Online ordering system for Brentwood takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Brentwood: 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 50 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 133 restaurant and café premises in Brentwood (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Brentwood

Of the 766 food businesses registered in Brentwood, 50 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 133 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Brentwood ranks 39th of the 45 councils the FSA lists in East of England.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (133 against 50), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 6.2 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (80,104 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 7.2 in East of England. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 63.3% of the 49 rated takeaway premises in Brentwood hold a 5 and 6.1% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62%. In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Brentwood is below its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 29 (58%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. A 5 is not the default here, so a kitchen that holds one can say so on its own ordering page. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Local patterns in Brentwood

• Brentwood has the number 12 most takeaway premises of the 14 council areas in Essex.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 75% of rated takeaways in CM13 hold a 5, against 56% in CM14.
• Havering, 6 miles away, has 176 takeaway premises against 50 in Brentwood, so Brentwood customers have fewer local rivals.
• CM15 alone holds 36% of the takeaway premises in Brentwood (18 of 50), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Where the takeaways are, and what that means for delivery zones

By postcode district, CM15 has the most takeaway premises in Brentwood (18), followed by CM14 (18) and CM13 (12).

84% of Brentwood's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.8 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.

Cuisines on the Brentwood register

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 Brentwood, 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 Brentwood: 8 of the 183 food premises (4.4%), against 2.2% across the UK, about 2.0 times the national rate. 3 of the 8 are in CM14, a district with 18 registered takeaways of every kind. For an Indian restaurant in Brentwood, 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 183 (0.0%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Brentwood: 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. Brentwood's council publishes its process here: Brentwood 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.

Brentwood and the areas around it

Main places in the Brentwood council area include Brentwood (about 55,300 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Essex, with Basildon, Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester and Epping Forest.

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.