Online ordering for Chinese takeaways in Sandwell

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

In short: The FSA register lists 30 premises in Sandwell with Chinese, wok or noodle in the name, most in B65 and B68. A Sandwell Chinese takeaway can keep regulars ordering direct on its own Chefzi page: £9 to £49 a month per location, excluding VAT, 0% commission ever, and a free first month, no card needed.

The register lists 30 premises in Sandwell with "Chinese", "China", "wok", "noodle", "Canton", "Szechuan", "Sichuan", "Peking", "Beijing", "Shanghai", "Hong Kong", "dim sum" or "chow" in the business name, 30 of them registered as takeaways and 0 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in B65 (5), B68 (4), B71 (4), B64 (4). That is 3.3% of the area's 921 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.5% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

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

What the FSA register shows for Sandwell Chinese names

The method is a name-keyword count, not a census: we count premises whose registered name has one of the words, which misses Chinese takeaways trading under other names and includes anything that merely uses the word. The scope is takeaway and sandwich shop plus restaurant, café and canteen premises, and nothing here names a business.

Of the 29 with a numeric rating, 14 (48%) are rated 5 and 0 (0%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 53.2% of all rated takeaways in Sandwell that hold a 5. A further 1 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

B65 holds the most, 5 of the 30 (17%), 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 Sandwell 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:

2 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Sandwell, and 3 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized.

Sandwell in the wider picture

Sandwell has 434 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 487 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 20 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 30 in West Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Sandwell, 53.2% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.2% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Sandwell is part of West Midlands, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Sandwell Chinese names in numbers

Set against population, Sandwell has 0.85 Chinese-named premises for every 10,000 residents, close to the UK figure of 0.73 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 352,918). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Sandwell comes 27th nationally and 3rd of 30 within the West Midlands.

B65 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (7%); B68 is the lowest of these four at 5%. The area-wide share is 3.3%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 30 premises on this list with an inspection date, 37% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 33% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 18 months against 17.

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 B65 and B68, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Sandwell fits the spread.
• 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.
• Sauce and rice or noodles as required choices. Sweet and sour, curry or black bean can be a required choice on each dish, with egg fried rice, boiled rice, noodles or chips as a second, and extras at a surcharge.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• Keep a long menu easy to browse. Split it into sections (starters, rice, noodles, set meals) so a customer does not scroll past 100 dishes to find the one they know.

Late-night hot food in Sandwell: what to check

Between 11pm and 5am, supplying hot food or drink counts as late night refreshment under the Licensing Act 2003, and the local council issues the licence. Sandwell's council publishes its process here: Sandwell 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. Book a short call: we enter your menu with you and aim to have your ordering page live within 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. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. With their permission, tell regulars about the page by SMS or email (how, Plus and Pro).

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

A worked example for a Sandwell Chinese takeaway

These are assumed numbers, not Sandwell data: with no published average order value for Sandwell Chinese takeaways, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 40 orders a week. Use your own.

Say 40 orders a week, about 173 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £4,325 of sales a month. Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% when you use your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. On those 173 orders that is £606 plus £121 VAT, £727 in all, at 14%, or £1,298 plus £260 VAT, £1,557, at 30%.

On Chefzi the same 173 orders carry 0% commission. You pay the flat plan: Plus, which adds card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location, excluding VAT, and it does not change if the month is busier. Card processing charges depend on your payment provider and are not modelled on either side. Orders customers still place through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; the example only covers the ones you move.

What Chefzi does not do

• Delivery: you run your own drivers. Chefzi has no courier integrations.
• No kiosk and no CRM.
• Pre-order lead time is one setting per location, not per dish.
• Marketplace orders still pay the marketplace's commission. Chefzi helps you move regulars across; it does not change what Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats charge.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Sandwell, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "Chinese", "China", "wok", "noodle", "Canton", "Szechuan", "Sichuan", "Peking", "Beijing", "Shanghai", "Hong Kong", "dim sum" or "chow", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Sandwell council licensing page linked above: https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/licensing/premises-licence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.