Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Sandwell

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 13 November 2026. It covers the Sandwell council area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Sandwell page.

In short: The FSA register lists 32 premises in Sandwell with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in B70 and B69. A Sandwell 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 32 premises in Sandwell with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 17 of them registered as takeaways and 15 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in B70 (5), B69 (5), B66 (5), B65 (4). That is 3.5% of the area's 921 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.

That makes Sandwell 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 Sandwell Indian and Pakistani names

This is a name-keyword count, not a census. It only finds premises whose registered name includes one of those words, so it misses Indian and Pakistani restaurants with other names, and it counts anything with the word in it, whatever it sells. We look at takeaway and sandwich shop premises and at restaurant, café and canteen premises only, and we do not name any business.

Of the 25 with a numeric rating, 12 (48%) are rated 5 and 2 (8%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 53.2% of all rated takeaways in Sandwell that hold a 5. A further 7 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

B70 holds the most, 5 of the 32 (16%), 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 Sandwell 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:

1 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Sandwell, and 4 have fewer, so the field here is among the bigger ones nearby. Neighbouring set-ups: Indian restaurant ordering in Birmingham.

Sandwell in the wider picture

Sandwell has 434 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 487 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 20 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 30 in West Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Sandwell, 53.2% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.2% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Sandwell is part of West Midlands, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Sandwell

Using the ONS estimate of 352,918 residents, that works out at 0.91 Indian and Pakistani-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 0.64 across the UK, so Sandwell sits above the national rate. On the register, only 15 council areas have more of these names than Sandwell; within the West Midlands it ranks 3rd of 30.

B65 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (6%); B66 is the lowest of these four at 3%. The area-wide share is 3.5%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 31% inspected within a year (32 dated records) against 33% overall, with a median of 20 months since inspection against 17.

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 B70 and B69, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Sandwell fits the spread.
• Pause ordering on a busy Friday, and mark a dish out of stock when it runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot cook.
• 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.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, 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.

Late-night hot food in Sandwell: what to check

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. Sandwell's council publishes its process here: Sandwell 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. 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. 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. Once customers agree to hear from you, send them the link (SMS and email marketing, 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 Sandwell location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Sandwell Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Sandwell. We have no published average order value for Sandwell 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.

Move 40 weekly orders (roughly 173 a month at £25, £4,325 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 £727 at 14% (£606 plus £121 VAT) or £1,557 at 30% (£1,298 plus £260 VAT).

On Chefzi the same 173 orders carry 0% commission. You pay the flat plan: Plus, which adds card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location, excluding VAT, and it does not change if the month is busier. Card processing charges depend on your payment provider and are not modelled on either side. Orders customers still place through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; the example only covers the ones you move.

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 Sandwell, 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.
• Sandwell council licensing page linked above: https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/licensing/premises-licence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.