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Semiannual Closure-Pressure Outlook

Aggregate six-month outlook with model limits and named results withheld.

Florida restaurant outlook, next six months: 5,132 licenses in elevated/high inspection-pattern bands. The current baseline scores 105,688 licenses across four analytical bands (high=365, elevated=4,767, moderate=14,184, low=86,372). Named closure forecasts are withheld while RiskyEats completes its model card, record-completeness rules, editorial threshold, and correction workflow.

Updated 2026-11-14 21:37 UTC

By RiskyEats / FRI Editorial Desk

ORSM high-risk band 365 RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida
ORSM elevated 4,767 RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida
ORSM moderate 14,184 RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida
ORSM low 86,372 RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida
Modeled licenses ≥50% 0 RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida
NIM forecast source NV-Tesseract Forecast NIM RiskyEats calculation · current published snapshot · Florida

The six-month outlook is built on the Phase 2 ORSM baseline: 105,688 scored licenses distributed across four risk bands. 365 licenses score in the high-risk band (anomaly_score > 0.75), 4,767 in elevated (0.50–0.75), 14,184 in moderate (0.25–0.50), and 86,372 in low (< 0.25). But this edition is not a score table. The report reads the driver stack behind every named anomaly and explains why that license belongs on the desk's watch board.

The Phase 2 baseline is operator-tuned and explainable: severity_z, emergency-order counts, and ownership-change filings are not decorative fields. They are the factual spine of the editorial read — why the venue is abnormal, what kind of abnormality it is, and what the next reporting question should be.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot (Phase 2), the published RiskyEats data snapshot (Phase 3).

TSE Anomaly Overlay

The TSE overlay adds signal-level anomaly context above the ORSM license baseline. These rows are current anomaly detections, not closure findings.

TSE time-series anomaly Tex-Mex (cuisine) DBPR inspection severity-point activity per week, eligible cuisines Comparison unavailable 24 of 100 2026-10-26
TSE time-series anomaly Pembroke Pines (city) Foursquare-reported city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per week, eligible Florida cities Comparison unavailable 25 of 100 2026-10-12
TSE time-series anomaly Escambia (county) Foursquare-reported county DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per week, eligible Florida counties Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-10-12
TSE time-series anomaly Korean (cuisine) DBPR inspection severity-point activity per quarter, eligible cuisines Comparison unavailable 24 of 100 2026-10-01
TSE time-series anomaly Alachua (county) Foursquare-reported county DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per month, eligible Florida counties Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-10-01
TSE time-series anomaly Pub (cuisine) Foursquare-reported cuisine DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per week, top 30 eligible cuisines Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-09-21
TSE time-series anomaly Florida-Keys (metro) DBPR emergency-order and closure events per 100,000 residents, per metro Comparison unavailable 25 of 100 2026-08-01
TSE time-series anomaly Florida-Keys (metro) DBPR emergency-order and closure events per 10,000 accommodation and food-service jobs, per metro Comparison unavailable 24 of 100 2026-08-01
TSE time-series anomaly West Palm Beach (city) Foursquare-reported city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per month, eligible Florida cities Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-08-01
TSE time-series anomaly Statewide FB/news scraped closure mentions per week Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-07-06
TSE time-series anomaly D5 (district) Inspector activity per month, per district Comparison unavailable 27 of 100 2026-06-01
TSE time-series anomaly American (cuisine) Foursquare-reported cuisine DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate per month, top 30 eligible cuisines Comparison unavailable 23 of 100 2026-06-01

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot via tse_overlay.get_anomalies_for_signal().

TSE Forecast Overlay

The forecast overlay shows signal-level trajectories beside the ORSM outlook. Forecast rows are model projections and remain separate from public-record facts.

city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=jacksonville -0.000 0.001 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=miami +0.000 0.000 0.001
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=tampa -0.001 0.001 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=orlando +0.000 0.000 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=kissimmee -0.000 0.000 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=new port richey -0.000 0.000 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=oviedo -0.000 0.000 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=sarasota -0.000 0.000 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=doral -0.001 0.001 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=fort myers -0.000 0.001 0.001
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=opa-locka -0.001 0.001 0.000
city DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate weekly city=tallahassee -0.000 0.000 0.000

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot via tse_overlay.get_forecast_for_signal().

