New Florida liquor license and restaurant filings: where to find them
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) publishes restaurant plan reviews (the earliest signal: the owner has submitted building plans for review), new food-service licenses and new alcohol licenses. It is a public record, updated daily, and anyone can read it.
In the last 30 days we recorded 1,402 Florida filings, picked up a median of 2 days after the filing date. 77% of them have a phone number on file.
What the agency publishes
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) makes these records public: restaurant plan reviews (the earliest signal: the owner has submitted building plans for review), new food-service licenses and new alcohol licenses. A record shows who applied, the premises address, the license type and a date. That is enough to know a venue is on its way, and to know which stage it has reached.
Plan reviews arrive before the license does, so a restaurant often appears here weeks before it appears on a map. They also tend to carry the owner's contact details, which the later license records do not.
Read it yourself, for free
The source is open. If you have the time, you can pull it directly:
Filter to the license types that matter to you, drop duplicates, and check the newest rows each morning. The catch is the daily work, and that many records leave out a phone number or email.
What Ribbon Leads adds
We read DBPR's filings daily, fold duplicate rows into one venue, label the stage, and match a phone number and website where we can find one. You get the new ones by email instead of a spreadsheet to maintain. The free Monday list is the same filings, seven days behind and without contact details.
Recent Florida filings
The public view, 7 days behind and without contact details.
Cities with the most filings
Orlando · Miami · Tampa · Jacksonville · Fort Lauderdale · Ocala · Sarasota · Pensacola · West Palm Beach · Kissimmee · Tallahassee · Fort Myers
Common questions
Is this list public?
Yes. These are public records, and DBPR publishes them. Ribbon Leads is not affiliated with any government agency; it reads the published record and says where each row came from.
How soon after a filing does the venue open?
It varies. An application means the owner has started the process, not that a date is set. Build-out, inspections and approvals can take weeks to many months, which is the window a supplier or service company has to reach them first.
Does every filing have a phone number?
No. Many records carry none, and in some states almost none do. We match a phone and website where we can find them; the share for Florida is shown above.
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