Online ordering system for North Devon takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in North 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 79 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 352 restaurant and café premises in North Devon (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for North Devon

Of the 1,503 food businesses registered in North Devon, 79 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 352 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, North Devon ranks 19th of the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (352 against 79), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 7.8 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (101,281 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 70.8% of the 72 rated takeaway premises in North Devon hold a 5 and 11.1% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+8.8 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so North Devon is below its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 33 (42%) 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 North Devon register

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 North 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, no cuisine word stands out in North Devon: the most common is pizza, with 9 of the 431 food premises (2.1%), against 4.6% across the UK, close to the national rate. Without one dominant style, customers search for a kitchen by name, so a page of your own that comes up under that name is worth more than a category listing. Pizza names are rarer than average: 9 of 431 (2.1%, against 4.6% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

By postcode district, EX34 has the most takeaway premises in North Devon (21), followed by EX31 (17) and EX32 (15).

Distances in North Devon are long: 34% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 79% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 13.5 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 North Devon

• North Devon has 1.6 times as many takeaway premises as Torridge (50), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• North Devon leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.5 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• EX34 alone holds 27% of the takeaway premises in North Devon (21 of 79), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• North Devon has the number 6 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.
• 9% of takeaway premises (7) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

Late-night hot food in North 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. We could not open North Devon'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.

North Devon and the areas around it

Main places in the North Devon council area include Barnstaple (about 31,300 people in the 2021 built-up area).

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

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

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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.