Online ordering system for Stroud takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Stroud: 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 142 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 213 restaurant and café premises in Stroud (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Stroud's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,054 food businesses of every kind in Stroud: 142 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 213 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South West has 27 councils on the FSA list, and Stroud sits 9th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (213) outnumber takeaways (142), but takeaways are still about 13% of the 1,054 food premises of every kind that Stroud registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 126,418, Stroud has 11.2 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, above the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 133 takeaway premises with a published rating, 71.4% hold a 5 and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+9.4 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Stroud is close to its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 74 (52%) 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.

Stroud compared with elsewhere

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 100% of rated takeaways in GL12 hold a 5, against 42% in GL11.
• Stroud and Gloucester (8 miles apart) are close in size: 142 and 105 takeaway premises.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.5 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Stroud, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• GL5 alone holds 36% of the takeaway premises in Stroud (51 of 142), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Stroud has the most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in Gloucestershire.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Stroud are GL5 (51), GL10 (19), GL2 (19), out of 8 districts with at least one takeaway.

48% of premises in Stroud are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 95% within 10 miles; half are within 3.1 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 Stroud

Looking at trading names, Stroud has 2 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 12 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, kebab or doner is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Stroud: 8 premises, 2.3% against 1.7%. 4 of the 8 are in GL5, a district with 51 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 8 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 25% hold a 5, against 71.4% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Stroud. 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 Stroud: 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. Stroud's council publishes its process here: Stroud 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.

Stroud and the areas around it

Main places in the Stroud council area include Stroud (about 26,100 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Gloucestershire, with Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, South Gloucestershire and Tewkesbury.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Indian restaurants, 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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.