Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Wigan

Updated 13 November 2026. Source: the Food Standards Agency register, pulled on 13 November 2026. Coverage is the Wigan council area; we do not name any business. Whole-area figures are on our Wigan page.

In short: Wigan has 26 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in WN7 and WN2. A Wigan 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 26 premises in Wigan 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 9 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in WN7 (4), WN2 (3), WN5 (3), M29 (3). That is 2.0% of the area's 1,305 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 Wigan 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 Wigan 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 25 with a numeric rating, 3 (12%) are rated 5 and 6 (24%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 27.4% of all rated takeaways in Wigan that hold a 5. A further 1 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

WN7 holds the most, 4 of the 26 (15%), 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 Wigan 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 Wigan, and 4 have fewer, so the field here is among the bigger ones nearby.

Wigan in the wider picture

Wigan has 370 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 935 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 29 of 363 UK council areas, and 4 of 35 in North West. Across all rated takeaways in Wigan, 27.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 14.9% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Wigan is part of Greater Manchester, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Wigan Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 347,089 residents, that works out at 0.75 Indian and Pakistani-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 0.64 across the UK, so Wigan sits close to the national rate. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Wigan comes 31st nationally and 5th of 35 within the North West.

The word is most concentrated in M29, where 3% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in WN7 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 2.0%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 26 premises on this list with an inspection date, 54% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 42% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 12 months against 14.

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 WN7 and WN2, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Wigan 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.
• Sell the set meal as one item. A meal for two or a family feast can be one menu item with a required choice for each curry, rice and side.
• 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 Wigan: 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 Wigan'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. 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 Wigan location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Wigan Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Wigan. We have no published average order value for Wigan Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Say 30 orders a week, about 130 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £3,250 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 130 orders that is £455 plus £91 VAT, £546 in all, at 14%, or £975 plus £195 VAT, £1,170, at 30%.

On Chefzi those 130 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 Wigan, 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.
• Wigan council licensing page linked above: https://www.wigan.gov.uk/index.aspx (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.