What happened to Florida restaurant storefronts over time.
- Corroborated concept-failure candidates 9
- Silent-turnover candidates 299
- Concept-replacement candidates 2,740
- Premises-history candidates 1,667
Storefront Lifecycle keeps concept disappearance, silent ownership turnover, concept replacement, and recurring inspection burden as four independent signals. They may overlap, but they are never merged into one failure score.
License delinquency and ownership changes are separate signals. Neither alone proves that a restaurant has closed.
A street address is not automatically one storefront. Suite, unit, concourse, stand, terminal, and complex identity must resolve before a named lifecycle finding can publish. Artifact method: fri-lifecycle-v1; data through 2026-11-13.
Four independent storefront signals
Concept failure
9 candidates connect a concept and unit to the separate corroborated permanent-closure ledger. DBPR status 45/46 alone remains insufficient.
RiskyEats calculationSilent ownership turnover
299 candidates preserve the address unit and normalized concept while the legal operator changes. This does not establish that the prior business failed financially.
RiskyEats calculationStorefront supertransition
2,740 candidates contain materially different normalized concepts at the same unit. Unknown and multi-tenant venue formats remain outside ordinary-storefront rankings.
RiskyEats calculation · review queuedPersistent premises pressure
1,667 candidates now require multiple unrelated operators, normalize high-priority citations per routine inspection, and compare cuisine, venue type, metro, and inspection district. They remain withheld until venue confidence and editorial review clear.
Data sources: Official records · RiskyEats calculations. 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.