Online ordering system for South Derbyshire takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in South Derbyshire: 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 73 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 120 restaurant and café premises in South Derbyshire (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants South Derbyshire has

South Derbyshire registers 885 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 73 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 120 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 35 councils the FSA lists in the East Midlands, South Derbyshire is number 24 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (120) outnumber takeaways (73), but takeaways are still about 8% of the 885 food premises of every kind that South Derbyshire registers.

Takeaway density: 6.1 premises per 10,000 residents (population 119,441, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 9.1 in the East Midlands. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

72 takeaway premises in South Derbyshire have a published rating. 55.6% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (-6.4 points), and 4.2% are rated 0 to 2. In the East Midlands as a whole, 69.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so South Derbyshire is below its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 42 (58%) 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.

The kitchens behind the names in South Derbyshire

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), South Derbyshire has 2 words that reach 10: 12 fish and chip, 11 pizza.

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, South Derbyshire stands out for Indian or curry: 9 premises, 4.7% of the 193 on the register, against 2.2% across the UK. 3 of the 9 are in DE11, a district with 41 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 9 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 56% hold a 5, against 55.6% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in South Derbyshire. 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: 1 of 193 (0.5%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

What stands out in South Derbyshire

• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 72.8% hold a 5 against 55.6% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 62% of rated takeaways in DE73 hold a 5, against 49% in DE11.
• East Staffordshire, 4 miles away, has 105 takeaway premises against 73 in South Derbyshire, so South Derbyshire customers have fewer local rivals.
• DE11 alone holds 56% of the takeaway premises in South Derbyshire (41 of 73), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• South Derbyshire has the number 6 most takeaway premises of the 9 council areas in Derbyshire.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

South Derbyshire has takeaways in 8 postcode districts, and the three with the most are DE11 (41), DE65 (13), DE73 (8).

53% of premises in South Derbyshire are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 98% within 10 miles; half are within 1.7 miles. Most kitchens will want two zones, a close one with a low minimum order and a wider one 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 South Derbyshire: 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 South Derbyshire'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.

South Derbyshire and the areas around it

Main places in the South Derbyshire council area include Swadlincote, Melbourne and Repton.

Part of Derbyshire, with Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derby, Derbyshire Dales and Erewash.

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

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