About Preopening Restaurants Resource

Restaurant Intelligence Built Around One Simple Advantage: Earlier Access

Preopening Restaurants Resource helps companies that sell to restaurants identify new opportunities before opening day, understand the people and businesses behind them, and begin outreach while important supplier decisions are still taking shape.

Our Mission

Help Sales Teams Get There Before the Competition

We turn early restaurant development signals into verified, actionable intelligence that helps vendors reach owners, operators and other decision-makers at the point when timing can make the biggest difference.

Find restaurant opportunities earlier.
Verify the project and the people behind it.
Give sales teams enough context to act intelligently.
Our Story

Built for the Moment Before a Restaurant Opens

PRR launched in 2019 through a strategic partnership with Restaurant Activity Report, bringing established restaurant-industry research capabilities into a focused resource for suppliers that need to identify opportunities earlier in the development cycle.

2019
Preopening Restaurants Resource launchesA dedicated platform is created to help restaurant suppliers find verified opportunities before opening day.
Today
Preopening intelligence plus broader prospectingSubscribers can use time-sensitive opening intelligence alongside a continuously maintained restaurant database.
Next
Part of a larger demand-generation ecosystemPRR can work alongside Starfleet Media capabilities that extend restaurant intelligence into visibility, thought leadership and qualified demand.
Preopening Restaurants Resource U.S. trade area coverage
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What Makes PRR Different

Research First. Actionable Intelligence Second.

PRR is not simply a list of restaurant names scraped from public announcements. A dedicated research team spends hundreds of hours each month identifying, validating and enriching restaurant activity before it becomes conventional sales intelligence.

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Earlier signalsResearch can begin with permits, licenses, real estate, construction activity, developer announcements, trade publications and other industry sources.
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Individual verificationOpportunities are researched to confirm the restaurant, location, ownership and project status.
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Decision-maker intelligenceAvailable names, titles, emails, phone numbers and related business information help sales teams identify whom to contact.
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Original research contextLead summaries explain the opportunity, timing and relevant background so outreach can begin with more than a name and address.
Scale and Coverage

Restaurant Intelligence for Focused Territories or National Prospecting

PRR combines regional preopening intelligence with access to a much broader restaurant prospecting universe. That makes the platform useful both for time-sensitive opportunities and ongoing account development.

85National and regional trade-area options
350,000Restaurant records
150,000+Verified decision-maker contacts
20,000+Restaurant records reviewed and updated daily
Who Uses PRR

Built for Companies Whose Opportunities Begin When Restaurants Do

If a restaurant opening, relocation, expansion or ownership change creates a sales opportunity for your business, earlier intelligence can give your team more time to build the relationship.

Restaurant Technology & POS
Food & Beverage Distribution
Kitchen Equipment
Furniture & Fixtures
Design & Construction
Staffing & Recruiting
Telecommunications
Financial & Insurance Services
Marketing & Professional Services
Jeff Zabin at the National Restaurant Association
Leadership
Jeff Zabin
CEO, Starfleet Media
Research Director, Starfleet Research
Managing Editor, Restaurant Technology News

PRR benefits from leadership that sits directly at the intersection of restaurant technology research, industry publishing, content marketing and demand generation. That perspective helps keep the resource grounded in how restaurant solution providers actually identify opportunities, build authority and reach decision-makers.

Jeff Zabin leads Starfleet Media and Starfleet Research and serves as Managing Editor of Restaurant Technology News.
A Division of Starfleet Media

Backed by a Leader in Hospitality Content Marketing and Lead Generation

Since 2013, hundreds of technology companies have chosen Starfleet Media to build market authority, reach hard-to-find buyers and generate measurable business results. Its deepest reach is in hotel and restaurant technology, where Starfleet combines original market research, research-based content, specialized industry media, proprietary audience intelligence and sophisticated lead-generation programs.

PRR is part of that broader ecosystem. The same restaurant-market knowledge, relationships and data-driven approach that support PRR also power thought-leadership programs, industry publishing and targeted demand generation for leading restaurant technology solution providers.

Hospitality Market Depth Deep specialization in hotel and restaurant technology buyers, vendors, operators and decision-makers.
Research-Based Content Smart Decision Guides, co-branded eBooks, benchmark research and custom thought-leadership programs.
Qualified Lead Generation Proprietary audience data, personalized outreach, multichannel activation and AI-powered campaign orchestration.
Industry Media Reach Restaurant Technology News and Hotel Technology News provide focused access to hospitality technology audiences.

Experience Across the Restaurant Technology Ecosystem

A representative sample of technology companies that have worked with Starfleet Media and Starfleet Research on research, content, media and demand-generation initiatives.

Proof in the Work

Research and Content Built for the Restaurant Technology Market

Starfleet Research and Starfleet Media have produced restaurant-focused Smart Decision Guides, co-branded eBooks and original research assets that help solution providers establish thought leadership, educate buyers and support qualified lead generation. A few examples are shown below.

The Starfleet Media Ecosystem

Research, Content, Industry Media and Lead Generation Under One Roof

PRR customers that need more than restaurant prospect intelligence can also draw on complementary Starfleet capabilities for thought leadership, brand visibility, content publishing and distribution, advertising, targeted outreach and qualified lead generation.

Starfleet Media

Research-based content, specialized industry media, proprietary audience intelligence and integrated demand-generation programs that help technology solution providers build authority, reach hard-to-find buyers and generate qualified demand.

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Starfleet Research

Independent IT market research, best-practices benchmarking and research-based thought leadership that gives technology solution providers credible third-party authority while helping buyers make more informed decisions.

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Starfleet Velocity

A next-generation lead-generation platform combining proprietary audience data, research-based content, AI-powered prospect intelligence, personalized outreach and multichannel campaign orchestration to identify, engage and convert qualified prospects.

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Restaurant Technology News

An industry-leading publication focused on restaurant technology decision-makers, offering digital advertising, press releases, contributed content publishing and distribution, sponsored viewpoints, Vendor Spotlights, newsletter exposure, targeted email and other promotional opportunities.

Explore RTN Opportunities →
How We Work

Three Principles Behind the Resource

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Timing Matters

The best lead is not simply accurate. It reaches your sales team early enough to influence the opportunity.

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Context Matters

Restaurant characteristics, decision-makers, timing and research notes make a lead more useful than a bare company record.

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Usability Matters

Search, filtering and export capabilities help teams move intelligence into real sales, territory and CRM workflows.

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