Texas Bar & Restaurant Sales Rankings (Mixed Beverage Data)

See how much alcohol every bar, restaurant, hotel and venue in Texas sells, and rank them. This Actor turns the Texas Comptroller's official Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts data (monthly liquor, wine, beer and cover-charge sales for every mixed-beverage permit holder) into ready-to-use venue rankings, with:

• Trailing-12-month sales (total and by liquor, wine, beer and cover charge)
• Year-over-year growth versus the prior 12 months
• Latest complete month, detected automatically (the newest month is usually still partial)
• Rank in city and county
• New venue flag (first-ever report in the last 12 months) and possibly closed flag (stopped reporting)

Or switch to monthly mode to export the raw month-by-month records for any date range back to 2007.

There's no login, no scraping and no proxies. It uses the official data.texas.gov open-data API, with aggregation done server-side, so runs are fast and cheap. A county takes seconds; all ~26,000 active Texas venues take about 4–5 minutes.

Who uses this

• Beverage distributors, brand reps and suppliers: find the highest-volume accounts in a territory and spot fast-growing venues
• Restaurant POS, payments, staffing, security and insurance sales teams: prioritize prospects by real revenue signals
• Commercial real estate and restaurant brokers: benchmark a location against the neighborhood
• Investors and analysts: track nightlife and hospitality trends by city, county or ZIP
• Local journalists and researchers: "top-selling bars in [city]" stories, openings and closures

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 rows, plus Apify's standard tiny per-run start fee.

• A county ranking of a few hundred venues costs under $1.
• The full statewide venue table (~26,000 rows) costs about $78.
• Set a max cost per run and the Actor stops at your limit.

Input

Field	Description	Default
mode	venues (rankings and summaries) or monthly (raw monthly records)	venues
counties	Texas county names, e.g. ["Harris", "Travis"]	all
cities	City names, e.g. ["Austin"]	all
zipCodes	5-digit ZIPs	all
nameContains	Venue or owner name substring, e.g. "Twin Peaks"	—
minTrailing12Total	Minimum 12-month sales in $ (venues mode)	0
onlyNewVenues	Only venues that first reported in the last 12 months	false
onlyPossiblyClosed	Only venues that stopped reporting before the latest month	false
sortBy	trailing12Total, latestMonthTotal, yoyChangePct, name	trailing12Total
asOfMonth	YYYY-MM. Defaults to the latest complete month	auto
monthsBack / startMonth / endMonth	Date range for monthly mode	last 3 months
maxResults	Row cap	1000

Example: top 50 Lubbock venues by 12-month sales

{ "mode": "venues", "counties": ["Lubbock"], "maxResults": 50 }

Example: new bars and restaurants in Travis County doing at least $250k a year

{ "counties": ["Travis"], "onlyNewVenues": true, "minTrailing12Total": 250000 }

Output (venues mode)

{
  "venueId": "32082974620-1",
  "venueName": "LITTLE WOODROW'S",
  "ownerName": "LW LUBBOCK LLC",
  "address": "6313 66TH ST",
  "city": "LUBBOCK",
  "zip": "79424",
  "county": "Lubbock",
  "tabcPermitNumber": "MB200065171",
  "asOfMonth": "2026-08",
  "latestMonthTotal": 252353,
  "trailing12Total": 3172096,
  "trailing12Liquor": 1795347,
  "trailing12Wine": 10366,
  "trailing12Beer": 1366383,
  "trailing12CoverCharge": 0,
  "monthsReportedLast12": 12,
  "avgMonthlyTotal": 264341,
  "prior12Total": 3258140,
  "yoyChangePct": -2.6,
  "firstReportedMonth": "2022-07",
  "lastReportedMonth": "2026-08",
  "isNewVenue": false,
  "possiblyClosed": false,
  "rankInCity": 2,
  "rankInCounty": 2
}

Monthly mode returns one row per venue per month with liquorReceipts, wineReceipts, beerReceipts, coverChargeReceipts, totalReceipts and the owner's mailing address. Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or use the API.

How the numbers work

• Receipts are gross receipts as reported to the Comptroller under Tax Code Ch. 183, in US dollars, and cover alcoholic beverage sales (plus cover charges). Food sales are not included.
• A venue is one Comptroller taxpayer number plus location number. A change of ownership creates a new taxpayer, so "new venue" can mean a new opening or a new owner at an existing location.
• "Possibly closed" means the venue reported in the last 12 months but not for the latest complete month. It may have closed, changed owners, or simply filed late.
• YoY change is shown only when the venue has a full 12 months in both periods.
• Ranks are computed within the area you queried (county and city), by trailing-12-month sales.
• The latest month is chosen automatically as the newest month where at least 90% of venues have reported.

Notes

• Data source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts (data.texas.gov, dataset naix-2893), public under the Texas Public Information Act. This Actor is not affiliated with the State of Texas.
• Requests are polite: 1 second between pages, per data.texas.gov's robots.txt crawl delay, with automatic retries.
• Works with the Apify API, schedules, webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n and the Apify MCP server for AI agents.

FAQ

How current is it? Venues report monthly, about 20 days after month end. Each run queries live data and uses the latest complete month.

Can I get the whole state? Yes. Leave all filters empty and set maxResults to 30000.

Does it include food or total restaurant revenue? No. Only alcohol (and cover charge) receipts are reported in this dataset.