Online ordering system for Cotswold takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Cotswold: 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 43 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 296 restaurant and café premises in Cotswold (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Cotswold's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,110 food businesses of every kind in Cotswold: 43 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 296 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and Cotswold sits 25th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (296 against 43), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 91,563, Cotswold has 4.7 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 41 takeaway premises with a published rating, 87.8% hold a 5 and 0% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+25.8 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Cotswold is above its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 17 (40%) 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.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Cotswold are GL7 (23), GL54 (6), GL56 (4), out of 7 districts with at least one takeaway.

Cotswold is spread out: only 33% of premises are within 3 miles of the middle of the area, 53% within 10 and the furthest tenth are over 20.9 miles away. Rural and town-by-town delivery needs separate zones per town, and collection with a time slot often beats long delivery runs. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Cotswold compared with elsewhere

• Cotswold has the fewest takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in Gloucestershire.
• Swindon, 12 miles away, has 136 takeaway premises against 43 in Cotswold, so Cotswold customers have fewer local rivals.
• Cotswold leans towards restaurants and cafés: 6.9 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• GL7 alone holds 53% of the takeaway premises in Cotswold (23 of 43), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Which kitchens are in Cotswold

Looking at trading names, Cotswold has one cuisine word that appear in 10 or more premises: 10 pizza. 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.

Cotswold has no standout cuisine word. The most common in trading names is pizza, at 10 of 339 food premises (2.9%), close to the UK's 4.6% (FSA, 13 November 2026). Nothing dominates, so a kitchen here competes on its own name and menu; a direct ordering page makes that name easy to find and easy to order from. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 1 of 339 (0.3%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

Cotswold and the areas around it

Main places in the Cotswold council area include Cirencester, Tetbury and Moreton-in-Marsh.

Part of Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, South Gloucestershire, Stroud and Tewkesbury.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, 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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.