IRL flagged 4,437 of Florida's 60,295 active restaurant licenses as anomalous this week; 247 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.
The Briefing
Today's pulse — the latest openings, closings, and risk alerts, each linking straight to the record.
Risk Anomaly: Florida (Statewide Series)
In the latest period, Florida (Statewide Series) triggered a moderate anomaly alert, deviating from historical baselines. No single metric dominated; the alert reflects a diffuse departure from this metro's historical baseline.
Dining News Digest: Miami
296 openings / 9 closures tracked recently.
Kill-Zone: Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach (Jacksonville) leads at a 55.8% closure rate across 24 closures.
Today's movers
Metros by anomaly severity
| Metro | Magnitude |
|---|---|
| Florida (statewide) | 0.26 |
Cuisines by failure rate
| Cuisine | Failure rate |
|---|---|
| Cafe | 64.8% |
| Italian & Pizza | 61.0% |
Maps & Rankings
Explore Florida by place, and see who is getting riskier or safer.
Start with your metro
Miami
9,257 active licenses23 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardFort Lauderdale
5,527 active licenses15 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardWest Palm Beach
4,212 active licenses14 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardPort St. Lucie
1,864 active licenses22 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardKey West
803 active licenses0 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardTampa
9,821 active licenses111 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardOrlando
14,347 active licenses375 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardJacksonville
4,703 active licenses170 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardFort Myers
7,639 active licenses76 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Metro dashboardTallahassee
2,048 active licenses43 closure-status records in the last 30 days
Browse by county
Hamilton, Lafayette, and Dixie lead the closure-rate table in the current public-record window.
Opening & Closing Trends
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.
Cuisine rankings
Full cuisine rankings →Mexican
3.6% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineCuban
4.8% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineChinese
3.3% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineSeafood
4.0% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineAmerican
4.1% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineFast Food
9.4% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineSandwiches
13.0% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineItalian & Pizza
4.3% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineCafe
6.3% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineDiner
3.9% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineDesserts
10.5% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
CuisineBar
3.7% closure rate0 same-address churn locations tracked
The Findings
Reported, data-driven narratives that lead with the insight, not the topic.
Latest investigations
Cuisine turnover is moving fastest in the current pressure lanes
Sandwiches leads the current closure-rate table at 13.0%, with 0 same-address churn locations tracked.
Semiannual · ORSMThe six-month outlook flags the operators and licenses carrying closure risk
ORSM currently classifies 17 scored licenses at high closure risk across Florida.
Monthly · FRIIThe statewide industry read: active base, closures, openings, ownership change
Florida has 60,295 active restaurant licenses and 3,486 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 5.8%, before local rent, labor, tourism, and saturation pressure are layered in.
Cuisine deep-dives
All cuisine guides →Pizza
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Chronological evolutionItalian
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Safety guideChinese
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Chronological evolutionThai
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Classification guideSushi / Japanese
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listIsraeli
4 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Safety guideMexican
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Safety guideCuban
4 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listCaribbean
4 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Classification guideIndian
5 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Chronological evolutionVietnamese
5 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Classification guideKorean
5 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listPeruvian
5 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listColombian
4 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listBrazilian
5 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listGreek / Mediterranean
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listSteakhouse
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listSeafood
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Vibe listSouthern & Soul Food
10 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Community anchorLGBTQ-Friendly
4 metro essays. Updated 2026-07-07.
Guides & Methods
How to read our data — cuisine explainers and our methodology.
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.
For reporters & analysts
Power tools with live data-freshness badges.
Ownership Atlas
Map operators, umbrellas, and multi-county portfolios.
updated today CuisinesCuisine Guides
Validated, public-record cuisine guides by metro.
updated today ForecastsClosure Forecasts
Calibrated 90-day closure-risk predictions.
updated today DrilldownsStatewide Drilldowns
County, cuisine, and supertransition analytics.
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