Online ordering system for Derry and Strabane takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Derry and Strabane: 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 135 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 242 restaurant and café premises in Derry and Strabane (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Derry and Strabane

Of the 1,367 food businesses registered in Derry and Strabane, 135 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 242 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Derry and Strabane ranks 6th of the 11 councils the FSA lists in Northern Ireland.

Restaurants and cafés (242) outnumber takeaways (135), but takeaways are still about 10% of the 1,367 food premises of every kind that Derry and Strabane registers.

Per head of population that is 8.8 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (152,659 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to the UK figure of 9.1. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 51.1% of the 133 rated takeaway premises in Derry and Strabane hold a 5 and 1.5% sit at 0 to 2; the Northern Ireland average for a 5 is 60.4% (-9.3 points).

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 73 (54%) 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.

Local patterns in Derry and Strabane

• BT48 alone holds 42% of the takeaway premises in Derry and Strabane (57 of 135), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 75.9% hold a 5 against 51.1% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 58% of rated takeaways in BT47 hold a 5, against 22% in BT81.
• Derry and Strabane and Causeway Coast and Glens (28 miles apart) are close in size: 135 and 144 takeaway premises.

Where the takeaways are, and what that means for delivery zones

By postcode district, BT48 has the most takeaway premises in Derry and Strabane (57), followed by BT47 (39) and BT82 (20).

Food premises in Derry and Strabane are close together: 70% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.1 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.

Cuisines on the Derry and Strabane register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 3 cuisine words reach 10 premises in Derry and Strabane: 25 pizza, 14 Chinese-style, 11 fish and chip.

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.

Chinese or noodle is the cuisine word that sets Derry and Strabane apart. It appears in 15 of the area's 377 food premises (4.0%), where the UK rate is 2.5%, or 1.6 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 5 of the 15 are in BT48, a district with 57 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 15 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 13% hold a 5, against 51.1% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Derry and Strabane. If you run a Chinese takeaway here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 4 of 377 (1.1%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Derry and Strabane: the council's own page

Northern Ireland has no late night refreshment licence. Instead a council can make a closing order for particular premises, stopping the supply of meals and refreshments between midnight and 5am where it is needed to prevent neighbours being unreasonably disturbed (article 5 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985). Planning permission and food business registration still apply. The council's pages are here: Derry and Strabane council (checked 13 November 2026). Ask the council whether a closing order covers your premises.

Our late night refreshment licence guide covers England and Wales; the rules in Northern Ireland are different. 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.

Derry and Strabane and the areas around it

Main places in the Derry and Strabane council area include Derry and Strabane.

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

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