Pre-Opening Radar

Florida restaurants that filed to open, months before they do.

The state's pre-opening plan reviews, pulled every day, with the phone and email each filing carries. Most are still months from opening when they file; you get there before anyone has quoted the job.

Counts cover the 30 days ending August 11, 2026. They count fixed-premises restaurant filings only, so mobile units and carts are excluded, as are shared-kitchen and commissary addresses. Restaurants that were already operating when they filed are excluded too: a plan review is also filed for a remodel or an equipment change, and those are not openings. Rows are then deduplicated, so counts are businesses and not database rows. The state's raw file lists 536 filings over the same window before those exclusions. Tampa Bay's seven counties are Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, Manatee, Sarasota and Polk. Licensing rate measured by survival analysis over 3,226 seated filings since 2025-07-01, which corrects for filings not licensed yet.

Email your counties for a free sample →

Or see the last 30 days of live filings, statewide, right now. Contacts withheld on that page.

Speed

Every day, not once a week

RadarThe weekly national list*
New filingsSame day the state posts themWeekly, 49 weeks a year
DatabaseLive off the state feedRe-cleaned 4 times a year

The state publishes plan reviews on its own schedule, so neither of us can beat it to a filing. The difference is what happens after: this feed is pulled every morning, so a filing reaches you the day the state posts it, while a weekly list can sit on it for up to a week, longer in the three weeks a year it does not publish.
* The weekly and 4-times-a-year figures are theirs, published on their own site. Re-checked 2026-08-02: they still state weekly delivery, 49 weeks a year, pausing for Thanksgiving, Christmas and July 4th.

The record

One CSV row per restaurant

Restaurant nameas filed with the state
Street addresscity, county, ZIP
Filed datethe day the plan review hit the state
Estimated opening windowearliest and median dates
Facility typeseated, take-out, catering, other
Phone and emailas carried on the filing

No sample rows on this page on purpose; the contacts are real. Ask and a current list for your counties lands in your inbox.

Fit

Built for two trades

Hood and exhaust cleaning

NFPA 96

A new kitchen needs a cleaning schedule from the day it opens. The filing tells you which kitchens are coming, and when.

Kitchen fire suppression

ANSUL

Fire suppression runs on the same clock. It is sold separately, so a fire company and a hood company can each hold the same county.

Exclusivity

One county, one trade, one company

Straight talk

What this is

Radar is raw state filings, earlier and cheaper. Nobody phones each restaurant to confirm the contact first, so some rows reach a permit agent or a general contractor instead of the owner. A human-checked list is a different product at a different price; this is the filing itself, months sooner.

Get a sample for your counties

Email your counties and your trade. You get back the actual rows for the last 30 days, contacts included.

aaron.p.morabito@gmail.com
(503) 862-9205

Aaron Morabito builds and runs Radar. The phone is Oregon; the coverage is Florida.