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Takeaway ordering for Birmingham restaurants, including a long balti menu.

Birmingham’s independent food trade is not one cuisine and not one street. Balti houses around Ladypool Road and Stoney Lane sit alongside city-centre kitchens, chicken and pizza shops, and dessert places that do most of their trade after dark. The ordering page has to cope with a long menu on a phone, and the kitchen has to hear the ticket.

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Food Standards Agency figures for Birmingham

These counts are from the Food Standards Agency open data, pulled on 19 October 2026. “Takeaway” means the FSA business type “Takeaway/sandwich shop”. Cuisine rows are a name-keyword estimate, not a census, and 52% of takeaway names were not classified.

Measure	Birmingham
Takeaway / sandwich shops	986
Restaurants, cafés and canteens	2,572
All registered food businesses	10,291
Takeaways rated 5	43.4% of rated businesses
Takeaways rated 4 or 5	64.5% of rated businesses
Takeaways rated 0, 1 or 2	15.1% of rated businesses
Mean rating of rated takeaways	3.83
Takeaways awaiting inspection	101
Takeaways inspected in the last 12 months	470
Postcode districts with a takeaway	45
Median miles from the takeaway centre of this register	3
Takeaways within 3 miles of that centre	50%
England benchmark	61.9% rated 5 · 51,838 takeaways
West Midlands benchmark	57.6% rated 5 · 5,311 takeaways

FHRS rating	Takeaways
5	384
4	187
3	180
2	69
1	44
0	21
Awaiting inspection	101

Postcode district	Takeaways	Share
B19	61	6.2%
B8	51	5.2%
B11	48	4.9%
B23	41	4.2%
B5	39	4%
B44	37	3.8%
B31	37	3.8%
B21	35	3.5%

Cuisine estimate from business names

Name keyword	Takeaways
Unclassified	511
Pizza	106
Fish and chips	100
Chinese	71
Chicken	55
Indian or Bangladeshi	40
Café or bakery	39
Kebab	30
Caribbean or African	19
Thai or other Asian	9
Burger	6

Among West Midlands authorities with 50+ takeaways, ranked by takeaway pct_rated_5. Rank 28 of 29.

Source: Food Standards Agency, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Extract date 19 October 2026. The council food team page is Birmingham.

Areas kitchens in Birmingham usually split

Ladypool Road and Stoney Lane
Birmingham city centre
Digbeth
Neighbourhood takeaways

A long menu still has to be obvious on a phone

A balti or grill menu carries sizes, heat, breads, rice and the extras that change the price. If those choices are a typed note, the pass guesses. Chefzi puts the choices on the item, so the ticket shows what was ordered. Categories stay easy to reach while the customer scrolls, which matters when the menu is closer to a printed book than to a dozen marketplace tiles. The same system runs a short chicken or pizza menu. Nothing is locked to one cuisine. A dish you only cook on some nights is marked sold out on the others. There is no switch to hide a whole category.

Price the drive you already do

Some Birmingham kitchens deliver a tight area around the shop. Others are used to longer runs across the city. Draw the areas, or set them by distance or postcode, each with a fee, a minimum and a time. Collection stays available for people who would rather pick up. Chefzi does not send its own drivers. After three free months the software is £19 a month for cash or no-card payments, or £29 a month with online card payments through Stripe per location, excluding VAT, whether Friday is quiet or the shop is queued out of the door. There is no commission on the order and no setup fee.

Dessert, pizza and mixed shops use the same checkout

A dessert shop’s problem is not a balti house’s problem. The orders are later, the items are smaller, and collection is often the whole business. Pizza needs sizes and toppings. A mixed takeaway needs both a grill section and a dessert section without making the customer start again. You organise the categories the way the printed menu already does. Promo codes, if you want a direct-order offer, are switched on from the dashboard rather than printed into the price of every dish.

The Google profile should land on you

“Near me” searches in Birmingham already end on a marketplace if that is the only order link on the profile. Add the page you own. The website is generated from the menu, then you can change the words and the pictures. If GloriaFood is the button today, send the export, the screenshots or the public link and the rebuild is included. Do that before 30 April 2027. We are not GloriaFood and not Oracle. The old button and the new one can run together until you have seen a real order on the tablet.

A note for kitchens in Birmingham

Ladypool Road and Stoney Lane are where the balti trade sits. A kitchen there still sets its own zone, because the ring road is not one delivery.

Balti extras on the ticket

Rice, naan, heat and add-ons are choices, not a note.

Your drivers

Zones follow the roads you already use.

A link on Google

The ordering URL can sit on the profile next to the marketplace links.

Cuisines in Birmingham

Takeaways Pizzerias Indian restaurants Bangladeshi restaurants Cafés and bakeries Fish and chips Kebab shops Chinese takeaways Burger restaurants Chicken shops Thai restaurants Sushi restaurants Italian restaurants Turkish grills Caribbean kitchens Lebanese restaurants Dessert shops Sandwich shops

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Questions from Birmingham kitchens.

Is this only for balti houses?

No. Pizza, chicken, dessert, Chinese and mixed takeaways in Birmingham use the same system. The menu is yours.

Is there a Birmingham setup fee?

No. The menu move is included, including a move off GloriaFood before 30 April 2027.

Do you take a cut on a busy Friday?

No. The monthly fee does not change with the number of orders. Card fees stay with your payment provider.

Bring Birmingham orders onto your own site.

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 card processing fees apply. No setup fee. We move the menu.

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