Online ordering system for Adur takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Adur: your own ordering site and branded Android app (iOS coming soon), 0% commission, plans from £9 a month billed yearly, first month free with no card, month to month with no contract. The FSA register lists 58 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 78 restaurant and café premises in Adur (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Adur's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 462 food businesses of every kind in Adur: 58 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 78 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South East has 64 councils on the FSA list, and Adur sits 50th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (78) outnumber takeaways (58), but takeaways are still about 13% of the 462 food premises of every kind that Adur registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 64,802, Adur has 9.0 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, close to the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 57 takeaway premises with a published rating, 84.2% hold a 5 and 0% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+22.2 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Adur is above its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 22 (38%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. With so many 5s, a 4 or below stands out to a customer scrolling through options, so show your rating and fix anything that holds it down. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Which kitchens are in Adur

No single cuisine word (kebab, pizza, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, chicken, peri-peri, shawarma, fish and chip, burger) appears in 10 or more trading names in Adur, so the market is a spread of independents rather than one dominant style. That favours a menu that is easy to find under its own name.

Counts are premises, takeaway plus restaurant and café, whose registered trading name contains the word. A name without the word is not counted, so treat them as a floor.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Indian or curry names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Adur: 6 of the 136 food premises (4.4%), against 2.2% across the UK, about 2.0 times the national rate. 3 of the 6 are in BN43, a district with 20 registered takeaways of every kind. For an Indian restaurant in Adur, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 0 of 136 (0.0%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Where Adur's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Adur are BN15 (31), BN43 (20), BN42 (7).

99% of Adur's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 1.4 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Adur compared with elsewhere

• Unusually, takeaways in Adur rate as well as restaurants and cafés on hygiene: 84.2% hold a 5 against 81.6% for restaurants and cafés.
• Worthing, 5 miles away, has 101 takeaway premises against 58 in Adur, so Adur customers have fewer local rivals.
• This is a small market, 136 takeaway, restaurant and café premises in all, so a single well-run ordering page can reach most local customers.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.3 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Adur, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• BN15 alone holds 53% of the takeaway premises in Adur (31 of 58), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Late-night hot food in Adur: the council's own page

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. Start from the council's licensing section: Adur council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

The general rules, the 11pm to 5am window and what to ask are in the late night refreshment licence guide. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately, so ordering hours can follow whatever your licence conditions say. This is general information, not legal advice.

Adur and the areas around it

Main places in the Adur council area include Brighton and Hove (about 277,100 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Shoreham-by-Sea (about 23,700 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of West Sussex, with Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Worthing.

Nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises (distance between centres):

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Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0, pulled 13 November 2026. Takeaway/sandwich shop and restaurant/café/canteen business types.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.