Pick a state, or take all of them.
Every plan is month to month with a 7-day free trial. Your card isn't charged until the trial ends, and canceling is one click on your account page (how that works). Not ready? Look at a sample first.
One state, every morning
- An email each morning with the new filings
- What each venue runs: POS, online ordering, reservations, website builder
- Phone, email and website when we can match them (see the table below)
- Every stage: plans, applications, temporary licenses, inspections, issued
- Filter by category or stage: bars only, or plans only
- CSV export, any date range, from your first payment
- 7-day free trial: the morning email, every filing
All 11 states and 11 metro areas + API
- Everything in Market, every state we cover
- New states added at no charge
- JSON API and webhook delivery, with
runs_onon every row, from your first payment - CSV export, any date range, from your first payment
- 7-day free trial: the morning email, every filing
Comparable products sell one city for $999 a month, or a hand-researched national list from about $200. Ribbon reads the public record itself every morning, so it costs less and arrives sooner.
Filings, phone numbers and speed, by state
Counted from the database for the last 30 days, and recalculated every few minutes. A phone number is only added when a public map listing matches the venue's street address and name, so states that don't publish phones on the filing carry fewer. Across every state, 613 of this month's venues had a website and 58 of those had their ordering or POS system on record.
| State | Filings, 30 days | With a phone | Days from filing to inbox | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,300 | 16% | 3 | National |
| Florida | 1,442 | 85% | 2 | Market or National |
| California | 431 | 4% | 2 | National |
| Oklahoma | 85 | 0% | 1 | National |
| Oregon | 50 | 0% | 10 | National |
| New York | 2,554 | 19% | 1 | National |
| Missouri | 330 | 96% | 1 | Market or National |
| Illinois (Chicago) | 101 | 0% | 1 | National |
| North Carolina (Wake County) | 19 | 79% | 2 | National |
| Ohio (Columbus) | 25 | 100% | 1 | National |
| Virginia (Fairfax County, Norfolk) | 28 | 0% | 1 | National |
| Kentucky (Louisville) | 3 | 0% | 3 | National |
| Washington | 80 | 96% | 8 | Market or National |
| Nevada (Las Vegas) | 31 | 94% | 8 | National |
| Louisiana (New Orleans) | 7 | 100% | 5 | National |
| Massachusetts (Boston) | 10 | 90% | 13 | National |
| Connecticut | 112 | 0% | 0 | National |
| Colorado | 19 | 0% | 18 | National |
| Delaware | 21 | 0% | 16 | National |
| District of Columbia (Washington) | 41 | 0% | 10 | National |
| Tennessee (Nashville) | 14 | 0% | 9 | National |
| Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | 108 | 0% | 11 | National |
Why can Market only be bought for Florida, Missouri, Washington? Those are the states where enough filings carry a phone number to be worth $99 on their own. The others are in National and on the free state pages.
What's in a record
| Field | Public site | Subscribers |
|---|---|---|
| Venue name, owner or licensee | ✓ | ✓ |
| Address, city, county, zip | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stage and license type, filing date | ✓ | ✓ |
| Category (bar, restaurant, cafe…) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Phone number | – | ✓ when matched |
| – | ✓ when on the filing (Florida plan reviews carry it) | |
| Website, map pin, Google category | – | ✓ when matched |
| What the venue runs: POS, ordering, reservations, site builder, email tool | kind of tool only | ✓ named, when the venue has a website |
| Link to the official record | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timing | 7 days behind | The morning it appears |
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Where does the data come from?
State alcohol boards (Texas TABC, California ABC, Florida DBPR, Oklahoma ABLE, Oregon OLCC, New York SLA, Missouri ATC, Washington LCB), health departments (NYC DOHMH, Florida Hotels & Restaurants) and city licensing (Chicago, Seattle, Boston, New Orleans, Las Vegas and more). All public, and every source is listed with its last update on the sources page.
How do you know what a venue runs?
From its own public website. When a page offers online ordering through Toast, or bookings through OpenTable, the page talks to those services, and we record which ones. We keep the names of the tools and the page title, nothing else from the site. A venue that has no website yet has no tools on record; most new venues get a site in the weeks before opening, and we look again when one appears.
Couldn't I get this from the agencies myself?
Yes, it's all public. It is spread across more than a dozen government data feeds in different formats, some of which only load in a real browser. We read all of them every morning, remove duplicates, sort each venue into a category, look up its phone number and its tools, and put the earliest stages first. If you'd rather do that yourself, the sources page links every one.
How fast is it?
You get a filing the morning after the agency publishes it. Agencies usually publish a filing 1 to 2 days after its date, so most rows reach you within 2 days of being filed. The table above shows the real figure for each state.
Is every record matched to a phone number?
No. Florida and New York City publish some contact details on the filing; most states don't. We match the rest against public map listings and only add a phone when the street address and name agree. The table above shows how many filings actually had one last month.
I'm a contractor. Can I get only the earliest filings?
Yes. On your account page, tick Plans filed and your morning email only carries kitchens whose plans are still with the health department, usually months before opening. Florida publishes plan reviews; here is last week's sample.
Can I switch states?
Yes, any time from your account page. Market plans hold one state at a time.
What does the trial include?
The morning email, exactly as a paying subscriber gets it: every new filing, phone numbers and what each venue runs. The CSV export, the API and the webhook unlock with your first payment. That is deliberate: the feed is a daily habit, not a one-off download.
Can I cancel?
One click on the account page, effective at the end of the period. No email or call needed.
I signed up before the price changed. What do I pay?
What you signed up at. A price change applies to new subscriptions only; yours stays where it was until you cancel.
Do you sell my details or contact the venues?
No. Your details are used to deliver the feed and bill you. We never contact the venues in the data.