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Online ordering for Chinese takeaways with 100+ dish menus
Put a 150-dish Chinese menu online with numbered dishes, set meals for two or four and banquet choices. 0% commission, no setup fee, 3 months free.
Rice and noodles in takeaway bowls. Unsplash.
A long numbered menu
Put the printed number in the dish name. There is no separate number field.
Set meals
A meal for two lands as one choice, with the rice or chips included as you specify.
Sides that change the ticket
Salt and pepper, curry sauce and extra rice are modifiers, not a note the pass might miss.
Specials
When a dish is finished, mark it sold out. There is no switch to hide a category.
Most Chinese takeaways have the longest menu on the high street. Fifteen sections, 120 to 200 numbered dishes, three sizes of chips, set meals for one, two and four, and a banquet that changes the price per head. Long phone calls and misheard numbers are where orders go wrong.
Chefzi puts that whole menu on your own ordering website, in the same numbered order as your printed menu, with 0% commission and no setup fee. Customers pick from it on their phone, the order rings on your Android kitchen app, and you accept it with a ready time.
What the FSA register says about Chinese takeaways
Across the 19 council areas we've pulled from the Food Standards Agency register (extract 19 Oct 2026), at least 718 takeaways have a Chinese name. That's the third biggest group we can identify by name, after pizza and fish and chips. The biggest clusters are in Glasgow (83), Leeds (80), Birmingham (71) and Bradford (50). These are estimates from business names only. More than half of all takeaways don't have a cuisine in their name, so the real totals are higher.
What that means for you: in most towns you're one of several Chinese takeaways within a short drive. A customer who can see your full menu, your hygiene rating and an exact ready time on their phone has a reason to pick you instead of the one with a printed leaflet.
Getting a numbered menu online
Keep the numbers. Put each dish's number at the front of its name. Customers who have ordered "number 47 and a 62" for ten years will search by number.
Use your printed sections. Soups, starters, chef's specials, chicken, beef, pork, king prawn, duck, vegetarian, chow mein, foo yung, curry, sweet and sour, rice, chips, extras, set meals and drinks. Online sections work best in exactly the order customers already know.
One dish, one entry. Chicken, beef and king prawn versions of the same sauce can each be their own numbered dish, as on paper. Don't add a protein choice unless your menu already works that way.
Rice and chips upgrades are options. "Swap boiled rice for egg fried rice +£1.00" belongs on the dish, so the kitchen and the price are right without a note.
Set meals are single items. A "Set Meal B for 2" is one item at one price, with required choices only where you allow swaps. The ticket lists every course, so packing is quick.
Banquets priced per person. Price the banquet per head and say "minimum 2 people" in the description, so a party of five simply orders quantity five.
Moving from GloriaFood or a PDF? You don't need to retype 180 dishes. See how to move your menu without retyping it.
Peak times: Friday, Saturday and Chinese New Year
Chinese takeaways have a short, sharp window. Most of the week's orders land between about 5:30pm and 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and Chinese New Year can feel like Christmas Eve.
- Give an honest ready time. When you accept an order in the app, you set the time. On a busy Saturday, 45 minutes is better than a promise of 20 and a cold call later.
- Delivery off, collection on. If your drivers are all out, turn delivery off and keep collection orders coming. Collection and delivery hours are set separately anyway.
- Pre-orders for big nights. Let customers place orders earlier in the day for a set collection time, so Chinese New Year banquets don't all arrive at 7pm.
- Holiday closures. Set a holiday closure window from the dashboard and online ordering closes for collection and delivery together.
Delivery around your area
Set delivery zones by distance, each with its own fee and minimum order. Many Chinese takeaways use a higher minimum for the outer zone, because set meals for two are the typical basket. Cash on delivery and collection is offered, so customers who prefer to pay the driver still can.
Allergens: soy sauce isn't just soya
Soy sauce usually contains wheat as well as soya, and oyster sauce comes from molluscs. Prawn crackers, sesame prawn toast, satay (peanut) and egg-fried rice cover four more of the 14 regulated allergens. Put allergen information on each dish and make it clear how customers can contact you before ordering. That protects you and the customer.
Restaurant as well as takeaway?
If you have tables, QR table ordering lets diners scan the code on their table and order from the same menu, with orders going to the same kitchen app.
What Chefzi costs a Chinese takeaway
- No setup fee.
- 0% commission on every order, so you keep the full price of a £38 set meal for four.
- 3 months free.
- Then £19 a month for cash or no-card payments, or £29 a month with online card payments through Stripe (standard Stripe fees apply), per location, excluding VAT.
- Use your own domain, for example goldendragon-takeaway.co.uk.
Chefzi doesn't do an EPOS till, a self-order kiosk, a branded app-store app, loyalty schemes or courier integrations. If you need those, use a specialist alongside Chefzi.
Sources
Accessed 19 October 2026.
- Source: Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating open data, 19 council-area extracts pulled 19 Oct 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Cuisine counts are name-based estimates.
All cuisines
Takeaways
Your own site and a kitchen app for the Friday rush.
Pizzerias
Sizes and toppings on the ticket, not in a note.
Indian restaurants
A long menu, with heat, rice and breads on the ticket.
Bangladeshi restaurants
Numbers in the dish name, with heat and breads on the ticket.
Cafés and bakeries
Requested collection times for coffee, lunch and cakes.
Fish and chips
Requested collection times and a kitchen app for Friday.
Kebab shops
Doner, grill and sauces on a ticket the pass can read.
Burger restaurants
Sizes, sauces and meals, with required choices when you need them.
Chicken shops
Portions and heat on the ticket, for shops that fry or grill.
Thai restaurants
Heat, rice and noodles as choices, when you offer them.
Sushi restaurants
Sets and pieces as items. No roll builder.
Italian restaurants
Shapes and sizes on the ticket, not in a note.
Turkish grills
Shish, doner and sauces, with late collection hours.
Caribbean kitchens
Your dish names, with sides and notice for larger orders.
Lebanese restaurants
Mezze and grills, with sauces as choices on the ticket.
Dessert shops
Requested collection times for cakes, with sizes as options.
Sandwich shops
Required bread, multi-select fillings, and a collection time.
The full toolkit
See how chinese takeaways run on Chefzi.
We load dishes like yours and ring the kitchen app. There is no online signup.
Chinese takeaways
Questions from chinese takeaways.
Can I keep the dish numbers from my printed menu?
Yes. Put the number at the start of each dish name, for example '47. Chicken in black bean sauce'. Regulars who order by number on the phone find the same dish online straight away.
How do I set up a set meal for two or four?
Make the set meal one item with a fixed price and add a required choice for each course where customers can swap, such as soup, main or rice. The kitchen sees the whole set together on one ticket.
Can customers choose egg fried rice instead of boiled rice?
Yes. Add rice as an option on the dish or set meal, with the price difference attached, so the swap is charged automatically.
What about MSG and allergens like peanuts, sesame and soya?
Peanuts, sesame, soya, crustaceans, molluscs, fish, gluten (in soy sauce) and egg are all among the 14 regulated allergens and turn up often in Chinese cooking. Show allergen information on each dish and tell customers how to contact you about allergies before ordering.
What does it cost?
There's no setup fee and no commission. The first 3 months are free, then it's £19 a month for cash or no-card payments, or £29 a month with online card payments through Stripe, per location, excluding VAT.
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