Online ordering for pizza shops in Birmingham

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

In short: the register lists 180 premises in Birmingham with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 105 of them registered as takeaways and 75 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in B8 (11), B44 (9), B14 (8), B19 (8). That is 5.1% of the area's 3,522 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.6% across the UK, so the word is about as common here as in the UK as a whole.

If you run a pizza 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 Birmingham pizza names

The method is a name-keyword count, not a census: we count premises whose registered name has one of the words, which misses pizza shops trading under other names and includes anything that merely uses the word. The scope is takeaway and sandwich shop plus restaurant, café and canteen premises, and nothing here names a business.

Of the 160 with a numeric rating, 63 (39%) are rated 5 and 21 (13%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 42.8% of all rated takeaways in Birmingham that hold a 5. A further 20 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

B8 holds the most, 11 of the 180 (6%), and the premises sit across 8 postcode districts in all. Where several pizza-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 Birmingham 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:

Birmingham has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Birmingham in the wider picture

Birmingham has 972 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 2,550 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 2 of 363 UK council areas, and 1 of 30 in West Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Birmingham, 42.8% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 15.0% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Birmingham is part of West Midlands, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Birmingham pizza names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 1.5, against 1.4 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 1,176,960 for the council area. Birmingham has more of these names than any other UK council area on the register, and ranks 1st of 30 in the West Midlands.

The word is most concentrated in B44, where 12% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in B19 at 6%. Across the whole area the share is 5.1%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 57% inspected within a year (180 dated records) against 45% overall, with a median of 11 months since inspection against 14.

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 B8 and B44, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Birmingham fits the spread.
• Plan for the Friday rush. When the oven is full, pause ordering or lengthen the prep time you give each customer when you accept the order, rather than letting orders pile up. Chefzi has no slot grid, so you control the pace from the app.
• 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).
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro), so a quiet evening can be filled by one message.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is flat out, and mark an item out of stock when it runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot make.

Late-night hot food in Birmingham: 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. Birmingham's council publishes its process here: Birmingham council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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. 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 the way your customers order, and set your delivery zones by postcode district or radius.
3. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each bag (QR kit).
4. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For more, see the pizza page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Birmingham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

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 Birmingham, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "pizza" or "pizzeria", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Birmingham council licensing page linked above: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/LA2003premiseslicence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.