Fountain City Scoops & Floats

Fountain City Scoops & Floats is Lucas Thompson’s ice cream and soda-float counter at 419 Main St inside the City Market, in the River Market — next door to his own KC Soda Co., with a pass-through window so any craft soda from the bottle shop can be turned into a float. Opened July 15, 2023. Sixteen rotating ice cream flavors, 21 house soda bases, 25+ toppings; every base item under $5.

Description

Fountain City Scoops & Floats is an ice cream and soda-fountain counter at 419 Main Street inside Kansas City’s historic City Market. It opened on July 15, 2023 as a companion to owner Lucas Thompson’s adjacent craft-soda bottle shop, KC Soda Co. The two storefronts are connected by a pass-through window: a customer can buy any bottle from the soda shop’s shelves and have it handed through to be built into a float on the ice cream side.

The counter carries sixteen rotating ice cream flavors, served as half, single, double or triple scoops in a cup, sugar cone or cake cone, plus shakes and malts. Floats are built from a list of 21 house soda bases — root beer, vanilla cream, black cherry, cherry limeade, bubble gum, cotton candy, birch beer and others — or from any bottle on the KC Soda Co. side. More than 25 toppings are offered, including crushed Oreos, toasted coconut, chocolate-covered espresso beans, crushed pecan pralines and rotating candies.

At opening, Thompson told Startland News he had deliberately kept every base menu item under $5 so families with varying budgets could use the shop, and described the concept as an old-fashioned ice cream parlor offering “a momentary escape.” He also outlined plans at that time for soda and kombucha taps and for seasonal float flavors made with fruit sourced from other City Market vendors; whether those were implemented is not established by any source read.¹ Thompson is also the owner of Mass Street Soda in Lawrence, Kansas and a co-founder of the Breakout KC escape rooms in the River Market.²

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: fcscoops.com (first-party)³ · menu_status: verified · Confidence: High — prices published first-party on the operator’s own site. No aggregator was used.

Scoops

• 1/2 scoop — $1.99³
• Single scoop — $2.99³
• Double scoop — $3.99³
• Triple scoop — $4.99³
• Shake or malt — $4.99³
• Sugar cone, cake cone or cup included; waffle cone +$0.79³
• Sixteen rotating ice cream flavors (specific flavors rotate and are not listed on the site)³⁴

Floats

• One-scoop float — $3.89³
• Two-scoop float — $4.89³
• Any bottle from KC Soda Co. may be used instead: cost of the soda, +$1.50 for one scoop or +$2.50 for two³
• House soda bases (21): root beer, diet root beer, vanilla cream, red cream, blue cream, grape, pineapple, lime, orange, black cherry, cherry limeade, bubble gum, cotton candy, strawberry, green apple, watermelon, strawberry mango, orange, blueberry, peach ginger, birch beer³

Toppings

• Any topping on a scoop or float — $0.50 each³
• Whipped cream, rainbow sprinkles, butterscotch topping, caramel topping, marshmallow creme, chocolate syrup, crushed Butterfinger, crushed Reese’s, crushed Oreos, toasted coconut, chocolate-covered espresso beans, graham cracker crumbs, mini chocolate chips, mini butterscotch chips, gummy worms, gummy bears, crushed peanuts, crushed pecan pralines, rotating candies³

Priced items recorded: 9 (plus two per-item modifiers).

Sources

Links

• Website: https://www.fcscoops.com/
• City Market listing: https://thecitymarketkc.org/merchants/fc-scoops/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fcscoops/

Footnotes

1. Startland News — “KC’s ‘vacation ice cream parlor’ floats into City Market; scooping two passions into one sweet escape” (July 2023) — asserts: owner Lucas Thompson; opened July 15, 2023; 419 Main Street; 16 ice cream flavors, 21 soda bases, 25+ toppings; the pass-through connection to Thompson’s adjacent KC Soda Co.; all base menu items priced under $5 as a deliberate accessibility choice; Thompson’s stated future plans for soda and kombucha taps and seasonal fruit floats sourced from City Market vendors. ↩

2. Flatland KC — “KC Soda Co. Pops Bottles at The City Market” (September 14, 2017) — asserts: Lucas Thompson owns KC Soda Co. and Mass Street Soda (1103 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS) and co-founded Breakout KC. ↩

3. Fountain City Scoops & Floats — official site — asserts: 419 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64105; hours Mon–Sat 11 a.m.–6 p.m. and Sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; email info@fcscoops.com; Instagram @fcscoops and Facebook fcscoops; 16 rotating ice cream flavors; the full scoop, float and topping price list reproduced above; the 21 house soda bases; the KC Soda Co. bottle-to-float option at +$1.50 / +$2.50. Site live and returning HTTP 200 on 2026-08-13. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

4. The City Market — official merchant listing, “Fountain City Scoops & Floats” — asserts: active City Market merchant as of 2026-08-13; 419 Main Street, location 2B; opened 2023; 16 rotating ice cream flavors; half/single/double/triple scoops in cups or cones; toppings including crushed Oreos, toasted coconut and caramel; adjacency to KC Soda Co. and the shared float offering. (Accessed 2026-08-13.) ↩