Online ordering for pizza shops in Southwark

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

In short: The FSA register lists 55 premises in Southwark with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in SE1 and SE16. A Southwark 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 55 premises in Southwark with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 41 of them registered as takeaways and 14 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE1 (22), SE16 (12), SE22 (6), SE15 (6). That is 3.5% of the area's 1,586 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 4.6% across the UK, so the word is less common here than in the UK as a whole.

The word is less common here than nationally, so a pizza kitchen in Southwark may face fewer lookalikes on a delivery app than one in a bigger market, but customers still compare you with every other takeaway on the screen. Your own ordering page is the one place where no rival is listed beside you.

What the FSA register shows for Southwark 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 50 with a numeric rating, 32 (64%) are rated 5 and 2 (4%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 66.5% of all rated takeaways in Southwark 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.

Which postcode districts have the most

SE1 holds the most, 22 of the 55 (40%), 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 Southwark 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 Southwark, and 3 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized.

Southwark in the wider picture

Southwark has 620 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 966 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 9 of 363 UK council areas, and 2 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Southwark, 66.5% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 2.8% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Southwark is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Southwark pizza names in numbers

Set against population, Southwark has 1.8 pizza-named premises for every 10,000 residents, above the UK figure of 1.4 (ONS mid-2025 population estimate for the area: 312,366). On the register, only 38 council areas have more of these names than Southwark; within London it ranks 10th of 33.

The word is most concentrated in SE16, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in SE15 at 2%. Across the whole area the share is 3.5%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 55 premises on this list with an inspection date, 24% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 31% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 18 months against 17.

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 SE1 and SE16, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Southwark 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.
• 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.

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

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. 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. 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 Southwark location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Southwark pizza shop

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

Move 25 weekly orders (roughly 108 a month at £25, £2,700 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 £454 at 14% (£378 plus £76 VAT) or £972 at 30% (£810 plus £162 VAT).

On Chefzi those 108 orders cost no commission. The flat Plus plan, which includes card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location excluding VAT, however busy the month is. Payment-provider card fees are left out of both sides, and any orders that stay on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats still pay their commission.

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 Southwark, 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.