Online ordering system for South Tyneside takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in South Tyneside: 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 147 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 208 restaurant and café premises in South Tyneside (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for South Tyneside

Of the 1,034 food businesses registered in South Tyneside, 147 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 208 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, South Tyneside ranks 10th of the 13 councils the FSA lists in the North East.

Restaurants and cafés (208) outnumber takeaways (147), but takeaways are still about 14% of the 1,034 food premises of every kind that South Tyneside registers.

Per head of population that is 9.7 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (151,255 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to the UK figure of 9.1 and 10.3 in the North East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 51.4% of the 144 rated takeaway premises in South Tyneside hold a 5 and 5.6% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (-10.6 points). In the North East as a whole, 66.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so South Tyneside is below its region.

3 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 88 (60%) 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 Tyneside

• South Tyneside has the fewest takeaway premises of the 5 council areas in Tyne and Wear.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 76.4% hold a 5 against 51.4% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 67% of rated takeaways in NE31 hold a 5, against 42% in NE34.
• South Tyneside and North Tyneside (3 miles apart) are close in size: 147 and 199 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.4 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in South Tyneside, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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

By postcode district, NE33 has the most takeaway premises in South Tyneside (62), followed by NE34 (40) and NE32 (19).

Food premises in South Tyneside are close together: 91% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.4 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.

Cuisines on the South Tyneside register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 4 cuisine words reach 10 premises in South Tyneside: 22 pizza, 16 fish and chip, 14 Indian-style and more.

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.

Indian or curry is the cuisine word that sets South Tyneside apart. It appears in 14 of the area's 355 food premises (3.9%), where the UK rate is 2.2%, or 1.8 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 8 of the 14 are in NE33, a district with 62 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 14 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 29% hold a 5, against 51.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in South Tyneside. If you run an Indian restaurant here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 2 of 355 (0.6%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

Main places in the South Tyneside council area include South Shields (about 73,300 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Jarrow (about 29,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Tyne and Wear, with Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Sunderland.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Fish and chips, Indian restaurants, Chinese takeaways, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the North East

• Pizza shop ordering in County Durham
• Pizza shop ordering in Newcastle upon Tyne
• Indian restaurant ordering in County Durham
• Indian restaurant ordering in Sunderland

All of the North East

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.