Online ordering system for Stafford takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Stafford: 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 81 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 198 restaurant and café premises in Stafford (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Stafford's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,126 food businesses of every kind in Stafford: 81 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 198 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The West Midlands has 30 councils on the FSA list, and Stafford sits 22nd of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (198 against 81), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 142,903, Stafford has 5.7 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 8.5 in the West Midlands. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 75 takeaway premises with a published rating, 53.3% hold a 5 and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-8.7 points). In the West Midlands as a whole, 57.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Stafford is below its region.

6 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 62 (77%) 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.

Stafford compared with elsewhere

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 60% of rated takeaways in ST15 hold a 5, against 42% in ST17.
• Stafford and Cannock Chase (9 miles apart) are close in size: 81 and 102 takeaway premises.
• ST16 alone holds 53% of the takeaway premises in Stafford (43 of 81), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Stafford has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 9 council areas in Staffordshire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 86.1% hold a 5 against 53.3% for takeaways.

Where Stafford's takeaways sit, and how to draw delivery zones

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Stafford are ST16 (43), ST17 (14), ST15 (12), out of 6 districts with at least one takeaway.

56% of premises in Stafford are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 95% within 10 miles; half are within 1.9 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.

Which kitchens are in Stafford

Looking at trading names, Stafford has 3 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 17 fish and chip, 14 pizza, 10 Indian-style. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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.

Among trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Indian or curry is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Stafford: 9 premises, 3.2% against 2.2%. 4 of the 9 are in ST16, a district with 43 registered takeaways of every kind. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 3 of 279 (1.1%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Stafford: 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 Stafford'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.

Stafford and the areas around it

Main places in the Stafford council area include Stafford (about 71,700 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Staffordshire, with Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire and Staffordshire Moorlands.

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

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

All UK locations

Popular in the West Midlands

• Indian restaurant ordering in Birmingham
• Pizza shop ordering in Birmingham
• Kebab shop ordering in Stoke-on-Trent
• Indian restaurant ordering in Stoke-on-Trent
• Pizza shop ordering in Sandwell

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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.