Online ordering for kebab shops in Leeds

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 Leeds only; for the whole-city picture see our Leeds page.

In short: Leeds has 35 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in LS8 (5) and LS11 (4). A Leeds 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.

Leeds has fewer kebab-named premises than Birmingham or Manchester, so the field is less crowded, and it is notable for how the council has treated late-night takeaway hours in practice.

What the FSA register shows for Leeds 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 30 with a numeric rating, 12 (40%) are rated 5 and 1 (3%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 4 more are awaiting inspection or publication. The register is a snapshot.

Where they cluster

LS8 holds the most, followed by LS11, LS1 and LS2. The spread across inner and outer districts means delivery times vary, so set a zone for each area you deliver to with its own fee, minimum and time.

How common kebab names are in Leeds

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.40, against 0.51 for the UK as a whole, which is below the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 840,550 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Leeds comes 7th nationally and 1st of 16 within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Across the area 1.2% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In LS8 that rises to 3%, while in LS1 it is 1%.

On freshness, 38% of the 34 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 28% across all 2,771 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Leeds. The median time since inspection is 16 months for this list and 17 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

• 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.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is overwhelmed, and mark an item out of stock when the meat has run out.
• 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 Leeds: what the council publishes

In Leeds the licence for hot food after 11pm comes from Leeds City Council's Entertainment Licensing team. These points come from its own pages and its published committee papers, read on 11 November 2026.

• Leeds City Council says you need a premises licence to serve late night refreshments on commercial premises between 11pm and 5am. After you apply you display a notice at the premises for 28 days, and the council says that if no comments or objections are received in that period, the licence will automatically be granted.
• The council's published fee table is by non-domestic rateable value band. For a new or varied premises licence the application fee runs from £100 (band A, rateable value up to £4,300) to £635 (band E, over £125,000), and the annual charge from £70 to £350.
• Its Statement of Licensing Policy 2023 to 2027 says planning permission is generally required for new premises or a change of use, so a licence on its own does not mean you can open a takeaway.
• The council can cut the hours you ask for. At a Licensing Sub-Committee meeting on 3 December 2024, a Leeds takeaway applied for late night refreshment from 23:00 to 05:00 every day. The committee granted it with a terminal hour of midnight, on a delivery-only basis, with conditions proposed by West Yorkshire Police and Environmental Protection.

A delivery-only licence is exactly the case Chefzi's separate collection and delivery hours were made for: you can switch off collection at the counter while delivery stays on, within whatever hours your licence allows.

How to start

1. Put your menu into Chefzi on a short call with us. We set it up with you and aim to have you live in 24 to 48 hours.
2. Set required choices for bread and sauces, and your delivery hours to match your licence.
3. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. Once customers agree to hear from you, send them the link (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro).

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 Leeds kebab shop

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

Say 25 orders a week, about 108 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £2,700 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 108 orders that is £378 plus £76 VAT, £454 in all, at 14%, or £810 plus £162 VAT, £972, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 108 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

Delivery stays yours: Chefzi has no courier integrations, so you use your own drivers. There is no kiosk and no CRM, and a pre-order lead time applies to the whole location rather than to a single dish. Orders that still arrive through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; Chefzi's job is to help you move regulars to your own page.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Leeds, 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.
• Leeds City Council, premises licences: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/licensing/alcohol-and-entertainment/premises-licence (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Leeds City Council, Statement of Licensing Policy 2023 to 2027: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/licensing/statement-of-licensing-policy (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Leeds City Council Licensing Sub-Committee, 3 December 2024, item 8: https://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=101084 (read 11 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 12 November 2026.