Sightings
Virtual Restaurants & Ghost Kitchens
Your ghost kitchen brand runs from an inspected commissary â do you know its record?
Health departments inspect shared commissary kitchens on the same schedule as restaurants. We track them so you can vet vendors, monitor ongoing compliance, and get warned before a closure disrupts your operations.
Ghost kitchen operators and virtual restaurant brands share compliance risk with the commissary kitchens they run from. When a commissary fails a health inspection â or gets closed â every brand running out of it is exposed. That data is public record, updated every time an inspector walks through the door. We aggregate it across all the jurisdictions where you operate and surface it as actionable intelligence for your ops team.
The problem today
Sound familiar?
You don't control the kitchen, but you're liable for what comes out of it
Virtual brands share a compliance surface with commissary operators. A failed inspection at your shared kitchen can halt operations, trigger customer complaints, and damage your brand â even if your team did nothing wrong.
Commissary inspection records are buried in city health databases you've never checked
Health departments inspect commissary and shared kitchens the same way they inspect restaurants â but nobody pulls those records for ghost kitchen brands. You're flying blind on the compliance history of your own production facilities.
A surprise closure means scrambling for a new kitchen in 24 hours
Commissaries with repeated violations are far more likely to face emergency closure orders. Knowing a kitchen's inspection history before signing an operator agreement â and getting alerted on new violations in real time â means you can plan instead of react.
Commissary compliance monitoring for ghost kitchen operators
We pull health inspection records from city and county databases across every jurisdiction where you operate. Filter to your commissary kitchens, surface violations and closure events, and deliver weekly reports your ops team can actually act on.
Pricing
Transparent pricing. No hidden fees. Cancel anytime.
Vendor Vetting
Full inspection history before you sign
- âComplete health inspection history for up to 3 commissary kitchens
- âClosure events and critical violations flagged
- âInspector notes where available
- âDelivered as PDF or CSV within 24 hours
- âCovers all jurisdictions for each kitchen
Portfolio Monitor
Ongoing compliance tracking for your kitchen network
- âMonitor up to 10 commissary kitchens across any markets
- âNew violation alerts within 48 hours
- âClosure event early warning
- â311 pest complaint cross-reference
- âMonthly compliance summary report
- âCancel anytime
Multi-Market Ops
Unlimited kitchens, real-time alerts, full data access
- âUnlimited commissary kitchens across all US cities we cover
- âReal-time webhook alerts (Slack, PagerDuty, or custom endpoint)
- âWeekly ops report with portfolio-wide risk summary
- âAPI access: pull inspection data directly into your ops stack
- âDedicated onboarding and custom jurisdiction requests
âWe used to assume the commissaries we worked with were clean. After pulling their inspection histories, we declined two kitchen partnerships that had back-to-back closure events in the prior year. That data should be table stakes for any ghost kitchen operator.â
Send us your commissary list â we'll pull their full inspection history
Share up to 5 commissary kitchen names and cities and we'll return a free compliance snapshot: most recent inspection, any critical violations, and closure history. Takes about 24 hours.