Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Glasgow

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

In short: Glasgow has 67 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in G42 and G11. A Glasgow Indian restaurant 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 67 premises in Glasgow with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 42 of them registered as takeaways and 25 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in G42 (9), G11 (6), G21 (5), G20 (4). That is 2.0% of the area's 3,333 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 Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 52 with a published result, 43 (83%) show a Pass. Scotland uses the Food Hygiene Information Scheme, where a result is Pass or Improvement Required and showing it is voluntary. Across all rated takeaways in Glasgow, 83.9% show a Pass. A result is a snapshot of one inspection.

Where they cluster

G42 holds the most, 9 of the 67 (13%), 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 Glasgow 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:

Glasgow has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: Indian restaurant ordering in North Lanarkshire.

Glasgow in the wider picture

Glasgow has 1,122 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 2,211 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 1 of 363 UK council areas, and 1 of 32 in Scotland. Across all rated takeaways in Glasgow, 83.9% show a Pass against 86.7% across Scotland. Glasgow is part of Glasgow and the West, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Glasgow

Set against population, Glasgow has 1.02 Indian and Pakistani-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.64 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 654,330). By raw count, Glasgow is 2nd of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 1st of 32 in Scotland.

Across the area 2.0% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In G21 that rises to 5%, while in G11 it is 4%.

On freshness, 40% of the 67 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 27% across all 3,333 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Glasgow. The median time since inspection is 15 months for this list and 28 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 G42 and G11, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Glasgow fits the spread.
• 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).
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open, or the other way round, so your ordering hours follow how the kitchen works.
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) when you launch a new dish or a weekday offer.
• Spice level as a required choice. Mild, medium or hot can be a required choice on every curry, with rice or bread as a second choice and extras at a surcharge. The ticket shows each choice on its own line.

Late-night hot food in Glasgow: what to check

In Scotland, selling food or hot drink between 11pm and 5am needs a late hours catering licence from the council, under section 42 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, whether the food is eaten on the premises or taken away. We could not open Glasgow'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. 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 Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Glasgow location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Glasgow Indian restaurant

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Glasgow. No published average order value exists for Glasgow Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 45 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Move 45 weekly orders (roughly 195 a month at £25, £4,875 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 £819 at 14% (£683 plus £137 VAT) or £1,755 at 30% (£1,462 plus £292 VAT).

On Chefzi those 195 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

• 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 Glasgow City, 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.
• Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, section 42: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/42
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.