Online ordering system for Dundee takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Dundee: 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 203 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 288 restaurant and café premises in Dundee (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Dundee has

Dundee registers 1,411 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 203 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 288 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 32 councils the FSA lists in Scotland, Dundee is number 10 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (288) outnumber takeaways (203), but takeaways are still about 14% of the 1,411 food premises of every kind that Dundee registers.

Takeaway density: 13.7 premises per 10,000 residents (population 148,390, ONS mid-2025 estimate), above 9.1 across the UK. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Scotland uses the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS), which gives Pass or Improvement Required instead of a 0 to 5 score, and displaying the result is voluntary. Of 197 takeaway premises in Dundee with a result, 90.4% passed and 9.6% need improvement; the Pass share is above the Scotland average of 86.7%.

6 takeaway premises are awaiting inspection and 146 (72%) were inspected in the last 12 months. Because FHIS has only two outcomes, the way to stand out is to show your Pass certificate on your own ordering page. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Dundee has takeaways in 5 postcode districts, and the three with the most are DD4 (53), DD3 (53), DD1 (43).

Food premises in Dundee are close together: 89% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 0.8 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 Dundee

• Dundee has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in North East Scotland and Tayside.
• Dundee has 2.1 times as many takeaway premises as Angus (96), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.4 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Dundee, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• DD4 alone holds 26% of the takeaway premises in Dundee (53 of 203), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

The kitchens behind the names in Dundee

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Dundee has 3 words that reach 10: 19 Indian-style, 14 pizza, 14 Chinese-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, Dundee stands out for Indian or curry: 19 premises, 3.9% of the 491 on the register, against 2.2% across the UK. 9 of the 19 are in DD4, a district with 53 registered takeaways of every kind. An indian restaurant 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. Pizza names are rarer than average: 14 of 491 (2.9%, against 4.6% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Dundee: the council's own page

In Scotland, selling food or hot drink between 11pm and 5am needs a late hours catering licence from the council, under section 42 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, whether the food is eaten on the premises or taken away. Dundee's council licensing pages are here: Dundee council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

Our late night refreshment licence guide covers England and Wales; the rules in Scotland 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.

Dundee and the areas around it

Main places in the Dundee council area include Dundee.

Part of North East Scotland and Tayside, with Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Perth and Kinross.

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

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

All UK locations

Popular in Scotland

• Indian restaurant ordering in Edinburgh
• Indian restaurant ordering in Glasgow
• Pizza shop ordering in Edinburgh
• Kebab shop ordering in Glasgow
• Pizza shop ordering in Fife

All of Scotland

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.