Online ordering system for Hastings takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Hastings: 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 108 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 261 restaurant and café premises in Hastings (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Hastings has

Hastings registers 909 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 108 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 261 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Hastings is number 17 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (261 against 108), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 11.9 premises per 10,000 residents (population 90,855, ONS mid-2025 estimate), above 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

106 takeaway premises in Hastings have a published rating. 71.7% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+9.7 points), and 6.6% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Hastings is above its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 43 (40%) 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 Hastings

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Hastings has 3 words that reach 10: 19 pizza, 14 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, kebab or doner is the cuisine word that stands out most in Hastings, a little above the national rate: 8 of the 369 food premises (2.2%), against 1.7% across the UK. 3 of the 8 are in TN37, a district with 36 registered takeaways of every kind. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 3 of 369 (0.8%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Hastings has takeaways in 4 postcode districts, and the three with the most are TN34 (50), TN37 (36), TN38 (12).

Food premises in Hastings are close together: 100% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 0.7 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.

What stands out in Hastings

• TN34 alone holds 46% of the takeaway premises in Hastings (50 of 108), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Hastings has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 6 council areas in East Sussex.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 92.7% hold a 5 against 71.7% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 82% of rated takeaways in TN38 hold a 5, against 64% in TN37.
• Hastings has 2.1 times as many takeaway premises as Rother (51), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.

Late-night hot food in Hastings: 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. Hastings's council publishes its process here: Hastings 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.

Hastings and the areas around it

Main places in the Hastings council area include Hastings (about 91,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of East Sussex, with Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother and Wealden.

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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.