Online ordering for kebab shops in Lewisham

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 13 November 2026. It covers the Lewisham council area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Lewisham page.

In short: Lewisham has 29 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in SE13 and SE6. A Lewisham 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 29 premises in Lewisham with "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma" in the business name, 26 of them registered as takeaways and 3 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE13 (7), SE6 (6), SE14 (5), SE26 (5). That is 2.9% of the area's 1,003 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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 26 with a numeric rating, 15 (58%) are rated 5 and 1 (4%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 49.1% of all rated takeaways in Lewisham 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

SE13 holds the most, 7 of the 29 (24%), 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 Lewisham 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:

2 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Lewisham, and 3 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized. Neighbouring set-ups: kebab shop ordering in Bromley.

Lewisham in the wider picture

Lewisham has 358 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 645 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 33 of 363 UK council areas, and 7 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Lewisham, 49.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Lewisham is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Lewisham against the UK: the numbers

Set against population, Lewisham has 0.96 kebab-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 0.51 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 301,037). Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Lewisham comes 20th nationally and 7th of 33 within London.

The word is most concentrated in SE26, where 7% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in SE6 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 2.9%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 45% inspected within a year (29 dated records) against 47% overall, with a median of 12 months since inspection against 12.

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 SE13 and SE6, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Lewisham 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 Lewisham: 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 Lewisham's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

For the wider England and Wales rules, read our late night refreshment licence guide. You can set collection and delivery hours independently in Chefzi, which lets your online hours follow your licence conditions. 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. 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 more, see the kebab shop page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Lewisham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Lewisham kebab shop

These are assumed numbers, not Lewisham data: with no published average order value for Lewisham kebab shops, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 30 orders a week. Use your own.

Move 30 weekly orders (roughly 130 a month at £25, £3,250 of sales) from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link and the maths is this. On Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details), 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT, you would pay £546 at 14% (£455 plus £91 VAT) or £1,170 at 30% (£975 plus £195 VAT).

With Chefzi the 130 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 Lewisham, 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.
• Lewisham council licensing page linked above: https://lewisham.gov.uk/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.