Section 1
Command View
Live market pulse and this week's lead story.
IRL flagged 2,998 of Florida's 59,721 active restaurant licenses as anomalous this week; 47 sit in the high-risk band.
The weekly brief turns inspection severity, closure signals, and license context into a plain-English read on where restaurant risk is moving out of the normal peer range.
Section 2
Metro Intelligence
Start with the market closest to where you eat, operate, or report.
Miami
9,129 active licenses10 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardFort Lauderdale
5,441 active licenses4 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardWest Palm Beach
4,146 active licenses7 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardOrlando
8,783 active licenses34 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardTampa Bay
8,409 active licenses25 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardJacksonville
4,916 active licenses12 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardFlorida Keys
801 active licenses0 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardTreasure Coast
1,814 active licenses2 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardSouthwest Florida
4,389 active licenses11 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardNorth Florida
1,765 active licenses3 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Section 3
Velocity & Momentum
TSE is the newsroom's early-warning read on unusual movement in inspection, license, and closure records. It points readers toward records worth a closer look; it does not declare that a restaurant will close.
Section 4
Analytical Layer
Deep-dive reports by cuisine — validation notes, safety overlays, and a full audit trail per cuisine group.
Pizza
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Chronological evolutionItalian
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Safety guideChinese
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Chronological evolutionThai
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Classification guideSushi / Japanese
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Vibe listIsraeli
4 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Safety guideMexican
10 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Safety guideCuban
4 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Vibe listCaribbean
4 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Classification guideIndian
5 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Chronological evolutionVietnamese
5 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Classification guideKorean
5 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Community anchorLGBTQ-Friendly
0 metro essays plus statewide. Updated 2026-05-22.
Section 5
Browse by county
Baker, Osceola, and Lake lead the closure-rate table in the current public-record window.
Section 6
Drilldowns & Entity Lookup
Compare the cuisines readers ask about first, then drill into closure rate and same-address ownership turnover.
Pizza
5.7% closure rate173 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineItalian
5.5% closure rate26 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineSushi
3.7% closure rate56 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineAsian
0.0% closure rate10 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineMexican
5.3% closure rate60 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineCuban
5.9% closure rate37 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineChinese
4.7% closure rate39 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineJapanese
6.0% closure rate16 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineSeafood
4.7% closure rate90 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineAmerican
6.7% closure rate83 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineFast Food
10.6% closure rate176 supertransition addresses tracked
CuisineSandwiches
13.3% closure rate49 supertransition addresses tracked
Section 7
Intelligence Briefs
Reported reads anchored to inspection data. Data tools follow the story, not the other way around.
Cuisine turnover is moving fastest in the current pressure lanes
Donuts leads the current closure-rate table at 40.1%, with 8 supertransition addresses tracked.
Semiannual · ORSMThe six-month outlook flags the operators and licenses carrying closure risk
ORSM currently classifies 37 scored licenses at high closure risk across Florida.
Monthly · FRIIThe statewide industry read: active base, closures, openings, ownership change
Florida has 59,721 active restaurant licenses and 4,793 closure-status licenses in the current public-record base.
Quarterly · SPISurvival pressure is visible in the closure-rate proxy
The statewide closure-status rate is 8.0%, before local rent, labor, tourism, and saturation pressure are layered in.
About FRI Analytics
FRI Analytics is RiskyEats' public-record desk for Florida restaurant inspections, license status, closures, and operator pressure.
The work combines reported narrative briefs with reproducible data views so readers can move from the front-page story to the underlying county, metro, cuisine, and operator records.
Every published claim is grounded in public records or labeled as a model-based forecast.
Data providers: DBPR, Sunbiz, OSS Places, Overture, Time-Series Layer, US Census.