Online ordering system for Dartford takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Dartford: 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 96 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 178 restaurant and café premises in Dartford (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Dartford has

Dartford registers 1,085 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 96 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 178 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Dartford is number 23 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (178) outnumber takeaways (96), but takeaways are still about 9% of the 1,085 food premises of every kind that Dartford registers.

Takeaway density: 7.6 premises per 10,000 residents (population 126,297, 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

93 takeaway premises in Dartford have a published rating. 53.8% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (-8.2 points), and 4.3% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Dartford is below its region.

3 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 46 (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.

The kitchens behind the names in Dartford

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Dartford has 3 words that reach 10: 13 fish and chip, 11 pizza, 11 chicken.

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, Dartford stands out for chicken or peri-peri: 10 premises, 3.6% of the 274 on the register, against 1.8% across the UK. 5 of the 10 are in DA1, a district with 53 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 10 rated chicken or peri-peri-named premises, 40% hold a 5, against 53.8% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Dartford. 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. These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Dartford has takeaways in 7 postcode districts, and the three with the most are DA1 (53), DA9 (12), DA2 (9).

89% of Dartford'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.

What stands out in Dartford

• DA1 alone holds 55% of the takeaway premises in Dartford (53 of 96), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Dartford has the number 7 most takeaway premises of the 13 council areas in Kent.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 71.4% hold a 5 against 53.8% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 75% of rated takeaways in DA9 hold a 5, against 33% in DA2.
• Bexley, 5 miles away, has 225 takeaway premises against 96 in Dartford, so Dartford customers have fewer local rivals.

Late-night hot food in Dartford: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: Dartford council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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.

Dartford and the areas around it

Main places in the Dartford council area include Dartford (about 69,100 people in the 2021 built-up area, partly in this area).

Part of Kent, with Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe, Gravesham and Maidstone.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Fish and chips, Pizza, Chicken shops, 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.