Online ordering system for Chichester takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Chichester: 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 65 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 273 restaurant and café premises in Chichester (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Chichester

Of the 1,453 food businesses registered in Chichester, 65 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 273 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Chichester ranks 46th of the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (273 against 65), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 5.0 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (130,224 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 84.4% of the 64 rated takeaway premises in Chichester hold a 5 and 0% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+22.4 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Chichester is above its region.

No takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection, and 38 (58%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. With so many 5s, a 4 or below stands out to a customer scrolling through options, so show your rating and fix anything that holds it down. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Local patterns in Chichester

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 96% of rated takeaways in PO20 hold a 5, against 78% in PO19.
• Arun, 9 miles away, has 122 takeaway premises against 65 in Chichester, so Chichester customers have fewer local rivals.
• Chichester leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.2 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• PO20 alone holds 38% of the takeaway premises in Chichester (25 of 65), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Chichester has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in West Sussex.

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

By postcode district, PO20 has the most takeaway premises in Chichester (25), followed by PO19 (24) and GU29 (4).

Half of the food premises in Chichester are within 2.7 miles of the centre, 51% within 3 miles and 85% within 10. That suits a close zone with a low minimum order plus a wider zone 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.

Cuisines on the Chichester 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 Chichester, 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.

Among trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Indian or curry is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Chichester: 9 premises, 2.7% against 2.2%. 4 of the 9 are in PO19, a district with 24 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 9 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 78% hold a 5, against 84.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Chichester. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 0 of 338 (0.0%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Chichester: 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. We could not open Chichester's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

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.

Chichester and the areas around it

Main places in the Chichester council area include Chichester (about 31,700 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of West Sussex, with Adur, Arun, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex and Worthing.

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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.