Online ordering system for South Oxfordshire takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in South Oxfordshire: 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 83 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 280 restaurant and café premises in South Oxfordshire (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for South Oxfordshire

Of the 1,289 food businesses registered in South Oxfordshire, 83 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 280 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, South Oxfordshire ranks 29th of the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (280 against 83), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 5.3 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (158,084 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 47.6% of the 82 rated takeaway premises in South Oxfordshire hold a 5 and 6.1% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (-14.4 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so South Oxfordshire is below its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 37 (45%) 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.

Local patterns in South Oxfordshire

• South Oxfordshire has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Oxfordshire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 64% hold a 5 against 47.6% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 70% of rated takeaways in OX9 hold a 5, against 40% in RG9.
• South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse (10 miles apart) are close in size: 83 and 74 takeaway premises.
• South Oxfordshire leans towards restaurants and cafés: 3.4 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.

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

By postcode district, OX11 has the most takeaway premises in South Oxfordshire (28), followed by RG9 (15) and OX10 (15).

South Oxfordshire is spread out: only 14% of premises are within 3 miles of the middle of the area, 84% within 10 and the furthest tenth are over 11 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.

Cuisines on the South Oxfordshire register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 2 cuisine words reach 10 premises in South Oxfordshire: 13 pizza, 12 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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, no cuisine word stands out in South Oxfordshire: the most common is pizza, with 13 of the 363 food premises (3.6%), against 4.6% across the UK, close to the national rate. Without one dominant style, customers search for a kitchen by name, so a page of your own that comes up under that name is worth more than a category listing. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 3 of 363 (0.8%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

South Oxfordshire and the areas around it

Main places in the South Oxfordshire council area include Didcot (about 34,600 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Oxfordshire, with Cherwell, Oxford, Vale of White Horse and West Oxfordshire.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, 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.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.