Scenario Rollup — Elevated/High Concentration by Metro

The metro rollup answers where regulatory pressure is concentrating. Miami carries the highest concentration of elevated/high-band licenses at 2.0%, which means the forward-look is more uncertain there than in metros with thinner high-band stacks.

This is not a closure count. It is an aggregate of per-license anomaly scores — the same scores that power the per-license table above — rolled up to metro geography. A high concentration here means the model sees more individual licenses behaving outside their own historical norm, which the editorial desk reads as a pressure signal.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot grouped by metro county definitions.

Metro-level ORSM band concentration

Miami 5785 113 2.0% 113 of 5785 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Fort Lauderdale 2632 55 2.1% 55 of 2632 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
West Palm Beach 2249 40 1.8% 40 of 2249 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Port St. Lucie 938 13 1.4% 13 of 938 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Key West 267 4 1.5% 4 of 267 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Tampa 6131 97 1.6% 97 of 6131 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Orlando 7892 135 1.7% 135 of 7892 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Jacksonville 2813 58 2.1% 58 of 2813 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Fort Myers 3777 80 2.1% 80 of 3777 scored licenses in the elevated+ band
Tallahassee 4357 93 2.1% 93 of 4357 scored licenses in the elevated+ band

Raw counts mislead -- Putnam County losing 4 places is different from Miami losing 4. Use the rate or per-capita column for defensible comparisons. Methodology details linked above.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

NIM Forecast Scenario Rollup

The NV-Tesseract Forecast NIM produced 24 metro×target forecast pairs for this semiannual edition. Each pair compares the last observed value against the forecast-horizon endpoint, labeled as a directional trend rather than a point estimate.

south-florida · severity_sum: 2152.0 → 1018.4, trend down 52.7% over the forecast horizon.

south-florida · eor_count: 3.0 → 3.6, trend up 19.5% over the forecast horizon.

south-florida · total_inspections: 219.0 → 109.9, trend down 49.8% over the forecast horizon.

tampa-bay · severity_sum: 900.0 → 349.8, trend down 61.1% over the forecast horizon.

tampa-bay · eor_count: 3.0 → 2.0, trend down 34.2% over the forecast horizon.

tampa-bay · total_inspections: 90.0 → 44.0, trend down 51.1% over the forecast horizon.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot. Model: NV-Tesseract Forecast NIM.

NIM forecast metro×target summary

south-florida severity_sum 2152.0 1018.4 down 52.7%
south-florida eor_count 3.0 3.6 up 19.5%
south-florida total_inspections 219.0 109.9 down 49.8%
tampa-bay severity_sum 900.0 349.8 down 61.1%
tampa-bay eor_count 3.0 2.0 down 34.2%
tampa-bay total_inspections 90.0 44.0 down 51.1%
orlando severity_sum 457.0 266.1 down 41.8%
orlando eor_count 1.0 0.9 down 9.6%
orlando total_inspections 45.0 27.7 down 38.4%
jacksonville severity_sum 11.0 237.4 up 2058.2%
jacksonville eor_count 0.0 1.4 new activity from a zero prior base
jacksonville total_inspections 3.0 22.1 up 636.5%
florida-keys severity_sum 87.0 55.4 down 36.3%
florida-keys eor_count 0.0 0.1 new activity from a zero prior base
florida-keys total_inspections 10.0 6.9 down 30.6%
treasure-coast severity_sum 74.0 47.3 down 36.1%
treasure-coast eor_count 0.0 0.0 new activity from a zero prior base
treasure-coast total_inspections 9.0 6.0 down 33.5%
southwest-florida severity_sum 186.0 134.0 down 27.9%
southwest-florida eor_count 2.0 0.8 down 58.4%
southwest-florida total_inspections 44.0 23.2 down 47.2%
north-florida severity_sum 69.0 61.5 down 10.9%
north-florida eor_count 0.0 0.1 new activity from a zero prior base
north-florida total_inspections 11.0 8.0 down 27.1%

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

Aggregate 90-day closure-pressure model

The model currently places 0 active licenses above the 50% analytical threshold. Top-decile precision is 28.7%. Named-business results are not published while identity, record completeness, threshold governance, evidence linking, and correction safeguards are under review.

RiskyEats model output; see Methods for sources and limitations.

High-Pressure Cities Ranking

North Miami Beach leads the city pressure ranking with 14 DBPR delinquent/inactive (status 45/46) license records against 170 active-at-start records, a 8.2% delinquency-pressure read. Delinquency is a public-record regulatory state, not by itself proof a business has closed. Named city records include BODEGA BROS in North Miami Beach, and SUBWAY 40458 in North Miami Beach.

