Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Croydon

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

In short: The FSA register lists 27 premises in Croydon with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in CR0 and SW16. A Croydon Indian restaurant 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 27 premises in Croydon with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 12 of them registered as takeaways and 15 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in CR0 (11), SW16 (5), CR2 (4), CR5 (3). That is 2.7% of the area's 1,004 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.2% across the UK, so the word is about as common here as in the UK as a whole.

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

What the FSA register shows for Croydon Indian and Pakistani names

Read this as a name-keyword count, not a census. A premises is counted only if its registered name contains one of the words, so Indian and Pakistani restaurants with other names are missed and any place using the word for something else is included. Only takeaway, sandwich shop, restaurant, café and canteen premises are counted, and no business is named.

Of the 26 with a numeric rating, 10 (38%) are rated 5 and 1 (4%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 52.1% of all rated takeaways in Croydon 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

CR0 holds the most, 11 of the 27 (41%), 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 Croydon 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:

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

Croydon in the wider picture

Croydon has 418 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 586 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 24 of 363 UK council areas, and 4 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Croydon, 52.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 8.5% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Croydon is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Croydon Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Set against population, Croydon has 0.66 Indian and Pakistani-named premises for every 10,000 residents, close to the UK figure of 0.64 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 410,085). On the register, only 26 council areas have more of these names than Croydon; within London it ranks 8th of 33.

The word is most concentrated in SW16, where 7% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in CR0 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 2.7%.

On freshness, 44% of the 27 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 46% across all 1,004 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Croydon. The median time since inspection is 16 months for this list and 13 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 CR0 and SW16, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Croydon fits the spread.
• Sell the set meal as one item. A meal for two or a family feast can be one menu item with a required choice for each curry, rice and side.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• Take party and office orders in advance. The catering feature lets customers book big orders for a date and time, with the notice you set, in their own section of the menu.
• Put your link where customers already look. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).

Late-night hot food in Croydon: 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. Croydon's council publishes its process here: Croydon 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. 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 Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Croydon location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Croydon Indian restaurant

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

Suppose 25 orders a week (about 108 a month, £25 each, £2,700 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 108 orders cost £378 plus £76 VAT, £454 in all; at 30% they cost £810 plus £162 VAT, £972.

On Chefzi those 108 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 Croydon, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Croydon council licensing page linked above: https://www.croydon.gov.uk/business-licences-and-tenders/licences-permits-and-registrations/apply/alcohol-entertainment-food-licences/alcohol/make-minor-variation-premises-or-club-licence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.