Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Nottingham

Updated 13 November 2026. Figures come from the Food Standards Agency register as pulled on 12 November 2026. The page covers the Nottingham City local authority area, and no business is named. The whole-area picture is on our Nottingham page.

In short: Nottingham has 24 FSA-registered premises with curry, tandoori or similar words in the name, most in NG1 (6) and NG7 (6). A Nottingham 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 23 with a numeric rating, 18 (78%) are rated 5 and 0 (0%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 1 more are awaiting inspection or publication.

For comparison, among all 365 takeaways in Nottingham with a numeric rating, 79% are rated 5. Among the 12 rated takeaways on this list, 75% are, which is below 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 20 of the 24 (83%). NG1 and NG7 lead with six each, and the whole list sits in just seven postcode districts, so most shops share their delivery area with others.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Nottingham

Set against population, Nottingham has 0.58 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: 325,765). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Nottingham comes 60th nationally and 4th of 35 within the East Midlands.

The word is most concentrated in NG6, where 5% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in NG1 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 1.9%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 19 premises on this list with an inspection date, 32% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 48% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 13 months against 13.

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.
• Separate delivery and collection hours, so you can close delivery when the last driver finishes and keep collection open.
• Pause ordering and mark dishes out of stock when the kitchen is busy or an ingredient has run out.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are both available, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.

This is the smallest of the Indian and Pakistani lists on our city pages, so read the percentages as a rough picture. None of the rated premises on the list is rated 0, 1 or 2.

Late-night hot food in Nottingham

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 Nottingham 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. 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. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For the rest of the story, see the Indian restaurants page, the Nottingham 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 Nottingham Indian restaurant

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

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.

With Chefzi the 108 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 Nottingham City, 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.