Online ordering system for Richmond upon Thames takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Richmond upon Thames: 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 70 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 728 restaurant and café premises in Richmond upon Thames (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Richmond upon Thames has

Richmond upon Thames registers 1,621 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 70 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 728 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 33 councils the FSA lists in London, Richmond upon Thames is number 33 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (728 against 70), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 3.6 premises per 10,000 residents (population 196,713, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 10.3 in London. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

62 takeaway premises in Richmond upon Thames have a published rating. 58.1% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (-3.9 points), and 1.6% are rated 0 to 2. In London as a whole, 56.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Richmond upon Thames is close to its region.

8 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 22 (31%) 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

Richmond upon Thames has takeaways in 9 postcode districts, and the three with the most are TW1 (15), TW2 (14), SW14 (9).

92% of Richmond upon Thames's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 1.7 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

What stands out in Richmond upon Thames

• Hounslow, 2 miles away, has 249 takeaway premises against 70 in Richmond upon Thames, so Richmond upon Thames customers have fewer local rivals.
• Richmond upon Thames leans towards restaurants and cafés: 10.4 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 77.2% hold a 5 against 58.1% for takeaways.
• 11% of takeaway premises (8) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 75% of rated takeaways in TW11 hold a 5, against 62% in TW2.

The kitchens behind the names in Richmond upon Thames

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Richmond upon Thames has 3 words that reach 10: 30 pizza, 20 Indian-style, 14 fish and chip.

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.

Richmond upon Thames has no standout cuisine word. The most common in trading names is pizza, at 30 of 798 food premises (3.8%), close to the UK's 4.6% (FSA, 13 November 2026). Nothing dominates, so a kitchen here competes on its own name and menu; a direct ordering page makes that name easy to find and easy to order from. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 8 of 798 (1.0%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Richmond upon Thames: 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 Richmond upon Thames'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.

Richmond upon Thames and the areas around it

Main places in the Richmond upon Thames council area include Richmond, Twickenham and Teddington.

Part of Greater London, with Camden, Southwark, Brent, Croydon, Newham and Lambeth.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Indian restaurants, Fish and chips, 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.