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

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 13 November 2026. It covers the Lewisham council area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Lewisham page.

In short: Lewisham has 60 FSA-registered premises with chicken, wings or peri-peri in the name, most in SE13 and SE6. A Lewisham 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 60 premises in Lewisham with "chicken", "wing", "wings", "peri-peri" or "piri-piri" in the business name, 57 of them registered as takeaways and 3 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE13 (12), SE6 (10), SE23 (9), SE14 (6). That is 6.0% of the area's 1,003 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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 57 with a numeric rating, 23 (40%) are rated 5 and 3 (5%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 49.1% of all rated takeaways in Lewisham 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

SE13 holds the most, 12 of the 60 (20%), and the premises sit across 8 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 Lewisham 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:

Lewisham has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: chicken shop ordering in Southwark and chicken shop ordering in Lambeth.

Lewisham in the wider picture

Lewisham has 358 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 645 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 33 of 363 UK council areas, and 7 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Lewisham, 49.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Lewisham is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Lewisham chicken and peri-peri names in numbers

Set against population, Lewisham has 1.99 chicken and peri-peri-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.54 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 301,037). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Lewisham comes 7th nationally and 5th of 33 within London.

SE23 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (8%); SE14 is the lowest of these four at 6%. The area-wide share is 6.0%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 47% inspected within a year (60 dated records) against 47% overall, with a median of 12 months since inspection against 12.

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 SE13 and SE6, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Lewisham fits the spread.
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open at the counter, or the other way round.
• 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 Lewisham: what to check

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. We could not open Lewisham's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each bag (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 Lewisham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Lewisham chicken shop

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Lewisham. No published average order value exists for Lewisham chicken shops and peri-peri restaurants, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 20 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Suppose 20 orders a week (about 87 a month, £25 each, £2,175 in sales) shift from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. Just Eat's published rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. At 14% those 87 orders cost £305 plus £61 VAT, £365 in all; at 30% they cost £652 plus £130 VAT, £783.

With Chefzi the 87 orders carry 0% commission and the bill stays at the flat plan price: £22 a month on Plus (£19 billed annually), per location, excluding VAT. We have not modelled card processing fees on either side, and the example ignores orders that remain on the marketplaces.

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 Lewisham, 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.
• Lewisham council licensing page linked above: https://lewisham.gov.uk/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.