Online ordering for pizza shops in Derby

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

In short: Derby has 42 FSA-registered premises with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in DE1 and DE24. A Derby pizza shop can take direct orders on its own Chefzi page: plans run from £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), commission is 0% ever, and the first month is free with no card.

The register lists 42 premises in Derby with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 39 of them registered as takeaways and 3 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in DE1 (11), DE24 (10), DE22 (9), DE23 (7). That is 6.6% of the area's 635 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.5% across the UK, so the word is more common here than in the UK as a whole.

That makes Derby 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 Derby 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 38 with a numeric rating, 23 (61%) are rated 5 and 1 (3%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 50.4% of all rated takeaways in Derby that hold a 5. A further 4 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

DE1 holds the most, 11 of the 42 (26%), and the premises sit across 6 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 Derby 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:

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

Derby in the wider picture

Derby has 297 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 338 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 54 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 35 in East Midlands. Across all rated takeaways in Derby, 50.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 7.4% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Derby is part of Derbyshire, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

How common pizza names are in Derby

Per 10,000 residents the count is 1.5, against 1.3 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 275,344 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Derby comes 64th nationally and 5th of 35 within the East Midlands.

Across the area 6.6% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In DE22 that rises to 12%, while in DE1 it is 5%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 40% inspected within a year (42 dated records) against 29% overall, with a median of 17 months since inspection against 18.

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 DE1 and DE24, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Derby fits the spread.
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open at the counter, or the other way round.
• Pause ordering when the kitchen is flat out, and mark an item out of stock when it runs out, so nobody orders what you cannot make.
• 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.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Derby: 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. Derby's council publishes its process here: Derby 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. 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. 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 Derby location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Derby pizza shop

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Derby. No published average order value exists for Derby pizza shops, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Say 30 orders a week, about 130 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £3,250 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 130 orders that is £455 plus £91 VAT, £546 in all, at 14%, or £975 plus £195 VAT, £1,170, at 30%.

On Chefzi the same 130 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 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 Derby City, 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.
• Derby council licensing page linked above: https://www.derby.gov.uk/licensing/alcohol-licences/premises-licences/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.