Online ordering system for Havering takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Havering: 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 176 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 756 restaurant and café premises in Havering (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Havering's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 2,027 food businesses of every kind in Havering: 176 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 756 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. London has 33 councils on the FSA list, and Havering sits 28th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (756 against 176), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 280,787, Havering has 6.3 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 10.3 in London. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 166 takeaway premises with a published rating, 52.4% hold a 5 and 6% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-9.6 points). In London as a whole, 56.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Havering is below its region.

9 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 101 (57%) 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.

Which kitchens are in Havering

Looking at trading names, Havering has 7 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 26 pizza, 25 fish and chip, 24 kebab and more. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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.

Reading trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Havering stands out for chicken or peri-peri: 29 premises, 3.1% of the 932 on the register, against 1.8% across the UK. 9 of the 29 are in RM1, a district with 30 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 29 rated chicken or peri-peri-named premises, 45% hold a 5, against 52.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Havering. A chicken shop here shares its streets with more lookalikes than the national average would predict, so a direct ordering page and a clear link on your Google Business Profile do more work. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 13 of 932 (1.4%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Havering compared with elsewhere

• Havering and Barking and Dagenham (4 miles apart) are close in size: 176 and 227 takeaway premises.
• Havering leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.3 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 71.3% hold a 5 against 52.4% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 62% of rated takeaways in RM14 hold a 5, against 43% in RM3.

Where Havering's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Havering are RM1 (30), RM12 (26), RM13 (25), out of 11 districts with at least one takeaway.

88% of Havering's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 1.6 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.

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

Havering and the areas around it

Main places in the Havering council area include Romford, Hornchurch and Upminster.

Part of Greater London, with Camden, Southwark, Brent, Croydon, Newham and Lambeth.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Fish and chips, Kebab shops, Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

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Popular in London

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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.