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Fountain City Scoops & Floats

Ice Cream & Classic Soda Floats in Kansas City’s City Market

Business Overview

Fountain City Scoops & Floats is an ice cream shop located inside City Market, serving scoops, shakes, malts, and creative soda floats. The shop offers 16 rotating ice cream flavors that can be served in cups, cones, shakes, or malts, giving visitors a classic ice cream counter experience while exploring the River Market district. Guests can enjoy simple scoops or build custom treats topped with options like crushed Oreos, toasted coconut, rainbow sprinkles, caramel, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and other rotating candies.

What makes Fountain City Scoops unique is its connection to KC Soda Co., located next door. Visitors can pair their ice cream with any of the 1,000 different soda varieties available at KC Soda Co. to create custom soda floats with nearly endless flavor combinations. Classic floats like root beer, vanilla cream, grape, pineapple, lime, orange, and black cherry are available, but customers can also experiment with sodas such as bubble gum, cotton candy, cherry limeade, mango orange, green apple, peach, ginger, and many more. This combination of soda shop nostalgia and creative flavor mixing makes Fountain City Scoops & Floats a fun stop for families, tourists, and anyone exploring the City Market.

Our Story

Fountain City Scoops opened in 2023 as an expansion connected to KC Soda Co. in Kansas City’s City Market. The concept builds on the tradition of classic American soda fountains, where ice cream and soda come together to create floats that have been a favorite treat for generations.

Root beer floats are often considered a classic American dessert, but the shop expands that idea by encouraging customers to experiment with different soda and ice cream pairings. With access to the large soda selection next door and a rotating lineup of ice cream flavors, guests can create floats that range from traditional to completely unique.

The shop focuses on offering simple, customizable treats that visitors can enjoy while exploring the River Market. Whether someone chooses a traditional scoop of ice cream or builds a creative float using a unique soda flavor, Fountain City Scoops adds a playful dessert stop to the City Market experience.

Ice Cream Scoops & Cones

Fountain City Scoops serves 16 rotating ice cream flavors that can be ordered in several ways. Guests can choose a half scoop, single scoop, double scoop, or triple scoop served in a cup, sugar cone, or cake cone, with waffle cones available as an upgrade. Ice cream can also be blended into shakes or malts, offering another way to enjoy the shop’s rotating flavors.

To personalize each treat, customers can add toppings such as crushed Reese’s pieces, toasted coconut, mini chocolate chips, crushed Oreos, graham cracker crumbs, caramel topping, butterscotch topping, marshmallow crème, rainbow sprinkles, whipped cream, and other rotating candies. This variety of toppings allows guests to customize their dessert and create combinations that fit their taste.

Creative Soda Floats

The signature experience at Fountain City Scoops is creating custom soda floats. Guests can start with classic float flavors like root beer, vanilla cream, grape, pineapple, lime, orange, or black cherry and add one or two scoops of ice cream.

Because the shop sits next door to KC Soda Co., customers can also choose from the 1,000 soda varieties available there and turn any soda into a float by adding ice cream. This opens the door to creative combinations using flavors like bubble gum, cotton candy, strawberry, cherry limeade, green apple, watermelon strawberry, mango orange, blueberry, peach, ginger, or birch beer.

Who Will Love This Spot

  • Families visiting Kansas City’s City Market
  • Kids and adults who love classic ice cream treats
  • Visitors exploring the River Market looking for dessert
  • Soda enthusiasts wanting to experiment with float combinations
  • Anyone looking for a quick sweet treat while shopping the market

Located in the Heart of Kansas City’s City Market

Fountain City Scoops is located inside Historic City Market in downtown Kansas City, next door to KC Soda Co. in the River Market district. Its location places it within walking distance of the farmers market, specialty shops, and restaurants throughout the market area.

Visitors exploring the market can easily stop in for a scoop of ice cream or create a custom soda float before continuing to explore nearby merchants. The shop is also close to City Market parking areas and public transit options that serve downtown Kansas City.

Address:
419 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64105

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