Online ordering system for Eastleigh takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Eastleigh: 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 82 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 188 restaurant and café premises in Eastleigh (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Eastleigh has

Eastleigh registers 993 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 82 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 188 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Eastleigh is number 31 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (188 against 82), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 5.7 premises per 10,000 residents (population 143,710, 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

81 takeaway premises in Eastleigh have a published rating. 65.4% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+3.4 points), and 4.9% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Eastleigh is close to its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 45 (55%) 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.

What stands out in Eastleigh

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 81% of rated takeaways in SO53 hold a 5, against 55% in SO50.
• Southampton, 4 miles away, has 222 takeaway premises against 82 in Eastleigh, so Eastleigh customers have fewer local rivals.
• SO50 alone holds 40% of the takeaway premises in Eastleigh (33 of 82), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Eastleigh has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 13 council areas in Hampshire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 85.8% hold a 5 against 65.4% for takeaways.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Eastleigh has takeaways in 5 postcode districts, and the three with the most are SO50 (33), SO53 (17), SO30 (16).

Half of the food premises in Eastleigh are within 2 miles of the centre, 64% within 3 miles and 100% within 10. That suits a close zone with a low minimum order plus a wider zone 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Eastleigh

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Eastleigh has 4 words that reach 10: 12 pizza, 12 Indian-style, 11 Chinese-style and more.

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.

Indian or curry is the cuisine word that sets Eastleigh apart. It appears in 11 of the area's 270 food premises (4.1%), where the UK rate is 2.2%, or 1.9 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 5 of the 11 are in SO50, a district with 33 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 10 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 30% hold a 5, against 65.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Eastleigh. If you run an Indian restaurant here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 2 of 270 (0.7%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Eastleigh: 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 Eastleigh'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.

Eastleigh and the areas around it

Main places in the Eastleigh council area include Eastleigh (about 48,400 people in the 2021 built-up area, partly in this area) and Hedge End (about 23,200 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Hampshire, with Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Fareham, Gosport, Hart and Havant.

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

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