Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Stockport

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

In short: Stockport has 27 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in SK8 and SK6. A Stockport 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 27 premises in Stockport with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 16 of them registered as takeaways and 11 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SK8 (9), SK6 (5), SK2 (5), SK7 (2). That is 2.7% of the area's 1,013 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.

If you run an Indian or Pakistani restaurant here, other premises with the same word in their name are likely to be near you, and a customer scrolling a delivery app may see several of you at once. Your own ordering page is the one place where no rival is listed beside you.

What the FSA register shows for Stockport 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 22 with a numeric rating, 11 (50%) are rated 5 and 0 (0%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 63.3% of all rated takeaways in Stockport that hold a 5. A further 5 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Which postcode districts have the most

SK8 holds the most, 9 of the 27 (33%), and the premises sit across 7 postcode districts in all. Where several curry-named kitchens share a district, a short delivery time and a clear minimum order do more to win a repeat customer than a deeper menu.

How Stockport 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 Stockport, and 4 have fewer, so the field here is among the bigger ones nearby. Neighbouring set-ups: Indian restaurant ordering in Manchester.

Stockport in the wider picture

Stockport has 386 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 627 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 28 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 35 in North West. Across all rated takeaways in Stockport, 63.3% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Stockport is part of Greater Manchester, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts. Places in the council area include Stockport and Cheadle Hulme, so a delivery zone set by postcode district can follow the towns a kitchen really serves.

Stockport Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.89, against 0.64 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 304,879 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Stockport comes 27th nationally and 3rd of 35 within the North West.

Across the area 2.7% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In SK2 that rises to 6%, while in SK7 it is 2%.

On freshness, 52% of the 27 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 48% across all 1,013 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Stockport. The median time since inspection is 10 months for this list and 13 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.

What this means for your online ordering

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in SK8 and SK6, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Stockport 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.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Stockport: 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. We could not open Stockport's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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. Send us your menu on a short call. We build it into Chefzi with you, and you should be 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. 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 more, see the Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Stockport location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Stockport Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Stockport. We have no published average order value for Stockport Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 45 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

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%.

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