Online ordering for chicken shops and peri-peri restaurants in Derby

Updated 13 November 2026. Figures come from the Food Standards Agency register as pulled on 13 November 2026. The page covers the Derby council area, and no business is named. The whole-area picture is on our Derby page.

In short: Derby has 16 FSA-registered premises with chicken, wings or peri-peri in the name, most in DE23 and DE1. A Derby chicken shop can take direct orders on its own Chefzi page: plans run from £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), commission is 0% ever, and the first month is free with no card.

The register lists 16 premises in Derby with "chicken", "wing", "wings", "peri-peri" or "piri-piri" in the business name, 14 of them registered as takeaways and 2 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in DE23 (6), DE1 (5), DE24 (3), DE22 (1). That is 2.5% of the area's 635 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 1.8% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

That makes Derby a place where a direct ordering page earns its keep: the same few streets hold a lot of chicken-named premises, so being easy to find and easy to order from is the whole game.

What the FSA register shows for Derby chicken and peri-peri names

This is a name-keyword count, not a census. It only finds premises whose registered name includes one of those words, so it misses chicken shops and peri-peri restaurants with other names, and it counts anything with the word in it, whatever it sells. We look at takeaway and sandwich shop premises and at restaurant, café and canteen premises only, and we do not name any business.

Of the 13 with a numeric rating, 3 (23%) are rated 5 and 3 (23%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 50.4% of all rated takeaways in Derby that hold a 5. A further 3 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Where they cluster

DE23 holds the most, 6 of the 16 (38%), and the premises sit across 5 postcode districts in all. A zone per district lets you charge a small fee for the close streets and a higher minimum for the outer ones, in Chefzi's delivery zones.

How Derby compares with the council areas next to it

The five nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises, with the same name-keyword count:

Derby has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Derby in the wider picture

Derby has 297 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 338 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 54 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 35 in East Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Derby, 50.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 7.4% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Derby is part of Derbyshire, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common chicken and peri-peri names are in Derby

Using the ONS estimate of 275,344 residents, that works out at 0.58 chicken and peri-peri-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 0.54 across the UK, so Derby sits close to the national rate. By raw count, Derby is 65th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 4th of 35 in the East Midlands.

DE23 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (5%); DE22 is the lowest of these four at 1%. The area-wide share is 2.5%.

On freshness, 44% of the 16 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 29% across all 635 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Derby. The median time since inspection is 14 months for this list and 18 for the whole area.

Population figures are ONS mid-2025 estimates; every other figure comes from the same FSA register pull as the tables above. Small samples move a lot from one inspection to the next, so read the shares as a guide to where the pattern is, not as a verdict on any business.

How a direct ordering page helps here

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in DE23 and DE1, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Derby fits the spread.
• Put your link where customers already look. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code on every bag (QR kit).
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro), so a quiet evening can be filled by one message.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is flat out, and mark an item out of stock when it runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot make.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.

Late-night hot food in Derby: what to check

If you sell hot food or drink after 11pm and before 5am, the Licensing Act 2003 treats it as late night refreshment, so you normally need the council's licence. Derby's council publishes its process here: Derby council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

The general rules for England and Wales are in our late night refreshment licence guide. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately, so your ordering hours can follow whatever your licence conditions say. This is general information, not legal advice.

How to start

1. Send us your menu on a short call. We build it into Chefzi with you, and you should be live in 24 to 48 hours.
2. Set required choices for the way your customers order, and set your delivery zones by postcode district or radius.
3. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
4. With their permission, tell regulars about the page by SMS or email (how, Plus and Pro).

For more, see the chicken shop page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Derby location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Derby chicken shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Derby. We have no published average order value for Derby chicken shops and peri-peri restaurants, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Move 30 weekly orders (roughly 130 a month at £25, £3,250 of sales) from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link and the maths is this. On Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details), 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT, you would pay £546 at 14% (£455 plus £91 VAT) or £1,170 at 30% (£975 plus £195 VAT).

On Chefzi those 130 orders cost no commission. The flat Plus plan, which includes card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location excluding VAT, however busy the month is. Payment-provider card fees are left out of both sides, and any orders that stay on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats still pay their commission.

What Chefzi does not do

• It does not set up delivery for you: you run your own drivers, and Chefzi has no courier integrations.
• It has no kiosk and no CRM.
• A pre-order lead time is set for the whole location, not for one dish.
• Orders placed on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats still pay those apps' commission. Chefzi helps you move regular customers to your own site.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Derby City, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "chicken", "wing", "wings", "peri-peri" or "piri-piri", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Derby council licensing page linked above: https://www.derby.gov.uk/licensing/alcohol-licences/premises-licences/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.