How it works · Restaurants

From the name on the awning to answers

DailyDog turns your establishment's scattered city record — the inspection file and the hearings docket — into one clear read.

1. 01

   We find your establishment the way the city files it

   Every permitted food-service establishment carries a city id (the CAMIS on your permit), and the health record ties it to your building's tax lot. Search by name or street — findings attach to YOUR kitchen, not the lookalike two blocks over or the tenant who had the space before you.

   name or street → CAMIS 40732665 → the right kitchen

2. 02

   We sweep both ledgers at once

   A restaurant lives on two city ledgers: the Health Department's inspection file (every visit, every citation, every grade back to the beginning) and the OATH hearings docket (summonses, penalties, hearing results, defaults). They don't share status language or identifiers — we sweep both in one pass and re-index daily.

   inspection file + OATH docket · one pass · seconds

3. 03

   Risk rules turn records into answers

   Raw records mislead: a citation from 2019 isn't a problem, but a critical item still open from the LAST visit re-scores first at the next unannounced one. Our rules read the score bands, spot the defaults quietly collecting interest, separate settled money from money still due, and score what actually threatens the grade and the license.

   risk = open criticals + defaults + penalties due + the next window

4. 04

   Unlock the full report when you need the specifics

   The lookup and risk profile are free. When you need the summons numbers, hearing dates, exact penalties, and the cure playbook for every item — everything you'd hand your attorney — unlock the report with a restaurant credit. The membership includes one every month (they roll over); unlocked reports are yours for good. First month free on Basic right now — applied automatically at checkout.

   risk profile: free · full detail: 1 credit

5. 05

   The dog keeps watch — on all the clocks

   Watched locations are re-checked daily: new summonses and citations get named the morning they appear, and the compliance clocks run alongside — the next cycle-inspection window from your score band, the permit, the liquor-license and DCWP renewals, the sales-tax quarterlies. You hear about things while they're still cheap.

   daily re-sync → “new summons, hearing in 34 days”

6. 06

   Then the filing desk does the paperwork

   Every exit from an OATH summons runs through a form, and members never start from a blank one. Reopen the hearing you missed (automatic within 75 days), reschedule the one you can't make, appeal the decision you lost, authorize someone to appear for you — plain questions, prefilled from your summons, out comes the official PDF plus every field staged for the city's own online filing.

   plain questions → official PDF, filled → staged for the city's e-filing