Texas New Restaurant & Bar Permits: Pre-Opening Leads

Find new Texas restaurants, bars, coffee shops, caterers and food trucks before they open. Each new food & drink outlet that registers for a Texas sales-tax permit is listed, along with its planned first-sales date, the owner entity, and chain grouping.

Data comes only from the official Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Active Sales Tax Permit Holders open dataset (data.texas.gov, Socrata API jrea-zgmq, refreshed daily). There's no scraping, no logins and no proxies, so runs are fast and cheap. Sole-proprietor personal names and home mailing addresses are removed; only business/entity names are kept.

Who it's for

• POS, payments, payroll and restaurant-tech sales teams
• Food & beverage distributors, suppliers and equipment vendors
• Insurance, staffing, marketing and delivery platforms
• Market researchers tracking restaurant openings by city or county

Input

Field	Default	Description
daysBack	30	Permits issued in the last N days
city	–	Outlet city (e.g. Austin, Houston)
county	–	Texas county name (e.g. Travis, Harris, Dallas)
categories	all	NAICS 722 sub-categories: full-service, limited-service, cafeteria, snack/coffee bar, bar/drinking place, contractor, caterer, food truck
newOutletsOnly	true	Drop re-issued permits for outlets that were already selling
upcomingOnly	false	Only outlets whose planned first-sales date is today or later
onlyNew	false	De-dup across runs: output only records that are NEW or UPDATED since your last run
dedupStoreName	tx-restaurant-permits-seen	Name of the memory store used by onlyNew
webhookUrl	–	POST results as JSON to Zapier / Make / n8n / your CRM
maxItems	500	Max results

Output (one row per outlet)

outletName, category, naicsCode, address, city, county, zip, permitIssueDate, firstSalesDate, daysUntilFirstSales, preOpening, taxpayerName, taxpayerNumber, ownershipType, chainKey, taxpayerOutletCount, isChain, mailingAddress, changeType (NEW/UPDATED/UNCHANGED), firstSeenAt, source.

{"outletName":"FULL TIME FOOD","category":"Caterer","address":"3400 Comsouth Dr","city":"Austin","county":"Travis","zip":"78744","permitIssueDate":"2026-10-23","firstSalesDate":"2026-10-23","preOpening":false,"taxpayerName":"FULL TIME FOOD LLC","taxpayerOutletCount":1,"isChain":false,"ownershipType":"LLC","changeType":"NEW"}

Chain grouping: taxpayerOutletCount is how many active permitted outlets the same taxpayer has across Texas, and isChain is true at 3 or more. chainKey is a normalized brand name (store numbers and LLC/INC removed), so you can group franchise locations that have different owners.

Tips

• Schedule it daily with onlyNew: true and a webhookUrl to get a fresh lead feed with no duplicates.
• Sort by daysUntilFirstSales to reach owners while they're still choosing vendors.

Limits

The Comptroller dataset lists active permits only, and the planned first-sales date is what the applicant reported. No phone or email is included in the source data.

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