Online ordering system for Mid Sussex takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Mid Sussex: 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 83 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 287 restaurant and café premises in Mid Sussex (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Mid Sussex

Of the 1,368 food businesses registered in Mid Sussex, 83 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 287 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Mid Sussex ranks 28th of the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (287 against 83), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 5.1 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (163,566 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 59% of the 83 rated takeaway premises in Mid Sussex hold a 5 and 8.4% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (-3.0 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Mid Sussex is below its region.

No takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection, and 51 (61%) 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.

Cuisines on the Mid Sussex register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 3 cuisine words reach 10 premises in Mid Sussex: 16 fish and chip, 15 pizza, 12 Indian-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.

Among trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Indian or curry is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Mid Sussex: 11 premises, 3.0% against 2.2%. 4 of the 11 are in RH15, a district with 27 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 11 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 36% hold a 5, against 59.0% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Mid Sussex. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 4 of 370 (1.1%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Local patterns in Mid Sussex

• Mid Sussex has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in West Sussex.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 80.1% hold a 5 against 59% for takeaways.
• Mid Sussex and Crawley (9 miles apart) are close in size: 83 and 67 takeaway premises.
• Mid Sussex leans towards restaurants and cafés: 3.5 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• RH15 alone holds 33% of the takeaway premises in Mid Sussex (27 of 83), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

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

By postcode district, RH15 has the most takeaway premises in Mid Sussex (27), followed by RH19 (22) and RH16 (15).

Distances in Mid Sussex are long: 27% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 98% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 9.6 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.

Late-night hot food in Mid Sussex: 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 Sussex's council publishes its process here: Mid Sussex 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 Sussex and the areas around it

Main places in the Mid Sussex council area include Haywards Heath (about 40,200 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Burgess Hill (about 33,400 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of West Sussex, with Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham and Worthing.

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

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