RestoSignals MCP — restaurants and bars before they open

Remote MCP server, REST API and agent skill for pre-opening restaurant leads in the US. RestoSignals fuses public liquor-license applications, food-service permits and new-business filings into one deduped venue, scores how close it is to opening (opening_score 0–100), and attaches the owner contact found in those filings.

Built for anyone who sells to new restaurants — POS and merchant-services resellers, beverage distributors, insurers, equipment suppliers — and for agents that prospect on their behalf.

• MCP endpoint: https://api.restosignals.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)

• Auth: API key in X-API-Key (or Authorization: Bearer pk_...)

• Free key: https://restosignals.com/signup (100 lead credits, no card)

• Docs: https://restosignals.com/restoapi · OpenAPI: https://api.restosignals.com/openapi.json

• Website: https://restosignals.com

Quick start

Add the server to Claude Desktop / Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "restosignals": {
      "url": "https://api.restosignals.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "pk_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code one-liner:

claude mcp add --transport http restosignals https://api.restosignals.com/mcp --header "X-API-Key: pk_YOUR_KEY"

Then ask: "Which restaurants are about to open in New York? Strongest leads first."

Related MCP server: canido

Tools

Coverage

Live with hot leads: NY, TX, IL, CA, OR. CO and WA have venues but are still thin. Refreshed daily. Always call coverage for the current list; nothing outside it is claimed.

Contact depth (subscribers): owner name from the filing everywhere, owner mailing address in TX and NY, phone in NYC. Free keys see that a contact exists, not the contact itself.

Install as an agent skill / Claude Code plugin

This repo is also a Claude Code plugin marketplace with the restosignals skill:

/plugin marketplace add paperandbeyond23-gif/restosignals-mcp
/plugin install restosignals@restosignals

Or copy skills/restosignals/SKILL.md into your agent's skills folder.

REST

curl -s "https://api.restosignals.com/v1/openings?state=NY&min_opening_score=40&limit=5" \
  -H "X-API-Key: pk_YOUR_KEY"

Endpoints: /v1/openings, /v1/openings/latest, /v1/signals, /v1/export (CSV), /v1/webhooks, /v1/account. Full spec in the OpenAPI file.

Notes

Data comes from public government open-data. RestoSignals is not affiliated with any government agency. This repo holds the client config, skill and docs; the server is hosted.

License: MIT (this repo's contents).