Online ordering system for Renfrewshire takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Renfrewshire: 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 209 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 280 restaurant and café premises in Renfrewshire (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Renfrewshire has

Renfrewshire registers 1,515 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 209 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 280 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 32 councils the FSA lists in Scotland, Renfrewshire is number 9 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (280) outnumber takeaways (209), but takeaways are still about 14% of the 1,515 food premises of every kind that Renfrewshire registers.

Takeaway density: 11.0 premises per 10,000 residents (population 189,270, ONS mid-2025 estimate), above 9.1 across the UK. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Scotland uses the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS), which gives Pass or Improvement Required instead of a 0 to 5 score, and displaying the result is voluntary. Of 201 takeaway premises in Renfrewshire with a result, 95% passed and 5% need improvement; the Pass share is above the Scotland average of 86.7%.

8 takeaway premises are awaiting inspection and 154 (74%) were inspected in the last 12 months. Because FHIS has only two outcomes, the way to stand out is to show your Pass certificate on your own ordering page. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

What stands out in Renfrewshire

• PA1 alone holds 31% of the takeaway premises in Renfrewshire (64 of 209), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Renfrewshire has the number 4 most takeaway premises of the 8 council areas in Glasgow and the West.
• Pass rates differ by district: 100% of rated takeaways in PA5 passed, against 88% in PA3.
• Renfrewshire has 2.2 times as many takeaway premises as East Renfrewshire (93), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.3 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Renfrewshire, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The kitchens behind the names in Renfrewshire

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Renfrewshire has 3 words that reach 10: 18 pizza, 16 Indian-style, 14 Chinese-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.

Reading trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Renfrewshire stands out for Indian or curry: 16 premises, 3.3% of the 489 on the register, against 2.2% across the UK. 6 of the 16 are in PA1, a district with 64 registered takeaways of every kind. An indian restaurant here shares its streets with more lookalikes than the national average would predict, so a direct ordering page and a clear link on your Google Business Profile do more work. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 3 of 489 (0.6%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Renfrewshire has takeaways in 12 postcode districts, and the three with the most are PA1 (64), PA3 (34), PA5 (27).

Half of the food premises in Renfrewshire are within 1.9 miles of the centre, 69% within 3 miles and 100% 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 Renfrewshire: the council's own page

In Scotland, selling food or hot drink between 11pm and 5am needs a late hours catering licence from the council, under section 42 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, whether the food is eaten on the premises or taken away. Renfrewshire's council licensing pages are here: Renfrewshire council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

Our late night refreshment licence guide covers England and Wales; the rules in Scotland are different. 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.

Renfrewshire and the areas around it

Main places in the Renfrewshire council area include Paisley, Renfrew and Johnstone.

Part of Glasgow and the West, with East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Indian restaurants, 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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.