Online ordering for kebab shops in Birmingham

Updated 13 November 2026. This page uses the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 12 November 2026, and the council pages named in the sources. It is about Birmingham only; for the whole-city picture see our Birmingham page.

In short: Birmingham has 70 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in B19 (8) and B12 (6). A Birmingham kebab shop 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.

Birmingham has more kebab-named premises than any other council in our check of about 100 (a selection, not every council). Its ratings are more mixed than in the other cities on this page, and just over a quarter are still awaiting inspection. That makes a clear, well-run ordering page a way to stand out.

What the FSA register shows for Birmingham kebab 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 kebab shops with other names, and it counts anything with the word in it, whatever it sells. We label it that way throughout, and we do not name any business.

Of the 52 with a numeric rating, 12 (23%) are rated 5 and 14 (27%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 18 more are awaiting inspection or publication. This is a name-keyword sample, not a ranking of kebab shops in general, and it should not be read as a verdict on any business.

Where they cluster

B19 and B12 together hold 14 of the list. Several districts have 4 to 6 each, so there is no single hotspot: most shops will have rivals in the next district over.

How common kebab names are in Birmingham

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.54, against 0.51 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 1,176,960 for the council area. Birmingham has more of these names than any other UK council area on the register, and ranks 1st of 30 in the West Midlands.

Across the area 1.8% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In B19 that rises to 6%, while in B12 it is 4%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 62% inspected within a year (63 dated records) against 45% overall, with a median of 9 months since inspection 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.

Turkish takeaways in Birmingham

Turkish names are a separate count on our pages. In Birmingham the FSA register lists 8 with turkish, mangal, ocakbasi, istanbul or anatolia in the name (turkish 6, istanbul 2), 0 of them takeaways and 8 restaurants or cafés, led by B26 (3), B18 (1), B16 (1). That is 0.07 per 10,000 residents against 0.09 across the UK. Names only, so a Turkish grill with another name is missed; for those kitchens, start from the Turkish restaurants page.

What this means for your online ordering

• You are one tap from rivals. With this many shops with the same word in the name, customers browsing a marketplace may see several of you at once. Your own ordering page is the one place where no rival is listed beside you.
• Make the order simple to build. In Chefzi, bread (pitta, naan, wrap or on chips) can be a required choice on each kebab, sauces a pick-several choice, and a group can set a minimum and a maximum. The ticket shows each choice on its own line.
• Separate delivery and collection hours. You can stop delivery when the last driver finishes and keep collection open.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is overwhelmed, and mark an item out of stock when the meat has run out.

Late-night hot food in Birmingham: what the council publishes

Birmingham City Council licenses late night takeaways under the Licensing Act 2003. These points come from its own published policy and pages, read on 11 November 2026.

• Birmingham City Council's Statement of Licensing Policy defines late night refreshment as the supply of hot food or drink to the public, for consumption on or off the premises, between 11pm and 5am, with mobile units included. The version we read is headed as an interim policy dated 2020, so check whether the council has published a newer one.
• Applicants for a licence or a variation must send an operating schedule stating the licensable activities, the times they take place, any other times the premises are open to the public and the steps proposed to promote the licensing objectives.
• The council keeps a public register of Licensing Act 2003 premises licences, including those under review, so you can check what applies to your own street.

If you deliver after 11pm, your online hours need to sit inside the hours on your licence, so set delivery hours in Chefzi to match your operating schedule and keep collection hours separate if they differ.

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 bread and sauces, and your delivery hours to match your licence.
3. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
4. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For the rest of the story, see the kebab shop page, commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site. If your food is halal, say so in words you can stand behind: see halal menu wording.

A worked example for a Birmingham kebab shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Birmingham. We have no published average order value for Birmingham kebab shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 40 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Say 40 orders a week, about 173 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £4,325 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 173 orders that is £606 plus £121 VAT, £727 in all, at 14%, or £1,298 plus £260 VAT, £1,557, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 173 orders carry 0% commission and the bill stays at the flat plan price: £22 a month on Plus (£19 billed annually), per location, excluding VAT. We have not modelled card processing fees on either side, and the example ignores orders that remain on the marketplaces.

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 Birmingham, name search for "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma", extract 12 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Birmingham City Council, Statement of Licensing Policy (PDF): https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/831/licensing_act_2003_-_statement_of_licensing_policy.pdf (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Birmingham City Council, Licensing Act 2003 public register: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20081/licensing/912/licensing_act_2003_public_register (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 12 November 2026.