Online ordering system for Crawley takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Crawley: 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 67 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 179 restaurant and café premises in Crawley (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Crawley has

Crawley registers 974 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 67 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 179 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Crawley is number 43 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (179 against 67), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 5.4 premises per 10,000 residents (population 124,462, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 6.4 in the South East. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

67 takeaway premises in Crawley have a published rating. 73.1% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+11.1 points), and 1.5% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Crawley is above its region.

No takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection, and 40 (60%) 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Crawley

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Crawley has one word that reaches 10: 13 pizza.

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, kebab or doner names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Crawley: 8 of the 246 food premises (3.3%), against 1.7% across the UK, about 1.9 times the national rate. 5 of the 8 are in RH10, a district with 44 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 8 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 88% hold a 5, against 73.1% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Crawley. For a kebab shop in Crawley, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 3 of 246 (1.2%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

the three with the most are RH10 (44), RH11 (21), RH6 (1).

Food premises in Crawley are close together: 94% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1 miles). A single postcode-based delivery zone per kitchen works well, and a short collection time is the main selling point. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

What stands out in Crawley

• RH10 alone holds 66% of the takeaway premises in Crawley (44 of 67), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Crawley has the number 4 most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in West Sussex.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 92% hold a 5 against 73.1% for takeaways.
• Crawley and Reigate and Banstead (8 miles apart) are close in size: 67 and 89 takeaway premises.

Late-night hot food in Crawley: 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 Crawley'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.

Crawley and the areas around it

Main places in the Crawley council area include Crawley (about 120,600 people in the 2021 built-up area).

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

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.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.