Online ordering system for Forest of Dean takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Forest of Dean: 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 59 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 237 restaurant and café premises in Forest of Dean (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Forest of Dean has

Forest of Dean registers 820 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 59 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 237 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West, Forest of Dean is number 20 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (237 against 59), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 6.5 premises per 10,000 residents (population 90,157, 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

58 takeaway premises in Forest of Dean have a published rating. 87.9% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+25.9 points), and 0% are rated 0 to 2. In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Forest of Dean is above its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 34 (58%) 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Forest of Dean

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Forest of Dean has 2 words that reach 10: 10 pizza, 10 Indian-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.

Indian or curry is the cuisine word that sets Forest of Dean apart. It appears in 10 of the area's 296 food premises (3.4%), where the UK rate is 2.2%, or 1.6 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 4 of the 10 are in GL14, a district with 16 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 10 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 70% hold a 5, against 87.9% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Forest of Dean. 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: 1 of 296 (0.3%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Forest of Dean has takeaways in 6 postcode districts, and the three with the most are GL14 (16), GL15 (14), GL16 (13).

Distances in Forest of Dean are long: 19% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 81% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 10.2 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.

What stands out in Forest of Dean

• Gloucester, 13 miles away, has 105 takeaway premises against 59 in Forest of Dean, so Forest of Dean customers have fewer local rivals.
• Forest of Dean leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.0 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• GL14 alone holds 27% of the takeaway premises in Forest of Dean (16 of 59), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Forest of Dean has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in Gloucestershire.

Late-night hot food in Forest of Dean: 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. Forest of Dean's council publishes its process here: Forest of Dean 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.

Forest of Dean and the areas around it

Main places in the Forest of Dean council area include Cinderford, Coleford and Lydney.

Part of Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham, Cotswold, Gloucester, South Gloucestershire, Stroud and Tewkesbury.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Indian restaurants, 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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.