Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Sunderland

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

In short: The FSA register lists 19 premises in Sunderland with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in SR6 and NE37. A Sunderland 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 19 premises in Sunderland with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 15 of them registered as takeaways and 4 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SR6 (4), NE37 (3), SR5 (2), NE38 (2). That is 2.6% of the area's 733 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.

That makes Sunderland 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 Sunderland 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 16 with a numeric rating, 11 (69%) are rated 5 and 1 (6%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 73.5% of all rated takeaways in Sunderland that hold a 5. A further 3 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

SR6 holds the most, 4 of the 19 (21%), 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 Sunderland 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 Sunderland, and 4 have fewer, so the field here is among the bigger ones nearby.

Sunderland in the wider picture

Sunderland has 365 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 368 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 30 of 363 UK council areas, and 2 of 13 in North East. Across all rated takeaways in Sunderland, 73.5% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 4.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Sunderland is part of Tyne and Wear, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Sunderland against the UK: the numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.66, against 0.64 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 287,070 for the council area. On the register, only 59 council areas have more of these names than Sunderland; within the North East it ranks 3rd of 13.

The word is most concentrated in NE37, where 5% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in SR5 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 2.6%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 19 premises on this list with an inspection date, 42% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 35% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 13 months against 15.

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 SR6 and NE37, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Sunderland fits the spread.
• Put your link where customers already look. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each bag (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.
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) when you launch a new dish or a weekday offer.
• Pause ordering on a busy Friday, and mark a dish out of stock when it runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot cook.

Late-night hot food in Sunderland: what to check

Between 11pm and 5am, supplying hot food or drink counts as late night refreshment under the Licensing Act 2003, and the local council issues the licence. We could not open Sunderland's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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. 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. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (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 Sunderland location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Sunderland Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Sunderland. We have no published average order value for Sunderland 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 Sunderland, 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.
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.