Online ordering for kebab shops in Liverpool

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 12 November 2026. It covers the Liverpool local authority area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Liverpool page.

In short: Liverpool has 30 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in L4 (6) and L1 (4). A Liverpool 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.

What the FSA register shows

This is a name-keyword count, not a census. It finds only premises whose registered name includes one of those words. It misses kebab shops with other names, and it may include places that use a word for something else. We left out retailers and mobile caterers.

Of the 12 with a numeric rating, 2 (17%) are rated 5 and 3 (25%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 18 more are awaiting inspection or publication.

For comparison, among all 478 takeaways in Liverpool with a numeric rating, 43% are rated 5. Among the 12 rated takeaways on this list, 17% are, which is below that figure. These are small samples, so treat the gap as a pointer and not a verdict on any business.

Where they are

The top four postcode districts hold 17 of the 30 (57%). L4 has six, with L1 and L7 on four each, and the list is spread across 13 postcode districts.

Liverpool kebab names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.61, against 0.51 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 507,915 for the council area. On the register, only 14 council areas have more of these names than Liverpool; within the North West it ranks 2nd of 35.

L4 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (5%); L1 is the lowest of these four at 1%. The area-wide share is 1.8%.

On freshness, 10% of the 31 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 20% across all 1,761 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Liverpool. The median time since inspection is 1510 months for this list and 48 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.

Turkish takeaways in Liverpool

The register has 7 premises in Liverpool with a Turkish-style word in the name (turkish 5, istanbul 2): 2 registered as takeaways and 5 as restaurants or cafés, most in L1 (3), L3 (1), L9 (1). That is 0.14 per 10,000 residents against 0.09 across the UK. This is a name count, so it misses Turkish kitchens trading under other names. If you run one, see our Turkish restaurants page.

What this means for your online ordering

• 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.
• Separate delivery and collection hours. You can stop delivery when the last driver finishes and keep collection open.
• 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.

Most of the premises on this list are still awaiting their first rating, so many customers have nothing to compare yet. Until a rating arrives, your own ordering page, with clear prices and photos, is what they can judge you on. See our Liverpool page for the whole-city picture.

Late-night hot food in Liverpool

Under the Licensing Act 2003, a person provides late night refreshment if, at any time between 11.00 p.m. and 5.00 a.m., they supply hot food or hot drink to the public from any premises, whether for consumption on or off the premises. That applies to takeaway and delivery. In Liverpool the licence comes from the local council. Check your own licence hours before you take collection or delivery orders late at night, and set your online hours inside them.

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. Make the key choices required so every ticket is complete.
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 the rest of the story, see the kebab shops page, the Liverpool page, the commission calculator and 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 Liverpool kebab shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Liverpool. We have no published average order value for Liverpool kebab shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

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

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 Liverpool, name search for "kebab", "kebap", "kabab", "kabob", "doner", "shawarma" or "shawerma", extract 12 November 2026, restaurants, cafés, takeaways and other catering premises only. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Licensing Act 2003, Schedule 2 (provision of late night refreshment): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/17/schedule/2 (read 12 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 12 November 2026.