Online ordering system for Charnwood takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Charnwood: 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 146 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 287 restaurant and café premises in Charnwood (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Charnwood's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,493 food businesses of every kind in Charnwood: 146 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 287 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The East Midlands has 35 councils on the FSA list, and Charnwood sits 7th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (287) outnumber takeaways (146), but takeaways are still about 10% of the 1,493 food premises of every kind that Charnwood registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 189,718, Charnwood has 7.7 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 9.1 in the East Midlands. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 139 takeaway premises with a published rating, 66.9% hold a 5 and 6.5% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+4.9 points). In the East Midlands as a whole, 69.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Charnwood is below its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 95 (65%) 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.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Charnwood are LE11 (66), LE12 (32), LE7 (25), out of 4 districts with at least one takeaway.

55% of premises in Charnwood are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 100% within 10 miles; half are within 2 miles. Most kitchens will want two zones, a close one with a low minimum order and a wider one with a higher minimum and a delivery fee. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Charnwood compared with elsewhere

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 84% of rated takeaways in LE7 hold a 5, against 60% in LE11.
• Charnwood has 1.8 times as many takeaway premises as North West Leicestershire (83), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• LE11 alone holds 45% of the takeaway premises in Charnwood (66 of 146), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Charnwood has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 8 council areas in Leicestershire.

Which kitchens are in Charnwood

Looking at trading names, Charnwood has 4 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 30 pizza, 14 Chinese-style, 12 Indian-style and more. 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.

Pizza edges ahead of the national rate in Charnwood: 30 of 433 food premises (6.9%), against 4.6% across the UK (FSA, 13 November 2026). 13 of the 30 are in LE11, a district with 66 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 28 rated pizza-named premises, 57% hold a 5, against 66.9% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Charnwood. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 4 of 433 (0.9%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

Charnwood and the areas around it

Main places in the Charnwood council area include Loughborough (about 64,900 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Leicestershire, with Blaby, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicester, Melton and North West Leicestershire.

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

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

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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.