Online ordering for pizza shops in Rotherham

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

In short: The FSA register lists 51 premises in Rotherham with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in S60 and S65. A Rotherham 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 51 premises in Rotherham with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 50 of them registered as takeaways and 1 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in S60 (11), S65 (9), S66 (9), S25 (5). That is 7.7% of the area's 662 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 Rotherham 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 Rotherham pizza names

Read this as a name-keyword count, not a census. A premises is counted only if its registered name contains one of the words, so pizza shops with other names are missed and any place using the word for something else is included. Only takeaway, sandwich shop, restaurant, café and canteen premises are counted, and no business is named.

Of the 46 with a numeric rating, 30 (65%) are rated 5 and 2 (4%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 74.1% of all rated takeaways in Rotherham that hold a 5. A further 5 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

S60 holds the most, 11 of the 51 (22%), 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 Rotherham 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 Rotherham, and 2 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized. Neighbouring set-ups: pizza shop ordering in Sheffield and pizza shop ordering in Barnsley.

Rotherham in the wider picture

Rotherham has 251 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 411 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 80 of 363 UK council areas, and 12 of 16 in Yorkshire and the Humber. Across all rated takeaways in Rotherham, 74.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 1.7% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Rotherham is part of South Yorkshire, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts. Places in the council area include Rotherham and Wickersley and Bramley, so a delivery zone set by postcode district can follow the towns a kitchen really serves.

Rotherham against the UK: the numbers

Set against population, Rotherham has 1.8 pizza-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 1.3 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 279,161). On the register, only 42 council areas have more of these names than Rotherham; within Yorkshire and the Humber it ranks 12th of 16.

The word is most concentrated in S65, where 10% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in S60 at 7%. Across the whole area the share is 7.7%.

On freshness, 43% of the 51 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 40% across all 662 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Rotherham. The median time since inspection is 14 months for this list and 16 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 S60 and S65, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Rotherham 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.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• 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).
• 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 Rotherham: 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. Rotherham's council publishes its process here: Rotherham 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. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each bag (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 Rotherham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Rotherham pizza shop

These are assumed numbers, not Rotherham data: with no published average order value for Rotherham pizza shops, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 25 orders a week. Use your own.

Suppose 25 orders a week (about 108 a month, £25 each, £2,700 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 108 orders cost £378 plus £76 VAT, £454 in all; at 30% they cost £810 plus £162 VAT, £972.

With Chefzi the 108 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 Rotherham, 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.
• Rotherham council licensing page linked above: https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/licensing-regulation/apply-alcohol-entertainment-licence/8 (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.