Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Swansea

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

In short: Swansea has 23 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in SA1 and SA3. A Swansea 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 23 premises in Swansea 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 6 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SA1 (10), SA3 (4), SA5 (3), SA6 (3). That is 2.8% of the area's 819 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.

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 Swansea 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 19 with a numeric rating, 6 (32%) are rated 5 and 3 (16%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 41.2% of all rated takeaways in Swansea that hold a 5. A further 4 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

SA1 holds the most, 10 of the 23 (43%), and the premises sit across 6 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 Swansea 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:

Swansea has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Swansea in the wider picture

Swansea has 259 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 560 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 74 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 22 in Wales. Across all rated takeaways in Swansea, 41.2% hold a 5 against 54.3% across Wales, and 5.6% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.0%. Swansea is part of South West Wales, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common Indian and Pakistani names are in Swansea

Set against population, Swansea has 0.92 Indian and Pakistani-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.64 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 249,429). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Swansea comes 42nd nationally and 2nd of 22 within Wales.

Across the area 2.8% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In SA5 that rises to 4%, while in SA1 it is 3%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 61% inspected within a year (23 dated records) against 52% overall, with a median of 9 months since inspection against 12.

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 SA1 and SA3, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Swansea fits the spread.
• 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. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every 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.
• 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 Swansea: 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 Swansea'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. 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. 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 Swansea location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Swansea Indian restaurant

These are assumed numbers, not Swansea data: with no published average order value for Swansea Indian and Pakistani restaurants, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 45 orders a week. Use your own.

Move 45 weekly orders (roughly 195 a month at £25, £4,875 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 £819 at 14% (£683 plus £137 VAT) or £1,755 at 30% (£1,462 plus £292 VAT).

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

• 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 Swansea, 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.