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Boca Raton, Palm Beach County: licensed businesses
Active food service, lodging and alcoholic beverage licenses placed in Boca Raton from DBPR's license files, by type, with new licenses by month.
Active licenses as of DBPR's extracts of Sep 28, 2026 (food service), Sep 28, 2026 (lodging) and Oct 1, 2026 (alcoholic beverages). New lodging licenses exclude vacation rentals, which have their own count.
New licenses
New licenses by monthBoca Raton12 months to Aug 2026: Food service 37; Lodging, except vacation rentals n/a; Vacation rentals n/a; Alcoholic beverages 32
New food service and lodging licenses by the month DBPR approved them, from the new establishment files, initial licenses only. Alcoholic beverage licenses by the month first issued, licenses still active only, so earlier years understate openings. A month inside a published file with no new license is zero; a month no file covers is left blank. Closures recorded since the first extract: Food service 0, Lodging, except vacation rentals 0, Vacation rentals 0, Alcoholic beverages 0.
New licenses by month, last 12 months
| Month | Food service | Lodging, except vacation rentals | Vacation rentals | Alcoholic beverages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 5 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Oct 2025 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Nov 2025 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| Dec 2025 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 3 |
| Jan 2026 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 6 |
| Feb 2026 | 1 | n/a | n/a | 4 |
| Mar 2026 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| Apr 2026 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 4 |
| May 2026 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 4 |
| Jun 2026 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| Jul 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Aug 2026 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 months | 37 | n/a | n/a | 32 |
n/a: no published file covers the month. See the explained gaps on the sources page.
Active licenses by type
| License type | Division | Code | Active | DBPR summary | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food service, non-seating | Food service | 2010-NOST | 48 | ||
| Food service, seating | Food service | 2010-SEAT | 401 | ||
| Catering | Food service | 2013-CATR | 15 | ||
| Hot dog cart | Food service | 2014-HTDG | 3 | ||
| Mobile food dispensing vehicle | Food service | 2014-MFDV | 21 | ||
| Vending machine | Food service | 2015-VEND | 2 | ||
| Hotel | Lodging | 2001-HOTL | 17 | ||
| Motel | Lodging | 2002-MOTL | 5 | ||
| Nontransient apartment | Lodging | 2003-NAPT | 103 | ||
| Transient apartment | Lodging | 2003-TAPT | 2 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, collective | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-CLCT | 1 | ||
| Vacation rental condominium, single | Lodging | 2006-CNDO-SNGL | 2 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, collective | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-CLCT | 4 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, group | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-GRP | 1 | ||
| Vacation rental dwelling, single | Lodging | 2007-DWEL-SNGL | 16 | ||
| Club | Alcoholic beverages | 11C | 9 | ||
| Club, golf | Alcoholic beverages | 11CG | 4 | ||
| Club | Alcoholic beverages | 11PA | 2 | ||
| Caterer | Alcoholic beverages | 13CT | 10 | ||
| Beer, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 1APS | 1 | ||
| Beer and wine, package sales | Alcoholic beverages | 2APS | 71 | ||
| Beer and wine, consumption on premises | Alcoholic beverages | 2COP | 100 | ||
| Liquor package store (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 3PS | 13 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP | 26 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special hotel or motel | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-S | 10 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SBX | 2 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SCX | 1 | ||
| Liquor, consumption on premises (quota), special food service (restaurant) | Alcoholic beverages | 4COP-SFS | 107 | ||
| Series RTS | Alcoholic beverages | RTS | 1 |
Temporary event food vendors are in DBPR's file but not its summary, and are not counted. An alcohol license is active at primary status 20, Current; DBPR publishes no current alcohol summary to compare with.
Hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts and transient apartments
Every active license of these types here, with the rental units DBPR records. Apartments, rooming houses and vacation rentals are counted above and listed in the county CSV.
