Online ordering for pizza shops in Lambeth

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

In short: Lambeth has 48 FSA-registered premises with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in SE27 and SW4. A Lambeth 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 48 premises in Lambeth with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 29 of them registered as takeaways and 19 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE27 (10), SW4 (9), SE11 (7), SW8 (5). That is 3.9% of the area's 1,236 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.

Customers who search for a pizza in Lambeth meet a crowded field. Your own ordering page gives them a direct route to your kitchen without a marketplace between you and the customer.

What the FSA register shows for Lambeth 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 45 with a numeric rating, 28 (62%) are rated 5 and 4 (9%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 51.4% of all rated takeaways in Lambeth that hold a 5. A further 3 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

The districts where they sit

SE27 holds the most, 10 of the 48 (21%), and the premises sit across 8 postcode districts in all. Set a delivery zone for each district you serve with its own fee, minimum order and time, so the busy streets near SE27 do not set the terms for everywhere else.

How Lambeth 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:

3 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Lambeth, and 2 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized. Neighbouring set-ups: pizza shop ordering in Southwark and pizza shop ordering in Westminster.

Lambeth in the wider picture

Lambeth has 406 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 830 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 27 of 363 UK council areas, and 6 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Lambeth, 51.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 8.7% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Lambeth is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Lambeth against the UK: the numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 314,298 residents, that works out at 1.5 pizza-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 1.3 across the UK, so Lambeth sits close to the national rate. On the register, only 51 council areas have more of these names than Lambeth; within London it ranks 13th of 33.

SE27 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (11%); SW8 is the lowest of these four at 5%. The area-wide share is 3.9%.

These premises are inspected about as recently as the area as a whole: 54% inspected within a year (48 dated records) against 54% overall, with a median of 11 months since inspection against 11.

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 Lambeth kitchens

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in SE27 and SW4, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Lambeth fits the spread.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).

Late-night hot food in Lambeth: 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. Lambeth's council publishes its process here: Lambeth 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. 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. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For more, see the pizza page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Lambeth location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Lambeth pizza shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Lambeth. We have no published average order value for Lambeth pizza shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 35 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Suppose 35 orders a week (about 152 a month, £25 each, £3,800 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 152 orders cost £532 plus £106 VAT, £638 in all; at 30% they cost £1,140 plus £228 VAT, £1,368.

With Chefzi the 152 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 Lambeth, 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.
• Lambeth council licensing page linked above: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Business-rates-services-and-licensing/Licensing-and-permits/Apply-change-or-pay-for-a-licence/pay-a-premises-licence-annual-fee (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.