Online ordering for Reading takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for Reading restaurants and takeaways, with commission-free online ordering. The ordering page is part of your own site; see a website for your restaurant. You can see the online ordering system end to end. There are set-ups for each kind of shop, such as kebab shop ordering system and ordering for chicken shops.

# Online ordering for Reading takeaways and restaurants

Short answer: Reading is a restaurant town more than a takeaway town: 386 restaurant, café or canteen premises against 144 takeaways on the FSA register. That changes the opportunity. Many Reading restaurants offer collection or delivery alongside eating in, and those are often the businesses most exposed to app commission, because their menu prices weren't built around it. Chefzi has 0% commission ever, no setup fee and free menu migration. Chefzi is £39 a month per location billed annually (£49 if billed monthly), ex VAT, with everything included. Current offer: One plan at £39 a month per location, ex VAT: ordering website, your own branded app (Android & iOS), EPOS till, kitchen screen, SMS and email marketing (GDPR compliant) and loyalty rewards. 0% commission ever, no setup fee, free migration and one month free.

What makes Reading different

Restaurants are the main audience. With 2.68 restaurant or café premises for every takeaway, Reading looks more like Bristol or Brighton than Leicester or Luton. If you run a sit-down restaurant, your own ordering page plus table reservations lets you handle both without separate systems.

West Reading is the takeaway hub. RG30 (33), RG1 (29) and RG2 (29) hold most of the town's takeaways.

A 5 still stands out. 48.4% of rated takeaways have a 5, the lowest of the towns in this batch and well below England's 61.9%.

How Chefzi helps Reading food businesses

Reading's takeaway trade runs west along the Oxford Road, a long parade of kitchens from the town centre out towards Tilehurst, and picks up again on Wokingham Road for the Earley side and around Prospect Street in Caversham. The centre itself — Broad Street, the Oracle and St Mary's Butts — is where the sit-down restaurants are, and a good number of them sell collection or delivery from the same kitchen. That mix is why the ordering setup here has to cover both.

• One site for both halves of the business. A mobile-friendly ordering page on your own domain, with table reservations next to delivery and collection.
• 0% commission ever. Chefzi takes no percentage.
• The order app in the kitchen. Tickets land on a phone or tablet you already have, with a prep time to accept — no separate POS required.
• Zones across the Reading run. An Oxford Road kitchen, a Caversham one and a Wokingham Road one deliver over very different ground, so delivery zones, fees and minimum orders are set per area. Collection covers the customers who would rather come to you.
• QR ordering at the table. Guests already seated can scan a code and order without catching anyone's eye, from the same menu as the takeaway side.
• A GloriaFood move, free of charge. Migration is covered on moving from GloriaFood; GloriaFood closes on 30 April 2027.

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