Online ordering for kebab shops in Great Yarmouth

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

In short: Great Yarmouth has 19 premises with kebab or doner in the name on the FSA register, most in NR30 and NR31. A Great Yarmouth kebab shop can run its own ordering page with Chefzi: £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), 0% commission ever, first month free with no card.

The register lists 19 premises in Great Yarmouth with "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma" in the business name, 17 of them registered as takeaways and 2 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in NR30 (11), NR31 (5), NR29 (3). That is 4.6% of the area's 414 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.

If you run a kebab shop 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 Great Yarmouth kebab 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 kebab shops 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 18 with a numeric rating, 7 (39%) are rated 5 and 1 (6%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 62.5% of all rated takeaways in Great Yarmouth 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.

Which postcode districts have the most

NR30 holds the most, 11 of the 19 (58%), and the premises sit across 3 postcode districts in all. Where several kebab-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 Great Yarmouth 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:

Great Yarmouth has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: kebab shop ordering in East Suffolk.

Great Yarmouth in the wider picture

Great Yarmouth has 174 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 240 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 123 of 363 UK council areas, and 7 of 45 in East of England. Across all rated takeaways in Great Yarmouth, 62.5% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 7.1% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Great Yarmouth is part of Norfolk, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts. Places in the council area include Great Yarmouth and Gorleston-on-Sea, so a delivery zone set by postcode district can follow the towns a kitchen really serves.

Great Yarmouth kebab names in numbers

Set against population, Great Yarmouth has 1.88 kebab-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.51 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 100,957). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Great Yarmouth comes 53rd nationally and 1st of 45 within East of England.

Across the whole area 4.6% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words, and in each of these districts it is 5%, about the same.

On freshness, 47% of the 19 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 58% across all 414 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Great Yarmouth. The median time since inspection is 12 months for this list and 11 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.

What this means for your online ordering

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in NR30 and NR31, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Great Yarmouth fits the spread.
• Put your link where customers already look. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code on every bag (QR kit).
• 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.
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro), so a quiet evening can be filled by one message.

Late-night hot food in Great Yarmouth: what to check

Between 11pm and 5am, supplying hot food or drink counts as late night refreshment under the Licensing Act 2003, and the local council issues the licence. We could not open Great Yarmouth'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. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
4. With their permission, tell regulars about the page by SMS or email (how, 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 Great Yarmouth location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Great Yarmouth kebab shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Great Yarmouth. We have no published average order value for Great Yarmouth kebab shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 45 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Suppose 45 orders a week (about 195 a month, £25 each, £4,875 in sales) shift from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. Just Eat's published rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. At 14% those 195 orders cost £683 plus £137 VAT, £819 in all; at 30% they cost £1,462 plus £292 VAT, £1,755.

With Chefzi the 195 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 Great Yarmouth, 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.
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.