Online ordering system for Chorley takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Chorley: 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 128 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 142 restaurant and café premises in Chorley (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Chorley's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,008 food businesses of every kind in Chorley: 128 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 142 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The North West has 35 councils on the FSA list, and Chorley sits 25th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (142) outnumber takeaways (128), but takeaways are still about 13% of the 1,008 food premises of every kind that Chorley registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 121,814, Chorley has 10.5 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, above the UK rate of 9.1 and 11.1 in the North West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 119 takeaway premises with a published rating, 69.7% hold a 5 and 3.4% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+7.7 points). In the North West as a whole, 54.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Chorley is above its region.

9 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 62 (48%) 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 Chorley's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Chorley are PR7 (82), PR6 (31), BL6 (5), out of 7 districts with at least one takeaway.

75% of Chorley's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 1.2 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.

Chorley compared with elsewhere

• PR7 alone holds 64% of the takeaway premises in Chorley (82 of 128), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Chorley has the number 6 most takeaway premises of the 14 council areas in Lancashire.
• Chorley and South Ribble (6 miles apart) are close in size: 128 and 112 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.1 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Chorley, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Which kitchens are in Chorley

Looking at trading names, Chorley has 2 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 12 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, chicken or peri-peri is the cuisine word that stands out most in Chorley, a little above the national rate: 6 of the 270 food premises (2.2%), against 1.8% across the UK. 3 of the 6 are in PR7, a district with 82 registered takeaways of every kind. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 4 of 270 (1.5%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

Chorley and the areas around it

Main places in the Chorley council area include Chorley (about 39,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Lancashire, with Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Fylde, Hyndburn and Lancaster.

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.