New restaurant filings in Virginia

Restaurant liquor license application or new license

Virginia, statewide. Daily state export, checked daily.

Retail restaurant license applications (beer, wine and mixed beverages) pending with Virginia ABC and the restaurant licenses it newly issues, from the daily licensee export, with the establishment phone the ABC publishes. Each record says which it is. Caterers, hotels, private clubs, gourmet shops and other specialty establishments are left out. An application is not an approved license or a confirmed opening, and an issued license is not a confirmed opening either; an existing restaurant can also apply, for example under a new owner.

New restaurant business license

Virginia Beach, Virginia. City table loaded about monthly, checked daily.

New city business licenses for restaurants, for mixed-beverage service and for retail food sellers that collect the meals tax (cafes, bakeries, pizza and ice cream shops), dated by the license begin date. The city lists new licenses only, not renewals, and loads its list about monthly, so a record arrives five to nine weeks after its date. The business phone the city publishes is included when the owner is a registered company and the number is listed at one address only. A new license can also go to an existing restaurant under a new owner; it is not a confirmed opening. In the retail food class, convenience, grocery and gas stores, hotel pantries and venue counters are left out by name. Caterers, mobile food vendors and personal chefs are not included.

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New restaurant business license

Norfolk, Virginia. City list updated on weekdays, checked daily.

Restaurants, cafeterias and snack shops newly licensed by the City of Norfolk's Commissioner of the Revenue, dated by the business opened date on the license in the last 90 days, at a premises in Norfolk. The city lists new licenses only, not renewals, but a new license can go to an existing restaurant, for example under a new owner, so it is not a confirmed opening. The city publishes no phone. Food trucks, special-event food vendors, caterers, home bakeries, contract cafeterias, airport and naval station counters, businesses with no Norfolk premises, mailboxes and people trading under their own names are left out.

New restaurant business license

Chesapeake / Newport News, Virginia. Chesapeake list loaded about monthly, Newport News table updated daily; checked daily.

New city business licenses for restaurants in Chesapeake and Newport News, with the business phone on the license when no other license shares it. Chesapeake's are dated by the license start date and Newport News's by the day the city created the license; a date still ahead is dated the day the record is first read. Chesapeake loads its list about monthly, so a record can arrive weeks late. A new license can also go to an existing restaurant under a new owner; it is not a confirmed opening. Caterers, food trucks, closed licenses, homes, apartments and mailboxes are left out, and so is a license under a person's own name.

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 Virginia, 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.