Find the restaurants that need you this week.

We pulled three cities' records on Nov 4. Here's what was sitting there.

Every row has a business name, an address and a date. Most have the inspector's notes too. It's updated every day or every week. It costs nothing.

Somebody in each of those kitchens has a problem with a deadline on it. If you sell the fix, that's your list.

Pulled from each city's open data site on 4 Nov 2026. Your numbers will be different by the time you read this. That's the point.

Each one comes with a clock

Resonant looked at what happened right before Grease Trap Cleaners' best customers bought. Three kinds of public record kept showing up. They don't move at the same speed.

Five steps, once a week

1. 1

   Find your city's or county's records

   Health inspections are usually run by the county. Permits are usually the city. Search for these:

   [your county] food inspection data

   [your city] building permits open data

   [your city] business licenses open data

   Look for a site with "data" in the address, like data.cityofchicago.org. If your county only has a lookup page and no download, that's common. Check the next county over or the city. There's a note under the table below too.

2. 2

   Filter to last week

   Most of these sites have a Filter button. No code needed.

   • Inspections: the last 7 days, results that failed, closed or need a re-inspection.
   • Permits: the last 30 days, descriptions with the words for your work: grease, interceptor, hood, kitchen, restaurant.
   • Licenses: new food licenses issued in the last 30 days.
3. 3

   Export it

   Hit Export and download the CSV. On the bigger sites you can save the filter, so next week it's one click.

4. 4

   Let ChatGPT sort it

   Upload the file to ChatGPT or Claude with the prompt below. It throws out what doesn't fit you and gives you a short list with the reason for each one.

   Sorting thousands of rows every week? A classifier built for yes-or-no calls, like Jev from Type Safe AI, does the same sort faster and cheaper than a chat tool. Write down exactly what counts as a yes first. The definition does the work.

5. 5

   Find who to talk to

   For an independent kitchen, the owner or the kitchen manager picks the vendors. Their name is often on the website, the Google listing or the license record.

   • Call the restaurant between lunch and dinner and ask who handles your service.
   • No name? Email the general inbox and name who you're trying to reach.
   • A chain location usually buys through head office. Skip it or go find head office.

Places that publish it and what to filter

We checked each of these on 4 Nov 2026. All of them had been updated in the last few weeks.

Not every county publishes a download. Some only have a search page. You can still check it by hand for the kitchens already on your list. Or send us your city and we'll look.

Paste this with your file

I've attached public [health inspection / building permit / business license] records for [CITY OR COUNTY].

I sell [WHAT YOU SELL] to [KIND OF KITCHEN, E.G. INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS] in [YOUR SERVICE AREA].

1. Keep only rows where the violation, permit or license relates to what I sell. [EXAMPLES OF WHAT COUNTS, E.G. PLUMBING, GREASE, FLOOR DRAINS, PESTS]
2. Remove chains that buy through head office and anything outside my service area.
3. For each one left, give me: business name, address, date of the record, the one-line reason in plain English and how soon to reach out (a citation or closure: this week; a permit: within 10 weeks of the permit date; a new owner or opening: now).
4. Sort it so the most urgent is at the top.
5. Only use what's in the file. If something isn't there, leave it blank. Don't guess names, phone numbers or emails.

Use the signal to pick who. Don't put it in your opener.