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Toronto-based D-Spot Dessert Café opens July 11 in Carrollton with build-your-own sweets, late hours, and plans for broader U.S. expansion.
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Toronto-based D-Spot Dessert Café opens its first American location on July 11, 2026, bringing a 55-unit dessert brand to 3432 E Hebron Parkway in Carrollton. The franchised shop is run by local partners Abdul Khan and Faizan Mirza and mixes the chain’s build-your-own sweets with a slate of savory crowd-pleasers.
The concept started in 2014 in Scarborough, Ontario, and has since grown to 55 units. A fresh leadership shift also sets the tone for growth stateside. A press release by D Spot Dessert Café announced on June 15, 2026, that veteran franchising executive Kaan Sayiner was named president and CEO, tasked with driving disciplined expansion and operational excellence.
Here is how the café plays: guests build personalized crepes or waffles from batters made daily, then layer on toppings like ice cream, Lotus Cookie Butter, cheesecake bites, Smarties or white chocolate pearls. The menu stretches well past sweets with Belgian waffles, milk cakes, milkshakes, coffee-based drinks, tea and dirty sodas, plus burgers, pizza, pasta, wings and poutine to round things out. The Dallas café operates daily from 11 AM to midnight, with late hours to 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays at 3432 E Hebron Parkway, Suite 100, serving guests across the northern Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Abdul Khan called the opening “an important milestone for our team,” pointing to Dallas’s vibrant food culture and the partners’ commitment to “quality, creativity, and warm hospitality.” Sayiner framed the move within a broader plan, saying, “With a strong Canadian footprint, we’re excited to bring our dessert experience to new communities as part of our broader U.S. expansion.”
For operators watching the numbers, the initial franchise fee for a full-menu D-Spot location is $35,000, with total startup costs ranging from $785,250 to $1,843,300 and ongoing royalties set at 5% (plus a 4% national brand fund fee), according to the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document. The timing lines up with what diners want, too. Popmenu’s 2026 Restaurant Trends to Watch report finds build-your-own dishes up 12% from the prior year as personalization keeps driving orders. A recent NBC Right Now feature also notes that $5 cookies and gourmet ice cream lines are still a late-night staple, a sign that guests will pay for premium treats.
The Dallas launch marks a clear milestone in the brand’s planned U.S. roll-out, with additional units slated for Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and Nashville. Specific opening dates remain undisclosed, and average unit volume data are not published, so near-term performance signals will come from Dallas first.
Dallas will serve as a test bed for D-Spot’s dessert café format, a litmus test for how a Toronto-honed model translates in a highly competitive U.S. dining market. If late-night traffic and customization trends break the brand’s way, expect faster franchise development across key cities and a higher profile for dessert-first destinations.