Online ordering system for Sefton takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Sefton: 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 268 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 543 restaurant and café premises in Sefton (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Sefton's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 2,403 food businesses of every kind in Sefton: 268 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 543 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The North West has 35 councils on the FSA list, and Sefton sits 14th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (543) outnumber takeaways (268), but takeaways are still about 11% of the 2,403 food premises of every kind that Sefton registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 287,583, Sefton has 9.3 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, close to the UK rate of 9.1 and 11.1 in the North West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 249 takeaway premises with a published rating, 67.9% hold a 5 and 1.6% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+5.9 points). In the North West as a whole, 54.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Sefton is above its region.

19 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 122 (46%) 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 Sefton

Looking at trading names, Sefton has 4 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 48 pizza, 25 fish and chip, 12 Chinese-style and more. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

Local set-up: Pizza shop ordering in Sefton.

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, pizza is the cuisine word that stands out most in Sefton, a little above the national rate: 48 of the 811 food premises (5.9%), against 4.6% across the UK. 11 of the 48 are in L20, a district with 45 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 44 rated pizza-named premises, 55% hold a 5, against 67.9% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Sefton. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 7 of 811 (0.9%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Sefton are PR8 (68), L20 (45), PR9 (37), out of 11 districts with at least one takeaway.

Sefton is spread out: only 25% of premises are within 3 miles of the middle of the area, 97% within 10 and the furthest tenth are over 9.3 miles away. Rural and town-by-town delivery needs separate zones per town, and collection with a time slot often beats long delivery runs. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Sefton compared with elsewhere

• PR8 alone holds 25% of the takeaway premises in Sefton (68 of 268), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Sefton has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Merseyside.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 86.4% hold a 5 against 67.9% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 92% of rated takeaways in PR9 hold a 5, against 29% in L21.
• Sefton has 2.6 times as many takeaway premises as West Lancashire (104), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.

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

Sefton and the areas around it

Main places in the Sefton council area include Southport (about 94,400 people in the 2021 built-up area), Formby (about 22,900 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Maghull (about 20,400 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Merseyside, with Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens and Wirral.

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, Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the North West

• Pizza shop ordering in Liverpool
• Indian restaurant ordering in Liverpool
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• Kebab shop ordering in Wirral

All of the North West

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.