Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Coventry

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 12 November 2026. It covers the Coventry local authority area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Coventry page.

In short: Coventry has 44 FSA-registered premises with curry, tandoori or similar words in the name, most in CV6 (16) and CV1 (8). A Coventry Indian restaurant can give regulars its own ordering page: Chefzi plans cost £9 to £49 a month per location, excluding VAT, with 0% commission ever and a free first month, no card needed.

What the FSA register shows

This is a name-keyword count, not a census. It finds only premises whose registered name includes one of those words. It misses Indian or Pakistani restaurants and takeaways with other names, and it may include places that use a word for something else. We left out retailers and mobile caterers.

Of the 29 with a numeric rating, 17 (59%) are rated 5 and 0 (0%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 15 more are awaiting inspection or publication.

For comparison, among all 344 takeaways in Coventry with a numeric rating, 67% are rated 5. Among the 12 rated takeaways on this list, 83% are, which is above that figure. These are small samples, so treat the gap as a pointer and not a verdict on any business.

Where they are

The top four postcode districts hold 38 of the 44 (86%). CV6 on its own holds more than a third of the list, which is the most concentrated district on any of these city pages.

Coventry Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.99, against 0.64 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 364,766 for the council area. On the register, only 12 council areas have more of these names than Coventry; within the West Midlands it ranks 2nd of 30.

CV5 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (6%); CV1 is the lowest of these four at 2%. The area-wide share is 3.5%.

These premises are less recently inspected than the area as a whole: 25% inspected within a year (36 dated records) against 39% overall, with a median of 32 months since inspection against 16.

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.

What this means for your online ordering

• Spice level and extras as required choices. Modifiers can be required, so you can make heat level a required single choice, and rice, naan and side dishes a pick-several choice with a minimum and maximum. The ticket shows each choice on its own line.
• Pause ordering and mark dishes out of stock when the kitchen is busy or an ingredient has run out.
• Table bookings for a sit-down room. A guest can request a table and you confirm it; there is no card deposit on a booking.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are both available, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.

Fifteen of the 44 premises are still awaiting inspection, and none of the rated ones is rated 0, 1 or 2. If your shop is in CV6, your delivery area overlaps with a large share of the list, so a clear delivery fee and minimum per zone matters.

Late-night hot food in Coventry

Under the Licensing Act 2003, a person provides late night refreshment if, at any time between 11.00 p.m. and 5.00 a.m., they supply hot food or hot drink to the public from any premises, whether for consumption on or off the premises. That applies to takeaway and delivery. In Coventry the licence comes from the local council. Check your own licence hours before you take collection or delivery orders late at night, and set your online hours inside them.

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. Make the key choices required so every ticket is complete.
3. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
4. Once customers agree to hear from you, send them the link (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro).

For the rest of the story, see the Indian restaurants page, the Coventry page, the commission calculator and moving customers from Just Eat to your own site. If your food is halal, say so in words you can stand behind: see halal menu wording.

A worked example for a Coventry Indian restaurant

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Coventry. No published average order value exists for Coventry Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Say 30 orders a week, about 130 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £3,250 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 130 orders that is £455 plus £91 VAT, £546 in all, at 14%, or £975 plus £195 VAT, £1,170, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 130 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

• 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 Coventry, name search for words such as "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab", extract 12 November 2026, restaurants, cafés, takeaways and other catering premises only. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Licensing Act 2003, Schedule 2 (provision of late night refreshment): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/schedule/2 (read 12 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 12 November 2026.