Sumter County SRX Licenses

SRX activity in Sumter County

New Venue Data currently tracks 66 SRX (Special Restaurant / Food Service License) records in Sumter County — about 21% of the 320 liquor and food-service licenses we hold for the county — concentrated in The Villages, the Bushnell area, and Wildwood and Bushnell. Each one marks a Liquor business taking a concrete, documented step toward opening.

An SRX/SFS filing is one of the highest-intent signals in the dataset: a real, food-first restaurant with a full bar is being built. The 51%-food and 120-seat thresholds (lowered by SB 1262 in 2023, making SFS more accessible than SRX was) mean these are substantial, capital-intensive venues — prime net-new accounts for spirits, wine, and beer distributors, POS and reservation platforms, FF&E suppliers, and commercial insurance, all selected during the buildout window before opening day.

For sales teams working Sumter County, the SRX feed is a precision filter: instead of every business in The Villages, Wildwood, Bushnell, Oxford, Lake Panasoffkee, Lady Lake, you see only the liquor prospects that fit your book. New Venue Data surfaces each SRX filing the day it lands at the Florida DBPR — weeks before a The Villagesoperator appears on a review site or a competitor's list — so your reps can reach the owner while the buildout budget is still open.

Filter the Sumter SRX stream by city and event type — new filings, renewals, and ownership transfers — route The Villages leads to one rep and the rest of the Central territory to another, push everything into your CRM through the API, or get a daily digest of every fresh SRX across The Villages, Wildwood, Bushnell, Oxford, Lake Panasoffkee, Lady Lake.