Online ordering system for Gateshead takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Gateshead: 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 221 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 331 restaurant and café premises in Gateshead (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Gateshead

Of the 1,647 food businesses registered in Gateshead, 221 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 331 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Gateshead ranks 5th of the 13 councils the FSA lists in the North East.

Restaurants and cafés (331) outnumber takeaways (221), but takeaways are still about 13% of the 1,647 food premises of every kind that Gateshead registers.

Per head of population that is 10.9 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (202,509 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), above the UK figure of 9.1 and 10.3 in the North East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 64.8% of the 199 rated takeaway premises in Gateshead hold a 5 and 1% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+2.8 points). In the North East as a whole, 66.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Gateshead is close to its region.

22 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 91 (41%) 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.

Cuisines on the Gateshead register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 5 cuisine words reach 10 premises in Gateshead: 32 pizza, 22 fish and chip, 20 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.

Chinese or noodle edges ahead of the national rate in Gateshead: 20 of 552 food premises (3.6%), against 2.5% across the UK (FSA, 13 November 2026). 6 of the 20 are in NE11, a district with 34 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 16 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 56% hold a 5, against 64.8% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Gateshead. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 4 of 552 (0.7%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Where the takeaways are, and what that means for delivery zones

By postcode district, NE8 has the most takeaway premises in Gateshead (43), followed by NE10 (35) and NE11 (34).

72% of Gateshead's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 2.1 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Local patterns in Gateshead

• Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne (2 miles apart) are close in size: 221 and 281 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.5 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Gateshead, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• Gateshead has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Tyne and Wear.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 87.1% hold a 5 against 64.8% for takeaways.
• 10% of takeaway premises (22) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

Late-night hot food in Gateshead: 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 Gateshead'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.

Gateshead and the areas around it

Main places in the Gateshead council area include Gateshead (about 115,300 people in the 2021 built-up area, partly in this area).

Part of Tyne and Wear, with Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland.

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, 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.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.