Online ordering for kebab shops in Derby

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

In short: Derby has 22 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in DE23 and DE1. A Derby 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 22 premises in Derby with "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma" in the business name, 16 of them registered as takeaways and 6 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in DE23 (10), DE1 (6), DE24 (6). That is 3.5% of the area's 635 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 Derby 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 Derby kebab names

The method is a name-keyword count, not a census: we count premises whose registered name has one of the words, which misses kebab shops trading under other names and includes anything that merely uses the word. The scope is takeaway and sandwich shop plus restaurant, café and canteen premises, and nothing here names a business.

Of the 19 with a numeric rating, 2 (11%) are rated 5 and 3 (16%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 50.4% of all rated takeaways in Derby 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

DE23 holds the most, 10 of the 22 (45%), and the premises sit across 3 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 Derby 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:

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

Derby in the wider picture

Derby has 297 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 338 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 54 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 35 in East Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Derby, 50.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 7.4% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Derby is part of Derbyshire, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Derby against the UK: the numbers

Set against population, Derby has 0.80 kebab-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.51 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 275,344). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Derby comes 39th nationally and 3rd of 35 within the East Midlands.

The word is most concentrated in DE23, where 8% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in DE1 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 3.5%.

On freshness, 41% of the 22 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 29% across all 635 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Derby. The median time since inspection is 16 months for this list and 18 for the whole area.

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 DE23 and DE1, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Derby fits the spread.
• 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.
• Build the kebab in one go. Make bread (pitta, naan, wrap or on chips) a required choice and sauces a pick-several choice, with a surcharge for extras. The ticket shows each choice on its own line, so the kitchen does not have to guess.

Late-night hot food in Derby: 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. Derby's council publishes its process here: Derby council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

Our late night refreshment licence guide sets out the England and Wales rules. In Chefzi, collection hours and delivery hours are separate settings, so you can match whatever your licence allows. This is general information and 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. 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 Derby location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Derby kebab shop

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

Say 45 orders a week, about 195 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £4,875 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 195 orders that is £683 plus £137 VAT, £819 in all, at 14%, or £1,462 plus £292 VAT, £1,755, at 30%.

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

• 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 Derby City, 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.
• Derby council licensing page linked above: https://www.derby.gov.uk/licensing/alcohol-licences/premises-licences/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.