Online ordering system for East Devon takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in East Devon: 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 93 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 339 restaurant and café premises in East Devon (pulled 13 November 2026).

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East Devon's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,537 food businesses of every kind in East Devon: 93 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 339 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and East Devon sits 16th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (339 against 93), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 159,637, East Devon has 5.8 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 89 takeaway premises with a published rating, 75.3% hold a 5 and 3.4% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+13.3 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so East Devon is close to its region.

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 41 (44%) 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.

Which kitchens are in East Devon

Looking at trading names, East Devon has 3 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 11 pizza, 10 kebab, 10 fish and chip. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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.

Kebab or doner edges ahead of the national rate in East Devon: 10 of 432 food premises (2.3%), against 1.7% across the UK (FSA, 13 November 2026). 3 of the 10 are in EX8, a district with 28 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 10 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 50% hold a 5, against 75.3% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in East Devon. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 3 of 432 (0.7%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Where East Devon's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in East Devon are EX8 (28), EX10 (14), EX14 (13), out of 9 districts with at least one takeaway.

Distances in East Devon are long: 14% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 87% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 11.8 miles out. Set a separate zone for each town, and offer timed collection where delivery runs would be long. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

East Devon compared with elsewhere

• East Devon leans towards restaurants and cafés: 3.6 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• EX8 alone holds 30% of the takeaway premises in East Devon (28 of 93), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• East Devon has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 100% of rated takeaways in EX12 hold a 5, against 61% in EX8.
• East Devon and Exeter (11 miles apart) are close in size: 93 and 85 takeaway premises.

Late-night hot food in East Devon: 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 East Devon'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.

East Devon and the areas around it

Main places in the East Devon council area include Exmouth (about 35,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Devon, with Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, Plymouth, South Hams and Teignbridge.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Kebab shops, 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.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.