Online ordering for pizza shops in Camden

Updated 13 November 2026. Source: the Food Standards Agency register, pulled on 13 November 2026. Coverage is the Camden council area; we do not name any business. Whole-area figures are on our Camden page.

In short: The FSA register lists 63 premises in Camden with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in NW1 and NW5. A Camden 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 63 premises in Camden with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 25 of them registered as takeaways and 38 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in NW1 (18), NW5 (9), NW3 (7), W1T (6). That is 2.6% of the area's 2,466 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.6% across the UK, so the word is less common here than in the UK as a whole.

Camden has fewer pizza-named premises than the national picture would suggest, which gives a kitchen with a well-run direct ordering page room to become the default choice on its own streets.

What the FSA register shows for Camden pizza names

This is a name-keyword count, not a census. It only finds premises whose registered name includes one of those words, so it misses pizza shops with other names, and it counts anything with the word in it, whatever it sells. We look at takeaway and sandwich shop premises and at restaurant, café and canteen premises only, and we do not name any business.

Of the 58 with a numeric rating, 31 (53%) are rated 5 and 2 (3%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 53.7% of all rated takeaways in Camden that hold a 5. A further 5 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Where they cluster

NW1 holds the most, 18 of the 63 (29%), and the premises sit across 8 postcode districts in all. A zone per district lets you charge a small fee for the close streets and a higher minimum for the outer ones, in Chefzi's delivery zones.

How Camden 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:

1 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Camden, and 4 have fewer, so the field here is among the bigger ones nearby.

Camden in the wider picture

Camden has 750 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,716 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 5 of 363 UK council areas, and 1 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Camden, 53.7% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 7.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Camden is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Camden pizza names in numbers

Set against population, Camden has 2.9 pizza-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 1.4 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 216,658). On the register, only 25 council areas have more of these names than Camden; within London it ranks 4th of 33.

The word is most concentrated in NW5, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in NW3 at 3%. Across the whole area the share is 2.6%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 46% inspected within a year (63 dated records) against 36% overall, with a median of 14 months since inspection against 19.

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.

How a direct ordering page helps here

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in NW1 and NW5, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Camden fits the spread.
• 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.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Camden: 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. We could not open Camden's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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. 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 Camden location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Camden pizza shop

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Camden. No published average order value exists for Camden pizza shops, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 40 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Suppose 40 orders a week (about 173 a month, £25 each, £4,325 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 173 orders cost £606 plus £121 VAT, £727 in all; at 30% they cost £1,298 plus £260 VAT, £1,557.

On Chefzi the same 173 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

• 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 Camden, 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.
• Camden council licensing page linked above: https://www.camden.gov.uk/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.