New Restaurant & Bar Openings Monitor – Liquor License & Business License Leads (US)

Get a daily feed of newly opened restaurants, bars, cafes, breweries, caterers and liquor stores, built straight from official government open data: new business licenses, new business locations and new liquor licenses. Ideal for restaurant lead generation. Each lead includes the business name, legal entity, address, ZIP, license type and opening date, plus coordinates where available.

Turn on delta mode and schedule it daily: you only get (and pay for) openings you haven't seen before.

Coverage (official sources, no scraping)

Source	What counts as an "opening"	Update cadence
Chicago, IL: City of Chicago Business Licenses	New (ISSUE) Retail Food, Tavern, Consumption-on-Premises, Caterer and Package Goods licenses	Daily
San Francisco, CA: DataSF Registered Business Locations	New locations with NAICS 722 (restaurants & bars) / 4453 (liquor stores)	Weekly
Los Angeles, CA: LA Office of Finance Active Businesses	New locations with NAICS 722 / 4453	Weekly
New York State: State Liquor Authority active licenses	New on-premises (restaurant, tavern, club, F&B), off-premises and catering licenses, including new owners of existing venues	Daily
Texas: TABC licenses & permits	New mixed-beverage, wine & beer retailer (on/off premise), private club and package store permits	Daily

All data comes from the public Socrata open-data APIs of each government. No login, no proxies, no website scraping. Each record carries the sourceUrl of its dataset.

Who uses new restaurant opening leads?

• Food & beverage distributors (broadline, produce, coffee, beer, wine & spirits): reach new accounts before they pick a supplier
• Restaurant POS, payroll, online ordering & reservation SaaS sales teams
• Linen, uniform, grease trap, hood cleaning, pest control, waste and cleaning services
• Commercial insurance agents, equipment lessors, merchant services, signage and marketing agencies
• Commercial real estate brokers and market analysts tracking restaurant openings by neighborhood

Input

{
  "sources": ["chicago", "new_york_state", "texas"],
  "venueTypes": ["on_premise"],
  "daysBack": 30,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "cities": ["Austin", "Brooklyn"],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "keywords": ["brewery", "pizza"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

venueTypes: on_premise (restaurants, bars, cafes, clubs), off_premise_alcohol (liquor and package stores, grocery beer & wine), caterers_mobile (caterers, food trucks, shared kitchens).

Output example

{
  "recordId": "tx-tabc:200201558",
  "businessName": "Nevermore Tavern",
  "legalName": "Nevermore Tavern, LLC",
  "address": "170 W Main St",
  "city": "Lewisville", "state": "TX", "zip": "75057",
  "venueType": "on_premise",
  "licenseType": "Mixed Beverage Permit",
  "eventDate": "2026-10-09",
  "eventType": "new_liquor_license",
  "source": "texas",
  "sourceUrl": "https://data.texas.gov/d/7hf9-qc9f"
}

In a test run on Oct 10, 2026 with a 30-day window, on-premise only, the Actor returned 1,000 openings in about 3 seconds (NY 758, TX 177, Chicago 37, SF 22, LA 6).

Pricing

Pay per opening record returned (see the Pricing tab). With delta mode on, repeat runs only bill new openings.

Tips

• Schedule daily with onlyNewSinceLastRun: true and send new rows to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack or email through Apify integrations, Make, Zapier or n8n.
• "New liquor license" includes ownership changes of existing venues. These are often the best sales moment, because new owners re-pick vendors.
• Records are public business-license data. Use them for B2B outreach in line with CAN-SPAM, TCPA and local rules.

FAQ

Why not Google Maps? License data shows openings weeks before a place appears or gets reviews on Maps, and it's official. Can you add my city/state? Yes. Open an issue. Any city with a Socrata or ArcGIS business-license dataset can be added quickly.