Online ordering for pizza shops in Sefton

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

In short: The FSA register lists 46 premises in Sefton with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in L20 and L21. A Sefton 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 46 premises in Sefton with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 40 of them registered as takeaways and 6 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in L20 (11), L21 (8), PR8 (7), PR9 (6). That is 5.7% of the area's 811 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.

Customers who search for a pizza in Sefton 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 Sefton 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 42 with a numeric rating, 24 (57%) are rated 5 and 2 (5%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 67.9% of all rated takeaways in Sefton 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.

The districts where they sit

L20 holds the most, 11 of the 46 (24%), 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 L20 do not set the terms for everywhere else.

How Sefton 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:

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

Sefton in the wider picture

Sefton has 268 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 543 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 69 of 363 UK council areas, and 14 of 35 in North West. Across all rated takeaways in Sefton, 67.9% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 1.6% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Sefton is part of Merseyside, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts. Places in the council area include Southport, Formby and Maghull, so a delivery zone set by postcode district can follow the towns a kitchen really serves.

Sefton pizza names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 1.6, against 1.3 for the UK as a whole, which is close to the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 287,583 for the council area. By raw count, Sefton is 55th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 7th of 35 in the North West.

The word is most concentrated in L21, where 15% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in PR8 at 4%. Across the whole area the share is 5.7%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 46 premises on this list with an inspection date, 52% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 48% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 11 months against 12.

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 Sefton kitchens

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in L20 and L21, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Sefton fits the spread.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open at the counter, or the other way round.
• 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.

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

A worked example for a Sefton pizza shop

These are assumed numbers, not Sefton data: with no published average order value for Sefton pizza shops, the example takes £25 (the commission calculator default) and 40 orders a week. Use your own.

Move 40 weekly orders (roughly 173 a month at £25, £4,325 of sales) from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link and the maths is this. On Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details), 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT, you would pay £727 at 14% (£606 plus £121 VAT) or £1,557 at 30% (£1,298 plus £260 VAT).

On Chefzi the same 173 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: 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 Sefton, 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.
• Sefton council licensing page linked above: https://www.sefton.gov.uk/business/licensing-registration/entertainment-alcohol-and-late-night-refreshment/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.