Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Newham

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

In short: Newham has 30 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in E12 and E6. A Newham 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 30 premises in Newham with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 13 of them registered as takeaways and 17 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in E12 (10), E6 (6), E7 (6), E13 (4). That is 2.8% of the area's 1,057 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.2% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

Customers who search for a curry in Newham meet a crowded field. Your own ordering page gives them a direct route to your kitchen without a marketplace between you and the customer.

What the FSA register shows for Newham 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 28 with a numeric rating, 9 (32%) are rated 5 and 4 (14%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 35.4% of all rated takeaways in Newham that hold a 5. A further 2 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

The districts where they sit

E12 holds the most, 10 of the 30 (33%), and the premises sit across 6 postcode districts in all. Set a delivery zone for each district you serve with its own fee, minimum order and time, so the busy streets near E12 do not set the terms for everywhere else.

How Newham 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:

Newham has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: Indian restaurant ordering in Redbridge and Indian restaurant ordering in Tower Hamlets.

Newham in the wider picture

Newham has 410 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 647 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 26 of 363 UK council areas, and 5 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Newham, 35.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 15.7% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Newham is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Newham

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.80, against 0.64 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 376,542 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Newham comes 22nd nationally and 6th of 33 within London.

Across the area 2.8% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In E12 that rises to 11%, while in E6 it is 2%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 30 premises on this list with an inspection date, 73% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 59% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 7 months against 10.

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 Newham kitchens

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in E12 and E6, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Newham fits the spread.
• 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.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Newham: what to check

If you sell hot food or drink after 11pm and before 5am, the Licensing Act 2003 treats it as late night refreshment, so you normally need the council's licence. Newham's council publishes its process here: Newham council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

Our late night refreshment licence guide sets out the England and Wales rules. In Chefzi, collection hours and delivery hours are separate settings, so you can match whatever your licence allows. This is general information and 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. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (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 Newham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Newham Indian restaurant

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Newham. No published average order value exists for Newham 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.

Say 45 orders a week, about 195 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £4,875 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 195 orders that is £683 plus £137 VAT, £819 in all, at 14%, or £1,462 plus £292 VAT, £1,755, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 195 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 stays yours: Chefzi has no courier integrations, so you use your own drivers. There is no kiosk and no CRM, and a pre-order lead time applies to the whole location rather than to a single dish. Orders that still arrive through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; Chefzi's job is to help you move regulars to your own page.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Newham, 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.
• Newham council licensing page linked above: https://www.newham.gov.uk/business-licensing-regulation/premises-alcohol-entertainment-license/1 (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.