Online ordering for Cambridge takeaways and restaurants
Take Cambridge orders on your own site, with 0% commission ever.
First month free. Live in 24–48 hours. No credit card required.
- 0% commission ever
- No setup fee
- Month to month
- 45-day refund
- Your own branded app (Android & iOS)
- Read owner reviews
Everything in one place
Your own ordering site
0% commission ever
Till and kitchen screen
The product
Orders from across Cambridge
Website, app, till and kitchen screen, all from one menu.
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One plan. 0% commission ever.
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£39/mo
billed annually, or £49 if billed monthly
First month free. Live in 24–48 hours. No credit card required.
Get started free- ✓ Food ordering website
- ✓ Online ordering, unlimited orders
- ✓ Your own branded app (Android & iOS)
- ✓ EPOS till and kitchen screen
- ✓ SMS and email marketing (GDPR compliant)
- ✓ Loyalty and rewards for customers
- ✓ QR table ordering and table booking requests
- ✓ AI website and app builder
- ✓ AI support
- ✓ Free menu setup and switch-over
- ✓ Monthly, cancel any time
Per location, ex VAT. Everything included.
What owners say
★★★★★
“Chefzi has made online ordering much easier for our café. Having our own website and a simple way to manage orders saves us time and gives our customers a convenient way to order directly.”
★★★★★
“The best thing about Chefzi is the 0% commission ever. We keep the money from our orders without losing a percentage to another platform. The monthly subscription makes budgeting much simpler.”
★★★★★
“We wanted a professional online ordering website without spending a fortune. Chefzi gave us a straightforward solution that looks good, is easy to use and helps us take direct orders.”
★★★★★
“Managing orders is much easier with Chefzi. Everything is designed around what a small takeaway needs, and receiving orders through the app makes our daily work more organised.”
★★★★★
“I love how simple Chefzi makes online ordering for our customers. They can browse our menu and place orders online, while we have a much easier way to manage everything.”
★★★★★
“Commission-free ordering was the main reason we looked at Chefzi. It gives us more control over our direct orders and a practical way to grow our online presence without unnecessary costs.”
Cambridge
Questions
Can a Mill Road kitchen run collection only, with no delivery at all?
Yes. Collection works on its own: the customer picks a time at checkout and the ticket reaches the kitchen in the Chefzi order app. Delivery zones, fees and minimum orders only come into play if you also deliver, so a small counter can start with collection and add delivery when it has the drivers.
The lunch queue is the problem at our station-side cafe. Can people order before they arrive?
Yes. Customers can order for a later slot inside the opening hours and cut-offs you set, so the 12:30 rush arrives as pre-orders with the bags already labelled. The order shows up in the same app you use for everything else.
Why does CB1 hold so many of the city's takeaways?
CB1 covers the station side and the city end of Mill Road, which is the tightest cluster of small kitchens in Cambridge: 41 of the 87 on the register. That is a count of premises registered with the Food Standards Agency, not a measure of how busy any one of them is.
What does Chefzi cost on the paid tiers?
£39 a month billed annually (£49 if billed monthly), everything included, per location and ex VAT. There is no setup fee and no commission on the order. The plans are set out on the pricing page.
More detail
Cambridge City has 87 takeaways against about 500 restaurants and cafés, with CB1 home to nearly half the takeaways.
Food Standards Agency figures for Cambridge City
These counts are from the Food Standards Agency open data, pulled on 22 October 2026. “Takeaway” means the FSA business type “Takeaway/sandwich shop”. Cuisine rows are a name-keyword estimate, not a census. How ratings work, including appeals and re-inspections, is a separate guide.
| Measure | Cambridge City |
|---|---|
| Takeaway / sandwich shops | 87 |
| Restaurants, cafés and canteens | 501 |
| All registered food businesses | 1,490 |
| Takeaways rated 5 | 59.5% of rated businesses |
| Takeaways rated 4 or 5 | 84.5% of rated businesses |
| Takeaways rated 0, 1 or 2 | 4.8% of rated businesses |
| Mean rating of rated takeaways | 4.39 |
| Takeaways awaiting inspection | 3 |
| Takeaways inspected in the last 12 months | 32 |
| Postcode districts with a takeaway | 5 |
| England benchmark | 61.8% rated 5 · 51,837 takeaways |
| FHRS rating | Takeaways |
|---|---|
| 5 | 50 |
| 4 | 21 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 2 | 4 |
| Awaiting inspection | 3 |
| Postcode district | Takeaways | Share |
|---|---|---|
| CB1 | 41 | 47.1% |
| CB2 | 18 | 20.7% |
| CB4 | 15 | 17.2% |
| CB5 | 8 | 9.2% |
| CB3 | 1 | 1.1% |
Source: Food Standards Agency, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Extract date 22 October 2026.
Chefzi is an online ordering system for Cambridge restaurants and local takeaways, with 0% commission ever. The ordering page is part of your own site; see restaurant website design. The product itself is the online ordering system for UK restaurants. There are set-ups for each kind of shop, such as kebab shop ordering system and ordering for chicken shops.
# Online ordering for Cambridge takeaways and restaurants
Short answer: Cambridge City has 87 takeaways against about 500 restaurants and cafés, with CB1 (Mill Road and the station side) home to nearly half the takeaways. Chefzi has 0% commission ever, no setup fee and free menu migration. Chefzi is £39 a month per location billed annually (£49 if billed monthly), ex VAT, with everything included. Current offer: One plan at £39 a month per location, ex VAT: ordering website, your own branded app (Android & iOS), EPOS till, kitchen screen, SMS and email marketing (GDPR compliant) and loyalty rewards. 0% commission ever, no setup fee, free migration and one month free.
Why it matters in Cambridge
Mill Road kitchens and city-centre cafés can take collection, delivery and table bookings from their own site, and send regulars offers by email without paying a percentage per order.
Where Cambridge takeaways are
By postcode district, the FSA register puts Cambridge takeaways in CB1 (41), CB2 (18), CB4 (15), CB5 (8), CB3 (1). Set delivery zones by the districts you actually drive, and charge more where the run is longer.
How Chefzi helps Cambridge food businesses
Mill Road is the spine of Cambridge's takeaway trade. From the city end, through Petersfield and over the railway bridge into Romsey, the independent kitchens sit within a few minutes' walk of one another. The CB1 station side around Station Square, the Cherry Hinton Road parade, and the small shops on Burleigh Street and Fitzroy Street fill in the rest of the map. A kitchen with its own regulars does not need a marketplace standing in the middle of that.
- An ordering page that belongs to you. A mobile-first site built from the menu you already sell, on your own domain.
- The ticket lands in the order app. Orders arrive in the Chefzi app on a phone or tablet you already have, with a prep time to accept or a reason to reject.
- Zones drawn around the Cambridge run. A Mill Road kitchen and a Cherry Hinton one cover different ground, so delivery zones, fees and minimum orders are set per area. Collection is a separate switch, which suits the counters that would rather people walked in.
- Tables on the same site. Table reservations for the sit-down side and QR table ordering for guests already seated use the same menu and the same app as the takeaway orders.
Coming from GloriaFood before 30 April 2027? See moving from GloriaFood.
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Sources
- Food Standards Agency, food hygiene rating open data API, Cambridge City (authority "Cambridge City"), extract 22 Oct 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. England benchmark from the 19 to 20 Oct 2026 national extract used across Chefzi location pages.
- Cambridge City Council: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/
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