Florida Liquor Licenses — New, Temporary & Transfers (Daily)

Know a bar or restaurant is opening before it picks its vendors.

This Actor reads Florida's official alcohol-licence records every day and returns the venues that just changed — including the ones that have not opened yet.

Why temporary licences matter

When a venue is fitting out, Florida commonly issues a temporary certificate so it can trade while the permanent licence is processed. That certificate is public, it is dated, and it carries the premises address.

It is the earliest public signal that a specific address is about to become a bar or a restaurant — months before a listing, a review, or a sign on the door. If you sell to hospitality (point-of-sale, payments, insurance, linen, distribution, POS hardware, kitchen equipment), that is the moment worth knowing about.

What you get

One row per venue, with:

field
dba_name	the trading name
applicant_name	the licence holder
address, city, county, zip	the premises, not a mailing address
license_id	Florida's own licence number, verifiable on the state's lookup
license_series	e.g. 4COP (full liquor), 2APS (beer & wine package)
status	temporary, active, pending
lead_type	see below
effective_date	the state's own date
detected_at	when this Actor first saw the change
source	attribution, on every row

Lead types

• current_temporary — trading on a temporary certificate right now. The pre-opening pool; the first run returns all of them.
• new_temporary — newly appeared on a temporary certificate.
• transfer_pending — the licence is changing hands. New owner, often a new concept at an existing address.
• new_active / temp_to_active / activated — newly issued or newly permanent.

How it runs

The first run returns the current standing pool of venues on temporary certificates (recently ~360). Every run after that returns only what changed since the previous run — typically a handful to a few dozen a day. State is kept in the Actor's own key-value store, so it diffs against its last run automatically.

Set it on a daily schedule around 13:00 UTC; Florida refreshes its file each weekday morning Eastern.

Pricing

Priced per venue returned, so you pay for what you actually get rather than a flat fee in a quiet week. A run that finds nothing costs essentially nothing.

Source and limits

• Data is verbatim from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco — public records — normalised into a consistent schema. The source is cited on every row.
• No contact data. No phone numbers, no email addresses, no owner-hunting. Those are not in the public record and this Actor does not go looking for them elsewhere.
• Florida only. Every state publishes differently; this Actor covers Florida properly rather than several states badly.
• Some records carry a placeholder or escrow address rather than a real premises. Those are filtered out.