tx-eats

Three things built from one pipeline (modeled on ../co-eats/ and ../fl-eats/, which are never modified):

1. The web leaderboard: every Texas restaurant on several boards, published as a private claude.ai Artifact from site/ (generated by scripts/make-leaderboard.py). It uses the UCSD Google Local 2021 snapshot for ratings, labeled "2021" everywhere, so site/ never goes in a public repo.
2. Texas Eats, a free iPhone and iPad app (TexasEats/, XcodeGen project.yml). No Google-derived data: places come from TABC licenses, three cities' inspection records and Overture Maps open data. Ratings and hours come live from Apple Maps' own place card.
3. The website in docs/ (generated by scripts/make-site.py): landing page, guides, city pages, the web app at /explore/, privacy, terms. QA with scripts/qa-site.py.

See CLAUDE.md for the rules and commands, and playbook/12-sources.md for sources and calibration.

Official records

• TABC License Information (data.texas.gov) and the Comptroller's Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts: reported alcohol sales, shown as reported.
• Inspection scores as Austin, El Paso and Arlington publish them (score out of 100 and each city's own band or grade). Texas has no statewide grade, and neither do we.

Hand-checked research

data/research/ (private) holds the MICHELIN Guide Texas selection, James Beard honors (finalists never called wins), and regional lists of barbecue joints, Tex-Mex, taquerías, kolaches, chicken-fried steak and the oldest places, each with a 2025–26 source.