Online ordering system for Swale takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Swale: 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 105 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 255 restaurant and café premises in Swale (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Swale has

Swale registers 1,242 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 105 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 255 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Swale is number 19 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (255 against 105), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 6.5 premises per 10,000 residents (population 160,671, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 6.4 in the South East. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

103 takeaway premises in Swale have a published rating. 64.1% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+2.1 points), and 3.9% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Swale is close to its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 54 (51%) 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Swale

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Swale has 4 words that reach 10: 24 fish and chip, 20 pizza, 15 Chinese-style and more.

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.

On the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, Chinese or noodle names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Swale: 16 of the 360 food premises (4.4%), against 2.5% across the UK, about 1.8 times the national rate. 6 of the 16 are in ME12, a district with 38 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 16 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 69% hold a 5, against 64.1% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Swale. For a Chinese takeaway in Swale, that means more near-identical names on the same delivery apps, which makes a page of your own, linked from your Google listing, worth more. These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

What stands out in Swale

• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 81% hold a 5 against 64.1% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 80% of rated takeaways in ME13 hold a 5, against 56% in ME12.
• Medway, 10 miles away, has 222 takeaway premises against 105 in Swale, so Swale customers have fewer local rivals.
• ME10 alone holds 39% of the takeaway premises in Swale (41 of 105), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Swale has the number 5 most takeaway premises of the 13 council areas in Kent.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Swale has takeaways in 5 postcode districts, and the three with the most are ME10 (41), ME12 (38), ME13 (15).

Half of the food premises in Swale are within 5.4 miles of the centre, 37% within 3 miles and 99% within 10. That suits a close zone with a low minimum order plus a wider zone 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.

Late-night hot food in Swale: 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 Swale'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.

Swale and the areas around it

Main places in the Swale council area include Faversham (about 20,900 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Kent, with Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe and Gravesham.

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

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