Online ordering for pizza shops in Brighton and Hove

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

In short: The FSA register lists 59 premises in Brighton and Hove with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in BN1 and BN3. A Brighton and Hove pizza shop can keep regulars ordering direct on its own Chefzi page: £9 to £49 a month per location, excluding VAT, 0% commission ever, and a free first month, no card needed.

The register lists 59 premises in Brighton and Hove with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 35 of them registered as takeaways and 24 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in BN1 (24), BN3 (17), BN2 (17), BN41 (1). That is 4.6% of the area's 1,270 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 Brighton and Hove pizza 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 pizza 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 56 with a numeric rating, 46 (82%) are rated 5 and 1 (2%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 79.9% of all rated takeaways in Brighton and Hove 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.

Which postcode districts have the most

BN1 holds the most, 24 of the 59 (41%), and the premises sit across 4 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 Brighton and Hove 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:

Brighton and Hove has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Brighton and Hove in the wider picture

Brighton and Hove has 255 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,015 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 78 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 64 in South East. Across all rated takeaways in Brighton and Hove, 79.9% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 2.1% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Brighton and Hove is part of East Sussex, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common pizza names are in Brighton and Hove

Per 10,000 residents the count is 2.1, against 1.4 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 284,170 for the council area. By raw count, Brighton and Hove is 34th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 2nd of 64 in the South East.

The word is most concentrated in BN2, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in BN41 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 4.6%.

On freshness, 20% of the 59 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 27% across all 1,270 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Brighton and Hove. The median time since inspection is 18 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

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in BN1 and BN3, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Brighton and Hove 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 deal a menu item. Two pizzas, a side and a drink can be one item with a required choice for each part, instead of a customer typing a note.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Brighton and Hove: what to check

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. Start from the council's licensing section: Brighton and Hove council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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

A worked example for a Brighton and Hove pizza shop

These are assumed numbers, not Brighton and Hove data: with no published average order value for Brighton and Hove pizza shops, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 20 orders a week. Use your own.

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.

On Chefzi the same 87 orders carry 0% commission. You pay the flat plan: Plus, which adds card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location, excluding VAT, and it does not change if the month is busier. Card processing charges depend on your payment provider and are not modelled on either side. Orders customers still place through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; the example only covers the ones you move.

What Chefzi does not do

• Delivery: you run your own drivers. Chefzi has no courier integrations.
• No kiosk and no CRM.
• Pre-order lead time is one setting per location, not per dish.
• Marketplace orders still pay the marketplace's commission. Chefzi helps you move regulars across; it does not change what Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats charge.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Brighton and Hove, 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.
• Brighton and Hove council licensing page linked above: https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/about-website/privacy-and-data/service-privacy-notices/new-premises-licence-application-privacy-notice (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.