Online ordering system for East Hertfordshire takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in East Hertfordshire: 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 109 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 294 restaurant and café premises in East Hertfordshire (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants East Hertfordshire has

East Hertfordshire registers 1,436 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 109 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 294 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 45 councils the FSA lists in East of England, East Hertfordshire is number 20 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (294 against 109), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 6.9 premises per 10,000 residents (population 158,033, 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

96 takeaway premises in East Hertfordshire have a published rating. 68.8% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+6.8 points), and 7.3% are rated 0 to 2. In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so East Hertfordshire is close to its region.

13 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 21 (19%) 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.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

East Hertfordshire has takeaways in 8 postcode districts, and the three with the most are CM23 (38), SG12 (27), SG14 (23).

44% of premises in East Hertfordshire are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 99% within 10 miles; half are within 5.2 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.

What stands out in East Hertfordshire

• CM23 alone holds 35% of the takeaway premises in East Hertfordshire (38 of 109), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• East Hertfordshire has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Hertfordshire.
• 12% of takeaway premises (13) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• East Hertfordshire has 2.1 times as many takeaway premises as Harlow (51), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.

The kitchens behind the names in East Hertfordshire

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), East Hertfordshire has 3 words that reach 10: 18 pizza, 11 kebab, 11 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, kebab or doner names are the most distinctive cuisine word in East Hertfordshire: 11 of the 403 food premises (2.7%), against 1.7% across the UK, about 1.6 times the national rate. 4 of the 11 are in SG12, a district with 27 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 10 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 30% hold a 5, against 68.8% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in East Hertfordshire. For a kebab shop in East Hertfordshire, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 7 of 403 (1.7%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in East Hertfordshire: 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. East Hertfordshire's council publishes its process here: East Hertfordshire council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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 Hertfordshire and the areas around it

Main places in the East Hertfordshire council area include Bishop's Stortford (about 40,900 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Hertford (about 28,800 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Hertfordshire, with Broxbourne, Dacorum, 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, Kebab shops, Chinese takeaways, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

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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.