Online ordering system for Exeter takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Exeter: 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 85 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 361 restaurant and café premises in Exeter (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Exeter has

Exeter registers 1,107 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 85 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 361 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West, Exeter is number 18 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (361 against 85), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 6.2 premises per 10,000 residents (population 137,894, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 6.9 in the South West. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

83 takeaway premises in Exeter have a published rating. 73.5% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+11.5 points), and 1.2% are rated 0 to 2. In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Exeter is close to its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 30 (35%) 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.

What stands out in Exeter

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 80% of rated takeaways in EX4 hold a 5, against 42% in EX1.
• Exeter and East Devon (11 miles apart) are close in size: 85 and 93 takeaway premises.
• Exeter leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.2 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• EX4 alone holds 65% of the takeaway premises in Exeter (55 of 85), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Exeter has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Exeter has takeaways in 4 postcode districts, and the three with the most are EX4 (55), EX2 (16), EX1 (13).

Food premises in Exeter are close together: 96% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 0.5 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Exeter

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Exeter has 3 words that reach 10: 14 pizza, 11 fish and chip, 10 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.

Chinese or noodle edges ahead of the national rate in Exeter: 14 of 446 food premises (3.1%), against 2.5% across the UK (FSA, 13 November 2026). 10 of the 14 are in EX4, a district with 55 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 14 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 86% hold a 5, against 73.5% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Exeter. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 5 of 446 (1.1%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Exeter: 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 Exeter'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.

Exeter and the areas around it

Main places in the Exeter council area include Exeter (about 126,200 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Devon, with East Devon, 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, Fish and chips, Chinese takeaways, 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.