Online ordering for pizza shops in Sheffield

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

In short: the register lists 106 premises in Sheffield with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 82 of them registered as takeaways and 24 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in S2 (16), S5 (14), S6 (11), S12 (8). That is 5.2% of the area's 2,052 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.6% across the UK, so the word is about as common here as 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 Sheffield 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 92 with a numeric rating, 60 (65%) are rated 5 and 1 (1%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a higher share than the 57.7% of all rated takeaways in Sheffield that hold a 5. A further 14 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

S2 holds the most, 16 of the 106 (15%), 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 Sheffield 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:

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

Sheffield in the wider picture

Sheffield has 611 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,441 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 10 of 363 UK council areas, and 3 of 16 in Yorkshire and the Humber. Across all rated takeaways in Sheffield, 57.7% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 2.9% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Sheffield is part of South Yorkshire, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts. Places in the council area include Sheffield and Dronfield, so a delivery zone set by postcode district can follow the towns a kitchen really serves.

Sheffield against the UK: the numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 1.8, against 1.4 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 579,517 for the council area. By raw count, Sheffield is 4th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 2nd of 16 in Yorkshire and the Humber.

The word is most concentrated in S12, where 14% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in S6 at 6%. Across the whole area the share is 5.2%.

On freshness, 28% of the 106 dated records were inspected in the last 12 months, compared with 29% across all 2,052 dated takeaway and restaurant premises in Sheffield. The median time since inspection is 17 months for this list and 17 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.

What this means for your online ordering

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in S2 and S5, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Sheffield 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.
• 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.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.

Late-night hot food in Sheffield: 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. We could not open Sheffield's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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. 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. 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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield, 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.
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.