Online ordering system for Stevenage takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Stevenage: 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 182 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 132 restaurant and café premises in Stevenage (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Stevenage's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 687 food businesses of every kind in Stevenage: 182 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 132 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. East of England has 45 councils on the FSA list, and Stevenage sits 6th of them for takeaway premises.

There are more takeaway and sandwich shop premises than restaurants and cafés here (182 against 132), which is unusual and means the competition for a phone order is mostly other takeaways.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 92,081, Stevenage has 19.8 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, above the UK rate of 9.1 and 7.2 in East of England. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 107 takeaway premises with a published rating, 85% hold a 5 and 2.8% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+23.0 points). In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Stevenage is above its region.

72 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 45 (25%) 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.

Stevenage compared with elsewhere

• SG1 alone holds 66% of the takeaway premises in Stevenage (120 of 182), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Stevenage has the most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Hertfordshire.
• 40% of takeaway premises (72) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Stevenage has 1.9 times as many takeaway premises as North Hertfordshire (98), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 0.7 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Stevenage, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Which kitchens are in Stevenage

Looking at trading names, Stevenage has 2 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 19 pizza, 10 fish and chip. 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.

Reading trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Stevenage stands out for chicken or peri-peri: 9 premises, 2.9% of the 314 on the register, against 1.8% across the UK. 6 of the 9 are in SG1, a district with 120 registered takeaways of every kind. A chicken shop here shares its streets with more lookalikes than the national average would predict, so a direct ordering page and a clear link on your Google Business Profile do more work. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 5 of 314 (1.6%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Stevenage are SG1 (120), SG2 (58).

100% of Stevenage's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.6 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

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

Stevenage and the areas around it

Main places in the Stevenage council area include Stevenage (about 94,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Hertfordshire, with Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire and St Albans.

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.

All UK locations

Popular in the East of England

• Chicken shop ordering in Luton
• Indian restaurant ordering in Luton
• Chicken shop ordering in Central Bedfordshire
• Kebab shop ordering in Great Yarmouth
• Indian restaurant ordering in Southend-on-Sea

All of the East of England

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.