Online ordering for pizza shops in Lewisham

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

In short: Lewisham has 40 FSA-registered premises with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in SE6 and SE13. A Lewisham 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 40 premises in Lewisham with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 33 of them registered as takeaways and 7 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE6 (8), SE13 (8), SE14 (5), BR1 (5). That is 4.0% of the area's 1,003 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.

That makes Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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, 17 (45%) are rated 5 and 2 (5%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 49.1% of all rated takeaways in Lewisham 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

SE6 holds the most, 8 of the 40 (20%), 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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham, and 2 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized. Neighbouring set-ups: pizza shop ordering in Southwark and pizza shop ordering in Bromley.

Lewisham in the wider picture

Lewisham has 358 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 645 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 33 of 363 UK council areas, and 7 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Lewisham, 49.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Lewisham is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Lewisham pizza names in numbers

Set against population, Lewisham has 1.3 pizza-named premises for every 10,000 residents, close to the UK figure of 1.3 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 301,037). By raw count, Lewisham is 71st of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 18th of 33 in London.

BR1 is the district where the name is most common relative to local food premises (10%); SE13 is the lowest of these four at 4%. The area-wide share is 4.0%.

On freshness, 50% of the 40 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 47% across all 1,003 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Lewisham. The median time since inspection is 12 months for this list and 12 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 SE6 and SE13, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Lewisham fits the spread.
• Text your regulars with their permission (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro), so a quiet evening can be filled by one message.
• 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 Lewisham: 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 Lewisham's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

Our late night refreshment licence guide sets out the England and Wales rules. In Chefzi, collection hours and delivery hours are separate settings, so you can match whatever your licence allows. This is general information and 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. 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 Lewisham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Lewisham pizza shop

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Lewisham. We have no published average order value for Lewisham pizza shops, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

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%.

With Chefzi the 130 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 Lewisham, 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.
• Lewisham council licensing page linked above: https://lewisham.gov.uk/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.