High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world`s largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are located in the United States. Baskin-Robbins sells ice cream in over 30 countries, including Nepal, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Bahrain, the United Kingdom, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Bangladesh, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Pakistan, Panama, and the Republic of China (Taiwan). The company is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts.