Online ordering system for Bath and North East Somerset takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Bath and North East Somerset: 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 115 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 414 restaurant and café premises in Bath and North East Somerset (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Bath and North East Somerset's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,841 food businesses of every kind in Bath and North East Somerset: 115 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 414 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and Bath and North East Somerset sits 13th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (414 against 115), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 200,898, Bath and North East Somerset has 5.7 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 112 takeaway premises with a published rating, 47.3% hold a 5 and 8.9% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-14.7 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Bath and North East Somerset is below its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 62 (54%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. The share rated 0 to 2 is higher than the England average (5.8%), so a visible good rating on your own site helps. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Where Bath and North East Somerset's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Bath and North East Somerset are BA1 (41), BA2 (33), BA3 (20), out of 6 districts with at least one takeaway.

75% of Bath and North East Somerset's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.5 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.

Bath and North East Somerset compared with elsewhere

• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 66.4% hold a 5 against 47.3% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 69% of rated takeaways in BS31 hold a 5, against 20% in BA3.
• Bristol, 11 miles away, has 427 takeaway premises against 115 in Bath and North East Somerset, so Bath and North East Somerset customers have fewer local rivals.
• Bath and North East Somerset leans towards restaurants and cafés: 3.6 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• BA1 alone holds 36% of the takeaway premises in Bath and North East Somerset (41 of 115), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Which kitchens are in Bath and North East Somerset

Looking at trading names, Bath and North East Somerset has 3 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 23 pizza, 12 Chinese-style, 10 Indian-style. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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.

Bath and North East Somerset has no standout cuisine word. The most common in trading names is pizza, at 23 of 529 food premises (4.3%), close to the UK's 4.6% (FSA, 13 November 2026). Nothing dominates, so a kitchen here competes on its own name and menu; a direct ordering page makes that name easy to find and easy to order from. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 3 of 529 (0.6%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Bath and North East Somerset: 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. Bath and North East Somerset's council publishes its process here: Bath and North East Somerset council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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.

Bath and North East Somerset and the areas around it

Main places in the Bath and North East Somerset council area include Bath (about 94,100 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Somerset, with North Somerset and Somerset.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Chinese takeaways, Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the South West

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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.