Online ordering for kebab shops in Croydon

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

In short: Croydon has 34 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in CR0 and CR7. A Croydon 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.

The register lists 34 premises in Croydon with "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma" in the business name, 31 of them registered as takeaways and 3 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in CR0 (12), CR7 (5), CR2 (4), SE25 (4). That is 3.4% of the area's 1,004 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 1.7% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

That makes Croydon a place where a direct ordering page earns its keep: the same few streets hold a lot of kebab-named premises, so being easy to find and easy to order from is the whole game.

What the FSA register shows for Croydon 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 look at takeaway and sandwich shop premises and at restaurant, café and canteen premises only, and we do not name any business.

Of the 34 with a numeric rating, 20 (59%) are rated 5 and 3 (9%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 52.1% of all rated takeaways in Croydon that hold a 5. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Where they cluster

CR0 holds the most, 12 of the 34 (35%), 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 Croydon 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:

Croydon has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: kebab shop ordering in Bromley and kebab shop ordering in Lewisham.

Croydon in the wider picture

Croydon has 418 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 586 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 24 of 363 UK council areas, and 4 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Croydon, 52.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 8.5% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Croydon is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Croydon against the UK: the numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.83, against 0.51 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 410,085 for the council area. By raw count, Croydon is 7th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 2nd of 33 in London.

Across the area 3.4% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In CR7 that rises to 5%, while in CR0 it is 3%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 47% inspected within a year (34 dated records) against 46% overall, with a median of 13 months since inspection against 13.

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 CR0 and CR7, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Croydon fits the spread.
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open at the counter, or the other way round.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.
• Make the meal deal a menu item. A kebab, chips and a drink can be one item with required choices for each part, so the customer builds it in a few taps.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is flat out, and mark an item out of stock when the meat runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot make.

Late-night hot food in Croydon: what to check

If you sell hot food or drink after 11pm and before 5am, the Licensing Act 2003 treats it as late night refreshment, so you normally need the council's licence. Croydon's council publishes its process here: Croydon council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each 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 kebab shop page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Croydon location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Croydon kebab shop

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Croydon. No published average order value exists for Croydon kebab shops, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 35 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Say 35 orders a week, about 152 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £3,800 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 152 orders that is £532 plus £106 VAT, £638 in all, at 14%, or £1,140 plus £228 VAT, £1,368, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 152 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 Croydon, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Croydon council licensing page linked above: https://www.croydon.gov.uk/business-licences-and-tenders/licences-permits-and-registrations/apply/alcohol-entertainment-food-licences/alcohol/make-minor-variation-premises-or-club-licence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.