About Panko Alerts

What is Panko Alerts?

The shortest answer: Citizen, but for restaurants.Real-time pushes about what's happening to the food you eat and the kitchens that serve it — sourced from public health-department, FDA, USDA, and CDC feeds, filtered to your block.

Panko Alerts aggregates compliance and food-safety news from city, state, and federal sources, then delivers it in a format that's actually useful. Diners get free real-time alerts about FDA recalls and DOH inspections. Pro subscribers — primarily restaurant operators — get the operator layer on top: labor law changes, NLRB filings, wage/hour rule updates, license-renewal alerts, and our flagship feature Inspection Radar, which pushes when a health inspection lands near a restaurant address they've saved.

Health department rule changes, labor law updates, food safety alerts, licensing deadlines — the information that matters most is often the hardest to find. Panko Alerts fixes that.

How it works

Panko Alerts monitors public regulatory sources, government agencies, and industry publications across the country. We use AI to summarize and categorize what we find, then deliver relevant updates based on your location and the topics you care about.

You tell us your city and state. We filter city inspections to your location, surface state-level regulatory changes, and score national alerts for relevance to your operations.

Who it's for

Two audiences, one product.Diners use Panko Alerts the way New Yorkers use Citizen — open the app, see what's happening with the restaurants and food brands near them, get pushed when something matters (a recall, a low inspection score, an outbreak). For diners, the product is free; no account required to browse.

Restaurant owners, operators, and managers use the Pro tier ($99/mo) for the regulatory side of their business — compliance updates, labor law changes, license deadlines, and Inspection Radar alerts when DOH inspectors hit nearby blocks. Whether you run a single location or manage multiple sites, Pro keeps you informed so you can focus on running the kitchen, not reading government websites.

Panko

Panko Alerts is a product of Panko, a restaurant operations platform. Panko builds tools that help restaurants run smarter — from AI-powered operations management to compliance monitoring. Panko Alerts is our first standalone product, focused entirely on keeping operators informed.

Editorial Standards

Panko Alerts is committed to accuracy, transparency, and timeliness in the information we deliver. This section outlines how we source, process, and present data.

Data Sources

We pull from 25+ verified government and public sources. Free tier includes FDA, USDA FSIS, CDC, CDC FoodNet, CPSC, EPA, and the city health departments of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston. Pro tier adds DOL, NLRB, EEOC, BLS, and SBA for labor law, wage/hour, union activity, and industry intelligence. Every source is an official government agency or public regulatory body.

Accuracy

All inspection data, recalls, and enforcement actions are sourced directly from official government databases. We do not editorialize or alter government data. When we present a recall, inspection result, or enforcement action, the underlying data comes verbatim from the issuing agency.

AI Usage

We use AI to score article relevance and generate plain-English summaries of government publications. AI does not create or fabricate content — it summarizes and categorizes verified government data. Every AI-generated summary links back to the original source so readers can verify the information themselves.

Timeliness

Our sources are checked every 4–6 hours. Urgent recalls and outbreak alerts trigger immediate push notifications to subscribers so critical safety information is never delayed.

Corrections

If you find an error in any content on Panko Alerts, please contact us at hello@getpanko.app. We correct errors promptly and transparently.

Privacy

We do not name specific restaurants in public marketing materials. Restaurant-specific data such as inspections and violations is available only within the app to authenticated, subscribed users.

Contact

Questions or feedback? Reach us at hello@getpanko.app