What is Buildout Feed?
Short answer
Buildout Feed is a daily signal fusion feed of NYC restaurants moving through pre-opening, from DOB filing through liquor license approval to first DOH inspection.
Buildout Feed is a daily NYC restaurant pre-opening feed. It watches every publicly available city and state signal that indicates a new restaurant is coming, then fuses those signals into one record per venue.
The four core data sources are the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB filings and permits), the New York State Liquor Authority (on-premises license applications and approvals), the NYC Department of Health (first inspections and grades), and the NYS Department of State (LLC formations).
A venue enters the digest when three independent signals corroborate at the same address, or two signals plus a high-confidence Google Places match. This keeps volume around 30 to 50 alerts per month, roughly one to two calls a day worth making.
Vendors serving NYC restaurants (spirits distributors, POS, insurance, hood cleaning, kitchen equipment, food distribution, uniforms) use Buildout Feed to reach operators at the exact stage that matches their sales window.