New restaurants, cafés and takeaways opening near you
How can a food-service supplier find new restaurants and cafés before they open? When a café, restaurant or takeaway is set up it registers with the council's food-safety team, and that registration is public. Salenovo matches those registrations to newly incorporated companies, so you see new food premises — with the trading address, not the accountant's — the week they appear. Over the last 8 weeks that was 308 across the UK, 1 in Chelmsford.
What you get
The trading address
Food premises registrations carry the address of the kitchen or shop. That is where the delivery goes, and it is usually not the registered office.
Before the first order
A premises awaiting its first inspection has not yet chosen its wholesaler, its card terminal, its laundry or its waste contractor. The window is weeks, and you see it open.
What kind of place
Restaurant, takeaway, mobile caterer, pub, hotel, retailer — the council's business type comes with the match, and the company's own website says the rest.
Every council in the UK
The match runs against all 363 local authority registers, refreshed weekly.
What one kitchen is worth
A café or restaurant spends £2,000–£5,000 a month with its main wholesaler, and the first supplier through the door usually keeps the account. One new kitchen a year pays for the regional list several times over.
A worked example: Chelmsford
Chelmsford, the last 8 weeks: 1 new companies matched to a registered food premises, out of 251 incorporated. See the Chelmsford page, see a real week's list, or compare any area.
Against what you do today
| Raw register dump | Companies House by hand | Salenovo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What arrives | Companies with a hospitality SIC code — many never open | Walk the high street; watch for planning notices | Companies matched to a real registered premises, with the address and business type |
| Address | Registered office | What you can see | The premises |
| When you hear | At incorporation, with no idea if it will open | When the sign goes up | When the premises registers with the council — usually before opening |
Business-to-business email to a limited company or LLP is permitted under PECR without prior consent, provided you say who you are and offer an opt-out. Every row says where the address came from. No director names, no home addresses.
Your first week
- Monday: the digest arrives for every council in your region, with new registered food premises marked and the trading address shown.
- Take the premises rows first — 'awaiting inspection' means brand new — then the hospitality-sector A and B rows without premises yet.
- Look at the business type from the council register (café, takeaway, restaurant, mobile caterer) and pick the offer to match.
- Write to the premises, not the registered office: an opening-week order at trade price with no minimum, and a rep's mobile number.
- Log replies; companies without premises this week are re-checked and come back to you when the registration appears.
Two short messages that work — an email and a letter, with the one line that matters for your trade — are on the templates page.
Questions
How do you know a new company has opened food premises?
Every food business must register with its local authority before trading, and the Food Standards Agency publishes those registrations with the business name, address, type and inspection status. We match them to newly incorporated companies by name and postcode and show the match with its source date.
Is the hygiene rating shown?
Where the premises has been rated, the rating and its date are shown with the date of the FSA extract, as the FSA's terms require. Many new premises show as 'awaiting inspection', which is itself the useful signal: brand new.
Which suppliers use this?
Wholesalers and cash-and-carry, EPOS and card-terminal providers, linen and laundry, waste and grease management, drinks, coffee, recruitment, pest control and cleaning — anyone whose customer is a new kitchen.
Method and accuracy — how the numbers are made: incorporations from the Companies House public register, mapped to councils with the ONS Postcode Directory; "expected to trade" from the historical outcomes of 447,000 companies formed in 2022 and 2024, by formation address and sector; websites verified by fetching the company's name-matching domain and checking it against the company; food premises from the Food Standards Agency's register. All Open Government Licence. Every row in the paid list carries its source and date.
Other uses: Accountants & bookkeepers · Insurance brokers · Web, design & marketing agencies · Lenders, brokers & fintech · Commercial property & serviced offices · B2B suppliers: telecoms, payroll, EPOS, merchant services · Councils, LEPs & business improvement districts · Business owners