| Name | Type | Address | Units | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOCA RATON | Hotel | 501 E CAMINO REAL, BOCA RATON 33432 | 629 | HOT6000926 |
| EMBASSY SUITES BOCA RATON | Hotel | 661 NW 53 ST, BOCA RATON 33487 | 263 | HOT6006819 |
| BOCA RATON MARRIOTT HOTEL | Hotel | 5150 TOWN CENTER CIR, BOCA RATON 33486 | 259 | HOT6007452 |
| BOCA BEACH CLUB | Hotel | 900 S OCEAN BLVD, BOCA RATON 33432 | 212 | HOT6005579 |
| HYATT PLACE BOCA RATON | Hotel | 100 E PALMETTO PARK RD, BOCA RATON 33432 | 200 | HOT6014067 |
| RENAISSANCE BOCA RATON HOTEL | Hotel | 2000 NW 19 ST, BOCA RATON 33431 | 189 | HOT6005847 |
| WYNDHAM GARDEN HOTEL - BOCA RATON | Motel | 1950 GLADES RD, BOCA RATON 33431 | 184 | MOT6005868 |
| HOLIDAY INN - BOCA RATON NORTH | Hotel | 701 NW 53 ST, BOCA RATON 33487 | 183 | HOT6008412 |
| SONESTA SELECT BOCA RATON | Hotel | 2000 NW EXEC CENTER CIR, BOCA RATON 33431 | 152 | HOT6010102 |
| APPLE TEN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT INC | Hotel | 8201 CONGRESS AVE, BOCA RATON 33487 | 149 | HOT6013438 |
| SPRINGHILL SUITES | Hotel | 5130 NW 8 AVE, BOCA RATON 33487 | 146 | HOT6012372 |
| WATERSTONE RESORT AND MARINA BOCA RATON | Hotel | 999 E CAMINO REAL, BOCA RATON 33432 | 139 | HOT6004633 |
| BOCA BREAKWATER | Hotel | 525 NW 77 ST, BOCA RATON 33487 | 120 | HOT6007726 |
| GOLF CLUB VILLAS | Transient apartment | 501 E CAMINO REAL, BOCA RATON 33432 | 120 | TAP6001054 |
| FAIRFIELD INN AND SUITES | Hotel | 3400 AIRPORT RD, BOCA RATON 33431 | 119 | HOT6012987 |
| EXTENDED STAY AMERICA SUITES #9637 | Motel | 501 NW 77 ST, BOCA RATON 33487 | 115 | MOT6012191 |
| YACHT CLUB AT THE BOCA RATON | Hotel | 501 E CAMINO REAL, BOCA RATON 33432 | 112 | HOT6013464 |
| BOCA PLAZA HOTEL | Hotel | 2901 N FEDERAL HWY, BOCA RATON 33431 | 100 | HOT6013861 |
| HAMPTON INN- BOCA RATON | Hotel | 1455 YAMATO ROAD, BOCA RATON 33431 | 94 | HOT6011587 |
| TOWNEPLACE SUITES | Hotel | 5110 NW 8 AVE, BOCA RATON 33487 | 92 | HOT6012369 |
| BOCA INN | Motel | 1801 N FEDERAL HWY, BOCA RATON 33432 | 50 | MOT6003403 |
| BOCA BY THE SEA HOTEL | Motel | 2899 N FEDERAL HWY, BOCA RATON 33431 | 48 | MOT6000087 |
| BOCA CASA | Transient apartment | 365 N OCEAN BLVD, BOCA RATON 33432 | 19 | TAP6014510 |
| OCEAN LODGE | Motel | 531 N OCEAN BLVD, BOCA RATON 33432 | 18 | MOT6013911 |
Of 998 active licenses here, 887 are placed in a city by their geocoded location (751 matched exactly by the Census geocoder) and 111 by the city name as filed, where the address could not be placed. Unincorporated means outside every Census incorporated place in the county.
Sources on this page
- Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: public food service license files, public lodging license files (Division of Hotels and Restaurants, one file per district, refreshed weekly) and the retail alcoholic beverage license file (Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco). Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- Validated against DBPR's own summaries on every build: the statewide license summary (HR400A, dated Oct 1, 2026) and the county license and unit summary (HR400C, dated Oct 1, 2026), by license type, within 1.5% or 15 licenses for the days between the weekly extract and the monthly summary. The retail alcohol file is compared with DBPR's all licensees file, series by series and county by county, exactly. The last alcohol count DBPR posted by county is dated July 1, 2021 and is carried in the published counts download.
- Locations. Every license address was geocoded with the US Census Bureau batch geocoder (current benchmark) and placed in a Census incorporated place (TIGERweb, retrieved 2026-10-01) by point in polygon. DBPR publishes no GIS layer of its licenses.
- Sources and methods.
Download the data
Palm Beach County licenses CSV Every license, statewide (CSV, gzip) New licenses CSV (gzip) DBPR published counts CSV
One row per license with its type, status, address, county, geocoded coordinates, the city it was placed in and how. The new licenses file has every approval with its month; the published counts file has every figure from DBPR's summaries since 2017.