Here First Media, the restaurant-opening radar

Field notes

Here First Media describes a monitoring workflow built from Texas state licensing records: daily updates are distilled into a weekly list of venue openings, operator changes, license-tier changes, and closures. The stated customer is not a restaurant owner but a vendor selling into restaurants and bars, including insurers, distributors, linen companies, and equipment suppliers. Coverage is currently limited to the Austin metro, with San Antonio and Houston identified as future additions. Distribution is intentionally exclusive to one vendor per category in each metro.