Online ordering system for Cherwell takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Cherwell: 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 121 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 286 restaurant and café premises in Cherwell (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Cherwell's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,351 food businesses of every kind in Cherwell: 121 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 286 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South East has 64 councils on the FSA list, and Cherwell sits 11th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (286 against 121), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 172,178, Cherwell has 7.0 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 113 takeaway premises with a published rating, 65.5% hold a 5 and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+3.5 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Cherwell is close to its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 61 (50%) 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.

Which kitchens are in Cherwell

Looking at trading names, Cherwell has 2 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 21 pizza, 12 fish and chip. 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, no cuisine word stands out in Cherwell: the most common is pizza, with 21 of the 407 food premises (5.2%), against 4.6% across the UK, close to the national rate. Without one dominant style, customers search for a kitchen by name, so a page of your own that comes up under that name is worth more than a category listing. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 5 of 407 (1.2%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Cherwell are OX16 (61), OX26 (35), OX5 (14), out of 6 districts with at least one takeaway.

Distances in Cherwell are long: 7% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 58% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 12.4 miles out. Set a separate zone for each town, and offer timed collection where delivery runs would be long. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Cherwell compared with elsewhere

• OX16 alone holds 50% of the takeaway premises in Cherwell (61 of 121), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Cherwell has the most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Oxfordshire.
• Cherwell has 2.1 times as many takeaway premises as West Oxfordshire (58), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.

Late-night hot food in Cherwell: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: Cherwell council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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.

Cherwell and the areas around it

Main places in the Cherwell council area include Banbury (about 52,000 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Bicester (about 37,800 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Oxfordshire, with Oxford, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and West Oxfordshire.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, 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.