Online ordering for kebab shops in Nottingham

Updated 13 November 2026. Figures come from the Food Standards Agency register as pulled on 12 November 2026. The page covers the Nottingham City local authority area, and no business is named. The whole-area picture is on our Nottingham page.

In short: Nottingham has 21 FSA-registered premises with kebab or doner in the name, most in NG1 (11) and NG7 (7). A Nottingham 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 20 with a numeric rating, 14 (70%) are rated 5 and 3 (15%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. 1 more are awaiting inspection or publication.

For comparison, among all 365 takeaways in Nottingham with a numeric rating, 79% are rated 5. Among the 18 rated takeaways on this list, 72% 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 20 of the 21 (95%). NG1 holds 11 of the 21 and NG7 another seven, so the list is concentrated in just two districts.

Nottingham against the UK: the numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.64, against 0.51 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 325,765 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Nottingham comes 43rd nationally and 4th of 35 within the East Midlands.

The word is most concentrated in NG1, where 3% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in NG5 at 1%. Across the whole area the share is 2.1%.

On freshness, 57% of the 21 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 48% across all 1,022 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Nottingham. The median time since inspection is 10 months for this list and 13 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

• 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.

With so many of these premises close together in NG1 and NG7, delivery areas overlap heavily. A clear delivery minimum and fee per zone matters. See our Nottingham page for the whole-city picture.

Late-night hot food in Nottingham

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 Nottingham 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. Book a short call: we enter your menu with you and aim to have your ordering page live within 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 Nottingham 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 Nottingham kebab shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Nottingham. We have no published average order value for Nottingham kebab shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 20 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Suppose 20 orders a week (about 87 a month, £25 each, £2,175 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 87 orders cost £305 plus £61 VAT, £365 in all; at 30% they cost £652 plus £130 VAT, £783.

With Chefzi the 87 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 Nottingham City, 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.