Liquor-licence applications, health and building permits, press and a daily web pass, fused, deduplicated and researched into one sheet every Sunday. For the people who sell to new restaurants.
Start a free 2-week trial Open a live sampleFour rows from this week's sheet, as a rep would see them. Every row has a street address, a status and a source.
| Status | Venue | Where | What | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COMING SOON | Goulash House | Carnegie | Chicken paprikash and paprika-red goulash from traditional Hungarian recipes are coming to Carnegie's Noblestown Road, w… | Opening soon |
| COMING SOON | Saba Origin Coffee | Cranberry Township | Saba Origin Coffee is bringing its Yemeni coffee north to Cranberry: 100% high-mountain beans from one of the oldest cof… | Opening soon |
| COMING SOON | Dynamic Coffee (Hamilton Ave café) | Larimer | The old KLVN Coffee Lab roastery café on Hamilton Ave gets a second act as the third café from Dynamic Coffee, the local… | Coming soon, no date yet |
| COMING SOON | Cupcake PGH | Allentown | Horror-themed cupcakes that won a following at local metal shows now get a home on Allentown's goth-leaning Arlington Av… | Opening date TBD |
Pending liquor licences (months ahead), health and building permits (weeks ahead), 80+ local press feeds and a daily web discovery pass by neighbourhood.
Every signal is checked against everything seen before. The ones with substance are researched against the venue's own site, press, Google and Yelp, so "new" means new.
A filterable page and a CSV per metro. New signals on top, the researched openings with concept, timing, website and Instagram. No login, no app.
Live today in three. Any US metro with public liquor and permit data can be added in about two weeks; the next ones are chosen by request.
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The honest version. There are three ways reps find new restaurants today, and each is missing something.
| Press and driving around | Licence scrapers | Lead-list services | Opening Soon PRO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sources | Newspaper roundups, window paper | One public record | One or two records plus phone research | Four: liquor, health and building permits, 80+ press feeds, daily web discovery |
| How early | Opening week, usually after | When the record posts | Days to weeks | Months on liquor filings, weeks on permits |
| "New" is verified | No, roundups recycle last year's openings | No, raw rows | Partly | Yes, every substantive lead researched against the venue's site, press, Google and Yelp |
| Depth per metro | A handful a week | Everything, including noise | About 40 a month advertised | 300+ signals a month in Pittsburgh, 50+ fully researched |
| What a row tells you | A name | A licence number and address | Name, address, sometimes a contact | Name, address, concept, timing, website, Instagram, source, and why the feed skipped it |
| Price | Your Saturday | Cents per row, then your time | $200 to $1,000 a month | $99 a month per metro, cancel any time |
| Proof it works | Testimonials | A public feed posting a verified opening a day, for months |
Lead-list column reflects the published offers of Preopening Restaurants Resource, What Now and Restaurant Activity Report as checked on 2026-11-06; licence scrapers are the per-record feeds sold on Apify. Where we are weaker: we do not supply owner phone numbers or personal emails, by choice, and we cover three metros today.
The sheet keeps what the public feed skips. A chain unit, a suburban franchise or a second location is a lead for you even when it is not a story for us.
Operators pick their POS, distributor and insurer during the build-out, months before opening day. The rep who calls first usually gets the account. This is the list of who to call this week.
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Public records (state liquor-licence applications, county health permits, city building permits), published local press, venue websites and public business listings. Business data only. Every row links to its source.
Liquor applications land months before opening; permits and pre-opening inspections weeks before; press usually last. The same system has posted openings on Instagram two weeks ahead of any press coverage.
Yes. The public feed skips chain units; the sheet keeps them and says why they were skipped, because a new unit is still a new account for you.
Any US metro with public liquor and permit data can be added in about two weeks. Ask.
No. We publish the business, its address, website and social handle, and the licensee name when it is on the public filing. We do not scrape personal emails or phone numbers.