Online ordering system for St Helens takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in St Helens: 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 183 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 220 restaurant and café premises in St Helens (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants St Helens has

St Helens registers 1,395 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 183 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 220 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 35 councils the FSA lists in the North West, St Helens is number 21 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (220) outnumber takeaways (183), but takeaways are still about 13% of the 1,395 food premises of every kind that St Helens registers.

Takeaway density: 9.6 premises per 10,000 residents (population 189,890, ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to 9.1 across the UK and 11.1 in the North West. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

173 takeaway premises in St Helens have a published rating. 36.4% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (-25.6 points), and 10.4% are rated 0 to 2. In the North West as a whole, 54.1% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so St Helens is below its region.

10 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 108 (59%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. The share rated 0 to 2 is higher than the England average (5.8%), so a visible good rating on your own site helps. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

What stands out in St Helens

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 46% of rated takeaways in WA12 hold a 5, against 33% in WA9.
• Pizza is the most visible cuisine word in St Helens: 38 trading names, 9% of all takeaway and restaurant premises.
• St Helens has 1.6 times as many takeaway premises as Knowsley (112), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.2 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in St Helens, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• WA10 alone holds 32% of the takeaway premises in St Helens (58 of 183), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

The kitchens behind the names in St Helens

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), St Helens has 3 words that reach 10: 38 pizza, 18 fish and chip, 11 Chinese-style.

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.

Pizza is the cuisine word that sets St Helens apart. It appears in 38 of the area's 403 food premises (9.4%), where the UK rate is 4.6%, or 2.0 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 16 of the 38 are in WA9, a district with 58 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 35 rated pizza-named premises, 26% hold a 5, against 36.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in St Helens. If you run a pizza shop 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: 5 of 403 (1.2%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

St Helens has takeaways in 7 postcode districts, and the three with the most are WA10 (58), WA9 (58), WA11 (27).

Food premises in St Helens are close together: 72% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.6 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.

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

St Helens and the areas around it

Main places in the St Helens council area include St Helens, Newton-le-Willows and Haydock.

Part of Merseyside, with Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton 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, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the North West

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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.