Online ordering for pizza shops in Liverpool

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

In short: the register lists 106 premises in Liverpool with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 99 of them registered as takeaways and 7 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in L13 (13), L15 (12), L9 (12), L4 (10). That is 6.0% of the area's 1,761 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.

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 Liverpool 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 70 with a numeric rating, 31 (44%) are rated 5 and 8 (11%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 41.7% of all rated takeaways in Liverpool that hold a 5. A further 36 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

L13 holds the most, 13 of the 106 (12%), and the premises sit across 8 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 Liverpool 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:

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

Liverpool in the wider picture

Liverpool has 733 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,028 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 6 of 363 UK council areas, and 2 of 35 in North West. Across all rated takeaways in Liverpool, 41.7% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 13.7% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Liverpool is part of Merseyside, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Liverpool pizza names in numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 507,915 residents, that works out at 2.1 pizza-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 1.4 across the UK, so Liverpool sits above the national rate. On the register, only 3 council areas have more of these names than Liverpool; within the North West it ranks 1st of 35.

Across the area 6.0% of takeaway and restaurant premises carry one of these words. In L9 that rises to 15%, while in L4 it is 9%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 29% inspected within a year (106 dated records) against 20% overall, with a median of 40 months since inspection against 48.

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 L13 and L15, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Liverpool 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.
• 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 Liverpool: what to check

If you sell hot food or drink after 11pm and before 5am, the Licensing Act 2003 treats it as late night refreshment, so you normally need the council's licence. Liverpool's council publishes its process here: Liverpool 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. Book a short call: we enter your menu with you and aim to have your ordering page live within 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. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. Once customers agree to hear from you, send them the link (SMS and email marketing, 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 Liverpool location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

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 Liverpool, 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.
• Liverpool council licensing page linked above: https://www.liverpool.gov.uk/business/licences-and-permits/entertainment-and-alcohol-licences/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.