Online ordering system for North Somerset takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in North Somerset: 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 141 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 313 restaurant and café premises in North Somerset (pulled 13 November 2026).

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North Somerset's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,723 food businesses of every kind in North Somerset: 141 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 313 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and North Somerset sits 10th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (313 against 141), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 227,160, North Somerset has 6.2 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 135 takeaway premises with a published rating, 60% hold a 5 and 5.2% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is close to the 62% average for England. In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so North Somerset is below its region.

6 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 74 (52%) 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.

Which kitchens are in North Somerset

Looking at trading names, North Somerset has 5 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 25 fish and chip, 21 pizza, 17 Chinese-style and more. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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 Somerset apart. It appears in 16 of the area's 454 food premises (3.5%), where the UK rate is 1.7%, or 2.0 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 8 of the 16 are in BS23, a district with 52 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 16 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 56% hold a 5, against 60.0% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in North Somerset. 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. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 5 of 454 (1.1%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

North Somerset compared with elsewhere

• Cardiff, 15 miles away, has 282 takeaway premises against 141 in North Somerset, so North Somerset customers have fewer local rivals.
• BS23 alone holds 37% of the takeaway premises in North Somerset (52 of 141), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• North Somerset has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 3 council areas in Somerset.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 88% of rated takeaways in BS24 hold a 5, against 53% in BS23.

Where North Somerset's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in North Somerset are BS23 (52), BS22 (23), BS20 (19), out of 11 districts with at least one takeaway.

Half of the food premises in North Somerset are within 2.9 miles of the centre, 51% within 3 miles and 83% within 10. That suits a close zone with a low minimum order plus a wider zone 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 North Somerset: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: North Somerset council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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 Somerset and the areas around it

Main places in the North Somerset council area include Weston-super-Mare (about 84,600 people in the 2021 built-up area), Portishead (about 26,400 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Clevedon (about 21,100 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Somerset, with Bath and North East Somerset and Somerset.

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

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