New restaurant filings in Montgomery County, Baltimore County and Baltimore, Maryland

Pre-opening health inspection

Montgomery County, Maryland. County dataset updated daily, checked daily.

Pre-opening inspections of food service facilities by the county health department, the inspection required before a license is issued to a new facility or a new owner, with the establishment name, the licensed company and the premises. The county publishes no phone on the inspection record. The county licenses stores with food counters the same way, so some are included. Mobile units, seasonal and pool snack bars, temporary events, farmers markets, schools, institutions and the county's low-risk license category (office micro-markets, gyms and shops) are left out. The inspection result is on the record; a pre-opening inspection is not a confirmed opening.

Restaurant construction or change-of-occupancy permit

Baltimore County, Maryland (Towson, Owings Mills, Dundalk, Catonsville and the rest of the county around Baltimore City). County layer updated daily, checked daily.

Commercial building permits Baltimore County issued at a premises whose filed use or scope of work names a restaurant, cafe, deli, pizzeria, carry-out, bakery, tavern, a national restaurant brand or similar: alterations, additions, new buildings, fire sprinklers and kitchen-hood suppression, and grading for a drive-thru, dated by the issue date and filed as construction. A change-of-occupancy permit for a restaurant premises is filed as a registration: the county's approval of the premises for that use; each record says which. The permit does not name the restaurant operator or publish a phone; a business named in the filed text is as the applicant wrote it. The county publishes no city, so the city is the postal city of the ZIP. Sign, razing and temporary permits, fences, antennas, solar panels, tanks, cancelled and expired permits, conversions of a restaurant to another use, school, hospital, care-home, church, country-club and staff kitchens, and hotel and private-club restaurants are left out. A permit is not a confirmed opening.

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Restaurant liquor license transferred or newly issued

Baltimore, Maryland. City table refreshed daily, checked daily.

Restaurant and tavern liquor licenses Baltimore City's Board of Liquor License Commissioners transferred or newly issued in the last 90 days, dated by the board's own date. A transfer is filed as an ownership change: it moves a license to a new holder, to new premises or both, and the board's table does not say which or name the previous holder. A new license, one whose licensee is new to the board's records, is filed as a registration. Each record shows the trade name, the company that holds the license and the premises; the board publishes no phone. Package-goods stores, groceries, caterers, hotels, arenas, clubs run by non-profits, adult clubs, licenses held by a creditor and venues such as stadiums and axe-throwing bars are left out. A transfer or a new license is not a confirmed opening.

Restaurant use permit or construction permit

Baltimore, Maryland. City layer updated daily, checked daily.

Use and occupancy permits the City of Baltimore issued for a restaurant, carry-out or tavern, and commercial building permits at a premises the city classes that way, dated by the issue date. A use permit for a new or changed use is filed as a registration, one the city marks a change of operator as an ownership change, and a building permit as construction; each record says which. The permit names the project as the applicant wrote it, which is usually the business; the city publishes no phone and no ZIP. A use permit that only continues an existing use, sign, demolition-only, painting and sealcoating permits, gas tests and low-voltage wiring, grocery and convenience stores, taverns with tobacco sales, venues and clubs are left out. A permit is not a confirmed opening.

Franchise restaurant sold

Nationwide, a few a month. Checked daily.

When FranBizNetwork, the brokerage that runs Restaurant Intel, closes the sale of a franchise restaurant in Maryland, the sold location is in the report too: address, brand, close date and the business phone when the brokerage has it. It is our own sale record, not a government filing, and the row says so. Never the buyer, seller or price.