Online ordering for pizza shops in Cardiff

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

In short: The FSA register lists 51 premises in Cardiff with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in CF24 and CF10. A Cardiff 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 51 premises in Cardiff with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 30 of them registered as takeaways and 21 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in CF24 (19), CF10 (8), CF5 (7), CF11 (7). That is 4.3% of the area's 1,190 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.5% 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 Cardiff 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 43 with a numeric rating, 25 (58%) are rated 5 and 2 (5%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 50.0% of all rated takeaways in Cardiff that hold a 5. A further 8 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

CF24 holds the most, 19 of the 51 (37%), and the premises sit across 7 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 Cardiff 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:

Cardiff has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours. Neighbouring set-ups: pizza shop ordering in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Cardiff in the wider picture

Cardiff has 282 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 908 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 61 of 363 UK council areas, and 1 of 22 in Wales. Across all rated takeaways in Cardiff, 50.0% hold a 5 against 54.3% across Wales, and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.0%. Cardiff is part of South East Wales, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Cardiff pizza names in numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 381,516 residents, that works out at 1.3 pizza-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 1.3 across the UK, so Cardiff sits close to the national rate. On the register, only 42 council areas have more of these names than Cardiff; within Wales it ranks 1st of 22.

The word is most concentrated in CF5, where 7% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in CF10 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 4.3%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 51 premises on this list with an inspection date, 39% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 50% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 13 months against 12.

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 CF24 and CF10, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Cardiff 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.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Cardiff: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: Cardiff 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. 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. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
4. With their permission, tell regulars about the page by SMS or email (how, 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 Cardiff location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Cardiff pizza shop

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

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: 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 Cardiff, 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.
• Cardiff council licensing page linked above: https://www.srs.wales/en/Licensing.aspx (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.