Online ordering for pizza shops in Bristol

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

In short: The FSA register lists 85 premises in Bristol with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in BS5 and BS1. A Bristol 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 85 premises in Bristol with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 56 of them registered as takeaways and 29 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in BS5 (12), BS1 (11), BS3 (10), BS7 (9). That is 4.4% of the area's 1,928 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 Bristol 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 78 with a numeric rating, 54 (69%) are rated 5 and 2 (3%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 61.1% of all rated takeaways in Bristol that hold a 5. A further 7 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

BS5 holds the most, 12 of the 85 (14%), 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 Bristol 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:

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

Bristol in the wider picture

Bristol has 427 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,501 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 21 of 363 UK council areas, and 2 of 27 in South West. Across all rated takeaways in Bristol, 61.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 3.1% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%.

Bristol against the UK: the numbers

Set against population, Bristol has 1.7 pizza-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 1.4 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 495,260). On the register, only 8 council areas have more of these names than Bristol; within the South West it ranks 1st of 27.

The word is most concentrated in BS3, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in BS1 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 4.4%.

These premises are less recently inspected than the area as a whole: 32% inspected within a year (85 dated records) against 37% overall, with a median of 16 months since inspection against 16.

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 BS5 and BS1, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Bristol fits the spread.
• 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).
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open at the counter, or the other way round.
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro), so a quiet evening can be filled by one message.
• Size, base and toppings in one flow. Size and crust can be required choices and toppings a pick-several choice with a surcharge for each, so the ticket shows exactly what to make.

Late-night hot food in Bristol: 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. Bristol's council publishes its process here: Bristol 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. Book a short call: we enter your menu with you and aim to have your ordering page live within 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. 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 Bristol location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Bristol pizza shop

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Bristol. No published average order value exists for Bristol pizza shops, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 25 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Say 25 orders a week, about 108 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £2,700 of sales a month. Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% when you use your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. On those 108 orders that is £378 plus £76 VAT, £454 in all, at 14%, or £810 plus £162 VAT, £972, at 30%.

With Chefzi the 108 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 Bristol, 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.
• Bristol council licensing page linked above: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/business/licences-and-permits/check-the-licensing-register (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.