Online ordering system for North Northamptonshire takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in North Northamptonshire: 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 289 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 392 restaurant and café premises in North Northamptonshire (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants North Northamptonshire has

North Northamptonshire registers 3,094 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 289 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 392 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 35 councils the FSA lists in the East Midlands, North Northamptonshire is number 4 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (392) outnumber takeaways (289), but takeaways are still about 9% of the 3,094 food premises of every kind that North Northamptonshire registers.

Takeaway density: 7.6 premises per 10,000 residents (population 379,569, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 9.1 in the East Midlands. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

267 takeaway premises in North Northamptonshire have a published rating. 69.7% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+7.7 points), and 3.4% are rated 0 to 2. In the East Midlands as a whole, 69.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so North Northamptonshire is close to its region.

22 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 99 (34%) 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

North Northamptonshire has takeaways in 11 postcode districts, and the three with the most are NN8 (61), NN16 (51), NN17 (34).

North Northamptonshire is spread out: only 25% of premises are within 3 miles of the middle of the area, 96% within 10 and the furthest tenth are over 8 miles away. Rural and town-by-town delivery needs separate zones per town, and collection with a time slot often beats long delivery runs. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

What stands out in North Northamptonshire

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 96% of rated takeaways in NN15 hold a 5, against 55% in NN8.
• North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire (13 miles apart) are close in size: 289 and 249 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.4 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in North Northamptonshire, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• 8% of takeaway premises (22) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

The kitchens behind the names in North Northamptonshire

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), North Northamptonshire has 6 words that reach 10: 46 pizza, 41 fish and chip, 31 kebab and more.

Local set-ups: Kebab shop ordering in North Northamptonshire, Chicken shop ordering in North Northamptonshire, Pizza shop ordering in North Northamptonshire.

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.

Kebab or doner is the cuisine word that sets North Northamptonshire apart. It appears in 31 of the area's 681 food premises (4.6%), where the UK rate is 1.7%, or 2.6 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 5 of the 31 are in NN10, a district with 31 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 27 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 59% hold a 5, against 69.7% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in North Northamptonshire. If you run a kebab shop here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 12 of 681 (1.8%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in North Northamptonshire: 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. North Northamptonshire's council publishes its process here: North Northamptonshire 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.

North Northamptonshire and the areas around it

Main places in the North Northamptonshire council area include Corby (about 68,200 people in the 2021 built-up area), Kettering (about 63,200 people in the 2021 built-up area), Wellingborough (about 54,400 people in the 2021 built-up area), Rushden (about 31,700 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Rothwell (about 21,000 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Northamptonshire, with West Northamptonshire.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Fish and chips, Kebab shops, Chinese takeaways, 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.