Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Manchester

Updated 13 November 2026. Source: the Food Standards Agency register, pulled on 12 November 2026. Coverage is the Manchester local authority area; we do not name any business. Whole-area figures are on our Manchester page.

In short: Manchester has 86 FSA-registered premises with curry, tandoori or similar words in the name, most in M12 (16) and M8 (13). A Manchester Indian restaurant can take direct orders with Chefzi: £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), 0% commission ever, and the first month is free with no card.

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 63 with a numeric rating, 29 (46%) are rated 5 and 9 (14%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 23 more are awaiting inspection or publication.

For comparison, among all 586 takeaways in Manchester with a numeric rating, 48% are rated 5. Among the 23 rated takeaways on this list, 52% 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 51 of the 86 (59%). M12, M8, M19 and M14 hold well over half of the list.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Manchester

Using the ONS estimate of 588,256 residents, that works out at 1.05 Indian and Pakistani-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 0.64 across the UK, so Manchester sits above the national rate. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Manchester comes 3rd nationally and 1st of 35 within the North West.

The word is most concentrated in M19, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in M14 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 2.2%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 24% inspected within a year (62 dated records) against 24% overall, with a median of 21 months since inspection against 22.

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

• Separate delivery and collection hours, so you can close delivery when the last driver finishes and keep collection open.
• 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.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.

Just over a quarter of the premises on this list are still awaiting inspection. A new restaurant has no rating to show yet, so your own ordering page, with clear photos and prices, matters from the first week.

Late-night hot food in Manchester

Manchester City Council says a premises licence is needed for late night refreshment, which it describes as the provision of hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am (read 11 November 2026). It publishes model conditions that include a condition that hot food or drink provided after 11pm may only be consumed on the premises, and a condition that customers must not be permitted to remove it from the premises during specified hours. Look at the conditions on your own licence before you take collection or delivery orders late at night. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately.

How to start

1. Put your menu into Chefzi on a short call with us. We set it up with you and aim to have you live in 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 Manchester 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 Manchester Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Manchester. We have no published average order value for Manchester Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 40 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Suppose 40 orders a week (about 173 a month, £25 each, £4,325 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 173 orders cost £606 plus £121 VAT, £727 in all; at 30% they cost £1,298 plus £260 VAT, £1,557.

With Chefzi the 173 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 Manchester, 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.
• Manchester City Council, model conditions for late night refreshment: https://www.manchester.gov.uk/licences-and-permissions/introduction/model-conditions-late-night-refreshment (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Licensing Act 2003, Schedule 2: 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.