million133018.8%
FY20178$1.1 million710few loans
FY20182$252,000200few loans

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.

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