Online ordering system for Merthyr Tydfil takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Merthyr Tydfil: 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 80 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 102 restaurant and café premises in Merthyr Tydfil (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Merthyr Tydfil has

Merthyr Tydfil registers 586 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 80 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 102 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 22 councils the FSA lists in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil is number 19 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (102) outnumber takeaways (80), but takeaways are still about 14% of the 586 food premises of every kind that Merthyr Tydfil registers.

Takeaway density: 13.7 premises per 10,000 residents (population 58,362, ONS mid-2025 estimate), above 9.1 across the UK. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

77 takeaway premises in Merthyr Tydfil have a published rating. 32.5% of them hold a 5, against 54.3% across Wales (-21.8 points), and 5.2% are rated 0 to 2.

3 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 48 (60%) 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.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

the three with the most are CF47 (36), CF48 (28), CF46 (11).

87% of Merthyr Tydfil's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.8 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.

What stands out in Merthyr Tydfil

• CF47 alone holds 45% of the takeaway premises in Merthyr Tydfil (36 of 80), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Merthyr Tydfil has the number 9 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in South East Wales.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 49.5% hold a 5 against 32.5% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 39% of rated takeaways in CF48 hold a 5, against 18% in CF46.
• Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent (7 miles apart) are close in size: 80 and 92 takeaway premises.

The kitchens behind the names in Merthyr Tydfil

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Merthyr Tydfil has one word that reaches 10: 12 fish and chip.

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, Merthyr Tydfil stands out for kebab or doner: 8 premises, 4.4% of the 182 on the register, against 1.7% across the UK. 5 of the 8 are in CF47, a district with 36 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 8 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 0% hold a 5, against 32.5% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Merthyr Tydfil. A kebab 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. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 1 of 182 (0.5%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Merthyr Tydfil: 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 Merthyr Tydfil'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.

Merthyr Tydfil and the areas around it

Main places in the Merthyr Tydfil council area include Merthyr Tydfil.

Part of South East Wales, with Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Monmouthshire and Newport.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Fish and chips, 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.