Online ordering system for Stockton-on-Tees takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Stockton-on-Tees: 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 179 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 233 restaurant and café premises in Stockton-on-Tees (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Stockton-on-Tees has

Stockton-on-Tees registers 1,562 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 179 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 233 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 13 councils the FSA lists in the North East, Stockton-on-Tees is number 7 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (233) outnumber takeaways (179), but takeaways are still about 11% of the 1,562 food premises of every kind that Stockton-on-Tees registers.

Takeaway density: 8.6 premises per 10,000 residents (population 207,158, ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to 9.1 across the UK and 10.3 in the North East. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

171 takeaway premises in Stockton-on-Tees have a published rating. 85.4% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+23.4 points), and 0% are rated 0 to 2. In the North East as a whole, 66.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Stockton-on-Tees is above its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 91 (51%) 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.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Stockton-on-Tees has takeaways in 10 postcode districts, and the three with the most are TS18 (50), TS23 (30), TS17 (30).

Food premises in Stockton-on-Tees are close together: 78% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.5 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.

What stands out in Stockton-on-Tees

• Pizza is the most visible cuisine word in Stockton-on-Tees: 47 trading names, 11% of all takeaway and restaurant premises.
• Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough (3 miles apart) are close in size: 179 and 167 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.3 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Stockton-on-Tees, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• TS18 alone holds 28% of the takeaway premises in Stockton-on-Tees (50 of 179), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Stockton-on-Tees has the most takeaway premises of the 3 council areas in Tees Valley.

The kitchens behind the names in Stockton-on-Tees

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Stockton-on-Tees has 3 words that reach 10: 47 pizza, 12 Chinese-style, 11 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.

Pizza is the cuisine word that sets Stockton-on-Tees apart. It appears in 47 of the area's 412 food premises (11.4%), where the UK rate is 4.6%, or 2.5 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 12 of the 47 are in TS23, a district with 30 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 46 rated pizza-named premises, 91% hold a 5, against 85.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Stockton-on-Tees. 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. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 3 of 412 (0.7%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Stockton-on-Tees: 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 Stockton-on-Tees'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.

Stockton-on-Tees and the areas around it

Main places in the Stockton-on-Tees council area include Stockton-on-Tees (about 84,800 people in the 2021 built-up area) and Ingleby Barwick (about 23,400 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Tees Valley, with Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Chinese takeaways, 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.