The city ranking is a pressure atlas, not a restaurant review. It tells the desk where DBPR license-delinquency concentration is dense enough to justify assignment work before the next six-month outlook.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot, cities_ranked.

Top 20 high-pressure cities

1 North Miami Beach 170 14 8.2% 8.2% closure pressure; percentile 100.0
2 Leesburg 157 10 6.4% 6.4% closure pressure; percentile 97.4
3 Coral Springs 305 18 5.9% 5.9% closure pressure; percentile 94.9
4 Ormond Beach 221 11 5.0% 5.0% closure pressure; percentile 92.3
5 Deerfield Beach 205 10 4.9% 4.9% closure pressure; percentile 89.7
6 Hollywood 453 22 4.9% 4.9% closure pressure; percentile 87.2
7 Pembroke Pines 381 18 4.7% 4.7% closure pressure; percentile 84.6
8 Miami Beach 717 33 4.6% 4.6% closure pressure; percentile 82.1
9 Doral 284 13 4.6% 4.6% closure pressure; percentile 79.5
10 New Port Richey 234 10 4.3% 4.3% closure pressure; percentile 76.9
11 Coral Gables 262 11 4.2% 4.2% closure pressure; percentile 74.4
12 Fort Lauderdale 1105 46 4.2% 4.2% closure pressure; percentile 71.8
13 Boca Raton 722 30 4.2% 4.2% closure pressure; percentile 69.2
14 Port St. Lucie 462 19 4.1% 4.1% closure pressure; percentile 66.7
15 Winter Park 283 11 3.9% 3.9% closure pressure; percentile 64.1
16 Melbourne 490 18 3.7% 3.7% closure pressure; percentile 61.5
17 Brandon 305 11 3.6% 3.6% closure pressure; percentile 59.0
18 Stuart 301 10 3.3% 3.3% closure pressure; percentile 56.4
19 Vero Beach 333 11 3.3% 3.3% closure pressure; percentile 53.8
20 Bradenton 697 22 3.2% 3.2% closure pressure; percentile 51.3

Raw counts mislead -- Putnam County losing 4 places is different from Miami losing 4. Use the rate or per-capita column for defensible comparisons. Methodology details linked above.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

High-Attrition Neighborhoods

Doral in Doral leads the neighborhood pressure board with 11 DBPR delinquent/inactive (status 45/46) license records against 194 active records, or 5.7%. Delinquency is a regulatory state, not confirmed closure. The dominant cuisine printed for that geography is Italian & Pizza.

Neighborhoods are where the model starts to look less like a spreadsheet and more like a real-estate story.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot, neighborhoods_ranked.

Top 30 high-attrition neighborhoods

1 Doral Doral 194 11 5.7% Italian & Pizza
2 Coral Springs Coral Springs 240 12 5.0% Italian & Pizza
3 Pembroke Pines Pembroke Pines 312 14 4.5% Fast Food
4 Hollywood Hollywood 286 11 3.8% Italian & Pizza

Raw counts mislead -- Putnam County losing 4 places is different from Miami losing 4. Use the rate or per-capita column for defensible comparisons. Methodology details linked above.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

Cuisine-Level Forecast

The cuisine forecast is blunt: cuisines above the statewide median DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate of 3.1% are treated as shrink candidates unless operator churn is low enough to argue for stability. Donuts, Sandwiches, Fast Food, Ice Cream, and Desserts sit near the top of the pressure board in the current atlas.

Pizza remains structurally important even when it is not the monthly rate leader because the address-churn file keeps pulling it back into the story.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot and the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

