Online ordering system for South Hams takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in South Hams: 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 53 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 225 restaurant and café premises in South Hams (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants South Hams has

South Hams registers 1,077 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 53 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 225 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West, South Hams is number 21 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (225 against 53), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 5.7 premises per 10,000 residents (population 93,171, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 6.9 in the South West. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

48 takeaway premises in South Hams have a published rating. 79.2% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+17.2 points), and 2.1% are rated 0 to 2. In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so South Hams is above its region.

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 17 (32%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. With so many 5s, a 4 or below stands out to a customer scrolling through options, so show your rating and fix anything that holds it down. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

The kitchens behind the names in South Hams

No single cuisine word (kebab, pizza, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, chicken, peri-peri, shawarma, fish and chip, burger) appears in 10 or more trading names in South Hams, so the market is a spread of independents rather than one dominant style. That favours a menu that is easy to find under its own name.

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.

South Hams has no standout cuisine word. The most common in trading names is pizza, at 9 of 278 food premises (3.2%), 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. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 0 of 278 (0.0%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

What stands out in South Hams

• 8% of takeaway premises (4) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 100% of rated takeaways in TQ7 hold a 5, against 75% in PL21.
• Torbay, 13 miles away, has 154 takeaway premises against 53 in South Hams, so South Hams customers have fewer local rivals.
• South Hams leans towards restaurants and cafés: 4.2 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• South Hams has the number 7 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

South Hams has takeaways in 9 postcode districts, and the three with the most are PL21 (12), TQ7 (10), TQ8 (10).

South Hams is spread out: only 0% of premises are within 3 miles of the middle of the area, 93% within 10 and the furthest tenth are over 8.8 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.

Late-night hot food in South Hams: 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 Hams'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 Hams and the areas around it

Main places in the South Hams council area include Totnes, Kingsbridge and Ivybridge.

Part of Devon, with East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, Plymouth and Teignbridge.

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

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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.