Online ordering system for Rugby takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Rugby: 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 100 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 183 restaurant and café premises in Rugby (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Rugby

Of the 921 food businesses registered in Rugby, 100 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 183 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Rugby ranks 14th of the 30 councils the FSA lists in the West Midlands.

Restaurants and cafés (183) outnumber takeaways (100), but takeaways are still about 11% of the 921 food premises of every kind that Rugby registers.

Per head of population that is 8.0 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (125,594 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to the UK figure of 9.1 and 8.5 in the West Midlands. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 58.3% of the 96 rated takeaway premises in Rugby hold a 5 and 16.7% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (-3.7 points). In the West Midlands as a whole, 57.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Rugby is close to its region.

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 68 (68%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. The share rated 0 to 2 is higher than the England average (5.8%), so a visible good rating on your own site helps. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Cuisines on the Rugby register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 3 cuisine words reach 10 premises in Rugby: 13 pizza, 13 fish and chip, 12 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Chinese or noodle names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Rugby: 12 of the 283 food premises (4.2%), against 2.5% across the UK, about 1.7 times the national rate. 6 of the 12 are in CV21, a district with 51 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 12 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 25% hold a 5, against 58.3% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Rugby. For a Chinese takeaway in Rugby, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 1 of 283 (0.4%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Where the takeaways are, and what that means for delivery zones

By postcode district, CV21 has the most takeaway premises in Rugby (51), followed by CV22 (37) and CV23 (7).

Food premises in Rugby are close together: 86% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 0.8 miles). A single postcode-based delivery zone per kitchen works well, and a short collection time is the main selling point. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Local patterns in Rugby

• CV21 alone holds 51% of the takeaway premises in Rugby (51 of 100), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Rugby has the most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Warwickshire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 75% hold a 5 against 58.3% for takeaways.
• Coventry, 11 miles away, has 474 takeaway premises against 100 in Rugby, so Rugby customers have fewer local rivals.

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

Rugby and the areas around it

Main places in the Rugby council area include Rugby (about 78,100 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Warwickshire, with North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick.

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

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