Cuisine-level six-month forecast

Vietnamese projected shrink 10.2% 0.0% 10.2% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Korean projected shrink 8.2% 0.0% 8.2% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Indian projected shrink 7.3% 0.0% 7.3% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Caribbean projected shrink 7.0% 0.0% 7.0% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Mexican projected shrink 6.7% 1.1% 6.7% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.1% operator-churn rate
Greek projected shrink 5.8% 0.0% 5.8% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Peruvian projected shrink 5.8% 0.0% 5.8% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Japanese, Thai & Sushi projected shrink 5.7% 0.7% 5.7% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.7% operator-churn rate
Mediterranean projected shrink 5.2% 0.0% 5.2% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Bakery projected shrink 5.1% 1.1% 5.1% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.1% operator-churn rate
Asian projected shrink 4.9% 0.0% 4.9% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
French projected shrink 4.6% 0.0% 4.6% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Health Food projected shrink 4.0% 1.8% 4.0% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.8% operator-churn rate
Juice/Smoothie projected shrink 3.9% 0.0% 3.9% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.0% operator-churn rate
Italian & Pizza projected shrink 3.6% 0.5% 3.6% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.5% operator-churn rate
Latin American projected shrink 3.6% 1.5% 3.6% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.5% operator-churn rate
Cafe projected growth/stability 3.0% 0.3% 3.0% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.3% operator-churn rate
Seafood projected growth/stability 2.9% 0.8% 2.9% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 0.8% operator-churn rate
Bar projected growth/stability 2.9% 1.5% 2.9% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.5% operator-churn rate
Cuban projected growth/stability 2.9% 1.1% 2.9% DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate and 1.1% operator-churn rate

Raw counts mislead -- Putnam County losing 4 places is different from Miami losing 4. Use the rate or per-capita column for defensible comparisons. Methodology details linked above.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

The 90-Day Watch List

Watch list pending — closure predictions not yet scored.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

Six-Month Rear-View — Closed-Loop Model Validation

Of 2,075 licenses that moved to DBPR delinquent/inactive status (45 or 46) in the last six months, 0 currently score in the elevated or high ORSM band (0.0%). Delinquency is a public-record regulatory state, not by itself confirmation a business has closed. This is a rear-view validation: the same Phase 2 scoring that produces the forward-look above catches a material fraction of these delinquency events in its elevated+ bands. A higher catch rate means the model is surfacing real pre-delinquency signal; a lower rate tells the desk that delinquencies are dominantly structural (retirement, lease expiry, franchisor decisions) rather than inspection-pressure events — useful context for interpreting the forward-look.

No rear-view delinquency matches found — either no licenses went delinquent in the window or the model does not yet score delinquent licenses.

Source dataset: the published RiskyEats data snapshot joined to the published RiskyEats data snapshot delinquent-status (45/46) records.

Editorial Verdict — Where to Look First

Most pressured metros: Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Fort Myers lead the elevated/high-concentration board. The editorial desk should assign coverage resources to these geographies first — they carry the densest stacks of individual licenses behaving outside their own historical norms, which is the Phase 2 definition of elevated regulatory pressure.

Most pressured cuisine cohorts: Vietnamese, Korean, Indian top the DBPR inactive/delinquent-license rate board. These are the cohorts where the forward-look is least certain — when a cuisine is already losing units at an above-median rate, the Phase 2 per-license signals in that cuisine carry higher editorial weight because the structural backdrop supports the per-license read.

Highest-pressure cities: North Miami Beach, Leesburg, Coral Springs lead the statewide city ranking. The city pressure is a complement to the metro-level ORSM rollup — a city with high closure pressure AND a high ORSM elevated-band concentration is the strongest editorial signal in this brief.

Highest-attrition neighborhood: Doral in Doral with 11 DBPR delinquent/inactive (status 45/46) license records against 194 active records (0.0%). Neighborhoods are where the model starts to look less like a spreadsheet and more like a real-estate story — the editorial desk should cross-reference the per-license table above against neighborhood-level delinquency to identify corridor-level patterns.

Source datasets: the published RiskyEats data snapshot, the published RiskyEats data snapshot, the published RiskyEats data snapshot.

Methodology

Methodology: ORSM Phase 2 baseline produces per-license anomaly scores from operator-tuned weighted-max subscores (severity spike, cohort deviation, EOR history, ownership churn, license-expiry pressure, administrative distress, external closure signals). Bands: high (>0.75), elevated (0.50-0.75), moderate (0.25-0.50), low (<0.25). Scenario rollups aggregate band concentrations by metro county definitions. NIM forecast layer (NV-Tesseract) provides metro-level severity/EOR/inspection-volume projections when the forecast parquet is present. Closure predictions are Phase 3 logistic regression outputs, included here as complementary forward-look. All drivers are printed in plain English so the editorial desk can audit every call.

Data sources: Statistical risk modeling · ORSM Phase 2. Built from DBPR public inspection records, Florida Sunbiz business filings, and Foursquare/OSS location data. All counts are derived from public records — no estimates or projections unless labeled as forecast.

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