Online ordering for pizza shops in Croydon

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

In short: The FSA register lists 62 premises in Croydon with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in CR0 and CR8. A Croydon 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 62 premises in Croydon with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 48 of them registered as takeaways and 14 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in CR0 (27), CR8 (7), CR2 (6), CR7 (6). That is 6.2% of the area's 1,004 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.6% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

That makes Croydon a place where a direct ordering page earns its keep: the same few streets hold a lot of pizza-named premises, so being easy to find and easy to order from is the whole game.

What the FSA register shows for Croydon 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 60 with a numeric rating, 33 (55%) are rated 5 and 4 (7%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 52.1% of all rated takeaways in Croydon that hold a 5. A further 2 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

CR0 holds the most, 27 of the 62 (44%), 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 Croydon 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:

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

Croydon in the wider picture

Croydon has 418 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 586 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 24 of 363 UK council areas, and 4 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Croydon, 52.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 8.5% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Croydon is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Croydon against the UK: the numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 410,085 residents, that works out at 1.5 pizza-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 1.4 across the UK, so Croydon sits close to the national rate. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Croydon comes 29th nationally and 7th of 33 within London.

CR8 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (10%); CR7 is the lowest of these four at 6%. The area-wide share is 6.2%.

On freshness, 60% of the 62 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 46% across all 1,004 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Croydon. The median time since inspection is 10 months for this list and 13 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.

How a direct ordering page helps here

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in CR0 and CR8, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Croydon 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.
• 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.
• 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 Croydon: 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. Croydon's council publishes its process here: Croydon council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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

A worked example for a Croydon pizza shop

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

Move 40 weekly orders (roughly 173 a month at £25, £4,325 of sales) from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link and the maths is this. On Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details), 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT, you would pay £727 at 14% (£606 plus £121 VAT) or £1,557 at 30% (£1,298 plus £260 VAT).

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 Croydon, 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.
• Croydon council licensing page linked above: https://www.croydon.gov.uk/business-licences-and-tenders/licences-permits-and-registrations/apply/alcohol-entertainment-food-licences/alcohol/make-minor-variation-premises-or-club-licence (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.