Online ordering system for Dacorum takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Dacorum: 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 113 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 247 restaurant and café premises in Dacorum (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Dacorum has

Dacorum registers 1,276 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 113 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 247 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 45 councils the FSA lists in East of England, Dacorum is number 18 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (247) outnumber takeaways (113), but takeaways are still about 9% of the 1,276 food premises of every kind that Dacorum registers.

Takeaway density: 7.0 premises per 10,000 residents (population 162,316, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 7.2 in East of England. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

107 takeaway premises in Dacorum have a published rating. 58.9% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (-3.1 points), and 3.7% are rated 0 to 2. In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Dacorum is below its region.

6 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 70 (62%) 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.

What stands out in Dacorum

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 70% of rated takeaways in HP3 hold a 5, against 50% in HP1.
• Dacorum and St Albans (6 miles apart) are close in size: 113 and 86 takeaway premises.
• HP1 alone holds 33% of the takeaway premises in Dacorum (37 of 113), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Dacorum has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Hertfordshire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 74.2% hold a 5 against 58.9% for takeaways.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Dacorum has takeaways in 7 postcode districts, and the three with the most are HP1 (37), HP3 (24), HP2 (20).

65% of premises in Dacorum are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 100% within 10 miles; half are within 1.5 miles. Most kitchens will want two zones, a close one with a low minimum order and a wider one 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Dacorum

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Dacorum has 3 words that reach 10: 22 pizza, 14 fish and chip, 12 Indian-style.

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.

Reading trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Dacorum stands out for chicken or peri-peri: 12 premises, 3.3% of the 360 on the register, against 1.8% across the UK. 7 of the 12 are in HP1, a district with 37 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 11 rated chicken or peri-peri-named premises, 36% hold a 5, against 58.9% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Dacorum. A chicken shop here shares its streets with more lookalikes than the national average would predict, so a direct ordering page and a clear link on your Google Business Profile do more work. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 7 of 360 (1.9%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Dacorum: 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 Dacorum'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.

Dacorum and the areas around it

Main places in the Dacorum council area include Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring.

Part of Hertfordshire, with Broxbourne, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St Albans and Stevenage.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Fish and chips, Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the East of England

• Chicken shop ordering in Luton
• Indian restaurant ordering in Luton
• Chicken shop ordering in Central Bedfordshire
• Kebab shop ordering in Great Yarmouth
• Indian restaurant ordering in Southend-on-Sea

All of the East of England

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.