Online ordering system for Mid and East Antrim takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Mid and East Antrim: 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 130 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 173 restaurant and café premises in Mid and East Antrim (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Mid and East Antrim

Of the 1,180 food businesses registered in Mid and East Antrim, 130 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 173 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Mid and East Antrim ranks 7th of the 11 councils the FSA lists in Northern Ireland.

Restaurants and cafés (173) outnumber takeaways (130), but takeaways are still about 11% of the 1,180 food premises of every kind that Mid and East Antrim registers.

Per head of population that is 9.3 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (139,964 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to the UK figure of 9.1. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 73% of the 126 rated takeaway premises in Mid and East Antrim hold a 5 and 1.6% sit at 0 to 2; the Northern Ireland average for a 5 is 60.4% (+12.6 points).

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 55 (42%) 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.

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

By postcode district, BT38 has the most takeaway premises in Mid and East Antrim (40), followed by BT42 (30) and BT43 (27).

Distances in Mid and East Antrim are long: 8% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 46% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 18.2 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.

Local patterns in Mid and East Antrim

• Mid and East Antrim and Antrim and Newtownabbey (14 miles apart) are close in size: 130 and 102 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.3 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Mid and East Antrim, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• BT38 alone holds 31% of the takeaway premises in Mid and East Antrim (40 of 130), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 91.6% hold a 5 against 73% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 90% of rated takeaways in BT42 hold a 5, against 55% in BT38.

Cuisines on the Mid and East Antrim register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), one cuisine word reaches 10 premises in Mid and East Antrim: 23 pizza.

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 names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Mid and East Antrim: 9 of the 303 food premises (3.0%), against 1.7% across the UK, about 1.7 times the national rate. 3 of the 9 are in BT40, a district with 23 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 8 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 62% hold a 5, against 73.0% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Mid and East Antrim. For a kebab shop in Mid and East Antrim, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 1 of 303 (0.3%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Mid and East Antrim: the council's own page

Northern Ireland has no late night refreshment licence. Instead a council can make a closing order for particular premises, stopping the supply of meals and refreshments between midnight and 5am where it is needed to prevent neighbours being unreasonably disturbed (article 5 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985). Planning permission and food business registration still apply. The council's pages are here: Mid and East Antrim council (checked 13 November 2026). Ask the council whether a closing order covers your premises.

Our late night refreshment licence guide covers England and Wales; the rules in Northern Ireland are different. 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.

Mid and East Antrim and the areas around it

Main places in the Mid and East Antrim council area include Carrickfergus, Larne and Ballymena.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in Northern Ireland

• Pizza shop ordering in Belfast
• Kebab shop ordering in Belfast
• Chicken shop ordering in Belfast
• Kebab shop ordering in Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon

All of Northern Ireland

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.