inspections
Inspection Radar: real-time DOH alerts for your block
Health department inspectors don't show up alone. In 90 days of NYC DOH data, 93% of inspections happened in clusters — when one restaurant on a block gets hit, neighbors usually follow within a week. Inspection Radar is the Pro feature that pushes you the moment one of those nearby inspections lands. Save your restaurant's address, set a radius from 1 to 10 blocks, and get a heads-up to walk through your line.
Why inspectors come in waves
Municipal health inspectors are assigned to geographic zones, and they batch their visits to minimize travel time. The pattern shows up clearly in the public DOH data: 47% of follow-up inspections in a neighborhood happen the same day as the first, and 89% land within 7 days. That isn't proof that you're next — it's a statistical signal that the regulatory pressure in your area is elevated. Operators have always sensed this. Now you can act on it instead of finding out at the door.
How Inspection Radar works
When you create your Pro account, head to /settings/locations and save your restaurant address. The address is geocoded once and stored privately — never shared with other users, never used for advertising. As new inspection articles flow through our ingest pipeline from NYC DOHMH, Chicago Public Health, SF, and Boston, each one is geocoded and matched against your saved location. If an inspected restaurant lands inside your saved radius, you get a web push and an iOS push within minutes of the article publishing. Same alert won't fire twice for the same article.
What this is and isn't
Inspection Radar is a signal, not a prediction. We don't have access to inspector schedules or routes. We don't know whether the inspector who hit your neighbor is heading to you specifically. We can't tell you when DOH will arrive. What we can do is route a real-time feed of public health-department inspection data, filtered to your block, to your phone. You decide what to do with the heads-up — walk the line, check temps, brief staff, log a deep clean. Public data is typically posted 24-72 hours after the inspection, so the radar describes a recent inspection, not an inspector currently in transit. Use it as one input among many for the same reason you wouldn't run your kitchen by gut feel alone.
Save your restaurant address
Real-time food safety alerts from 25+ government sources. AI-scored by urgency. Less than one bad meal a month — $4.99/mo.
Start free trial → alerts.getpanko.app