New Liquor License Leads — TX & CA (Restaurant & Bar Openings)

Fresh pre-opening restaurant and bar leads, straight from official state liquor-license records. A new liquor-license application means a bar, restaurant, or store is opening in the next ~30–90 days — the perfect moment to reach them, before your competitors do.

Built for sales teams that sell TO food-service businesses:

• 🍽️ Restaurant suppliers & equipment dealers
• 💳 POS and merchant-services reps
• 🍺 Beverage distributors
• 📋 Insurance brokers & payroll providers
• 🏢 Commercial real-estate and signage/build-out services

Why this Actor is reliable

It reads official government sources, not third-party directories:

State	Source	Freshness
Texas	Official TABC records — pending applications and newly issued licenses	Updated daily by the state
California	Official ABC new-application records	Published every business day

Because the data comes straight from the state, there's nothing to block and nothing to break on a website redesign. Volume: Texas alone produced ~390 leads in a 7-day window (measured 2026-07-16).

Two lead types

• pending_application — license applied for; the business is in build-out/opening mode. Earliest signal. (TX + CA)
• newly_issued — license granted; opening is imminent or just happened. Confirmed signal. (TX)

Delta mode: only what's new

Turn on Only new since last run and schedule the Actor daily or weekly: every run returns only leads you haven't seen before. Deduplication is per license number, so a business filing several subordinate permits at once (e.g. mixed-beverage + late-hours) shows up as one lead, not three. Pipe it straight into your CRM, a Google Sheet, Slack, or an n8n/Make/Zapier workflow via the Apify integrations.

Output example

{
  "leadType": "pending_application",
  "state": "TX",
  "licenseNumber": "200200469",
  "applicationId": "623452",
  "licenseType": "BQ",
  "licenseTypeDescription": "Wine and Malt Beverage Retailer's Off-Premise Permit",
  "status": "Received",
  "businessName": "El Gato Drive Thru and BBQ",
  "ownerName": "El Gato Drive Thru and BBQ LLC",
  "address": "1104 N Garcia St STE A",
  "city": "Roma",
  "county": "Starr",
  "zip": "785845592",
  "eventDate": "2026-07-16",
  "source": "Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission open data (pending applications)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://…official TABC record…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-16T21:20:21.874Z"
}

Filter by county (e.g. only Harris + Dallas) and by license type code (e.g. only MB mixed-beverage = full bars) right in the input.

Notes & honest limits

• License-type descriptions are decoded for the common codes (TX: MB, P, Q, BG, BQ, BW, BP, W, G, N, NT, FB, LH — CA: 20, 21, 40, 41, 42, 47, 48, 51, 57, 58). Rare codes pass through raw with licenseTypeDescription: null — never guessed.
• CA rows carry the ABC action code in status (e.g. PEND / ORI = original application, PER = person-to-person transfer, PRM = premises transfer). Transfers are leads too — a location changing hands buys new services.
• CA businessName comes from the report's DBA: line when present.
• Trade names (businessName) come straight from the state records — filled on ~85% of TX rows (some filings list only the owning entity). A field the state left empty is simply omitted from that row, never emitted as a null column.
• Coverage today: TX + CA — the two biggest restaurant markets. More states are planned; ask for yours in the Issues tab and it moves up the list.
• All data comes from openly public government pages/APIs. No logins, no CAPTCHA bypassing, nothing gated.

Scheduling recipe (recommended)

1. Set Only new since last run = on.
2. Create a Schedule: daily at 9am (or Mon/Thu for weekly digests).
3. Add an integration: Google Sheets append, Slack message, webhook, or Make/n8n/Zapier.

Each run then delivers a clean drop of brand-new openings in your territory.