Online ordering system for Mid Devon takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Mid Devon: 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 46 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 142 restaurant and café premises in Mid Devon (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Mid Devon's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 763 food businesses of every kind in Mid Devon: 46 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 142 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and Mid Devon sits 23rd of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (142 against 46), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 85,593, Mid Devon has 5.4 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 44 takeaway premises with a published rating, 59.1% hold a 5 and 13.6% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-2.9 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Mid Devon is below its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 17 (37%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. The share rated 0 to 2 is higher than the England average (5.8%), so a visible good rating on your own site helps. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Mid Devon compared with elsewhere

• Mid Devon has the number 9 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 85% hold a 5 against 59.1% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 82% of rated takeaways in EX17 hold a 5, against 38% in EX15.
• Exeter, 12 miles away, has 85 takeaway premises against 46 in Mid Devon, so Mid Devon customers have fewer local rivals.
• EX16 alone holds 43% of the takeaway premises in Mid Devon (20 of 46), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Which kitchens are in Mid Devon

No single cuisine word (kebab, pizza, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, chicken, peri-peri, shawarma, fish and chip, burger) appears in 10 or more trading names in Mid Devon, so the market is a spread of independents rather than one dominant style. That favours a menu that is easy to find under its own name.

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.

Mid Devon has no standout cuisine word. The most common in trading names is pizza, at 6 of 188 food premises (3.2%), close to the UK's 4.6% (FSA, 13 November 2026). Nothing dominates, so a kitchen here competes on its own name and menu; a direct ordering page makes that name easy to find and easy to order from. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 2 of 188 (1.1%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Mid Devon are EX16 (20), EX15 (14), EX17 (11).

38% of premises in Mid Devon are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 76% within 10 miles; half are within 4.9 miles. Most kitchens will want two zones, a close one with a low minimum order and a wider one with a higher minimum and a delivery fee. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

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

Mid Devon and the areas around it

Main places in the Mid Devon council area include Tiverton, Crediton and Cullompton.

Part of Devon, with East Devon, Exeter, North Devon, Plymouth, South Hams and Teignbridge.

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

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Popular in the South West

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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.