Online ordering for pizza shops in Wigan

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

In short: The FSA register lists 67 premises in Wigan with pizza or pizzeria in the name, most in WN1 and WN7. A Wigan 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 67 premises in Wigan with "pizza" or "pizzeria" in the business name, 61 of them registered as takeaways and 6 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in WN1 (11), WN7 (11), M29 (8), WN3 (6). That is 5.1% of the area's 1,305 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.

That makes Wigan 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 Wigan 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 60 with a numeric rating, 14 (23%) are rated 5 and 13 (22%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is close to the 27.4% of all rated takeaways in Wigan that hold a 5. A further 7 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

WN1 holds the most, 11 of the 67 (16%), 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 Wigan 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:

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

Wigan in the wider picture

Wigan has 370 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 935 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 29 of 363 UK council areas, and 4 of 35 in North West. Across all rated takeaways in Wigan, 27.4% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 14.9% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Wigan is part of Greater Manchester, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Wigan pizza names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 1.9, against 1.4 for the UK as a whole, which is above the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 347,089 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Wigan comes 20th nationally and 3rd of 35 within the North West.

The word is most concentrated in M29, where 8% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in WN7 at 5%. Across the whole area the share is 5.1%.

These premises are more recently inspected than the area as a whole: 55% inspected within a year (67 dated records) against 42% overall, with a median of 11 months since inspection against 14.

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 WN1 and WN7, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Wigan fits the spread.
• 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.
• Size, base and toppings in one flow. Size and crust can be required choices and toppings a pick-several choice with a surcharge for each, so the ticket shows exactly what to make.
• Tablet offline? The Chefzi Orders app rings until someone accepts or rejects. If the device is offline, Chefzi texts the restaurant and then calls.
• 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.

Late-night hot food in Wigan: 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. We could not open Wigan'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. Put the link on your Google Business Profile (how), and print a QR code for each bag (QR kit).
4. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For more, see the pizza page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Wigan location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Wigan pizza shop

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

Say 40 orders a week, about 173 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £4,325 of sales a month. Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% when you use your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. On those 173 orders that is £606 plus £121 VAT, £727 in all, at 14%, or £1,298 plus £260 VAT, £1,557, at 30%.

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 stays yours: Chefzi has no courier integrations, so you use your own drivers. There is no kiosk and no CRM, and a pre-order lead time applies to the whole location rather than to a single dish. Orders that still arrive through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; Chefzi's job is to help you move regulars to your own page.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Wigan, 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.
• Wigan council licensing page linked above: https://www.wigan.gov.uk/index.aspx (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.