Online ordering system for Test Valley takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Test Valley: 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 59 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 193 restaurant and café premises in Test Valley (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Test Valley has

Test Valley registers 1,053 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 59 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 193 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East, Test Valley is number 49 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (193 against 59), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 4.3 premises per 10,000 residents (population 135,698, 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

58 takeaway premises in Test Valley have a published rating. 74.1% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+12.1 points), and 3.4% are rated 0 to 2. In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Test Valley is above its region.

1 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 32 (54%) 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.

The kitchens behind the names in Test Valley

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Test Valley has one word that reaches 10: 11 pizza.

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, Chinese or noodle is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Test Valley: 8 premises, 3.2% against 2.5%. 5 of the 8 are in SP10, a district with 33 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 8 rated Chinese or noodle-named premises, 38% hold a 5, against 74.1% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Test Valley. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 3 of 252 (1.2%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

What stands out in Test Valley

• Test Valley has the number 10 most takeaway premises of the 13 council areas in Hampshire.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 81% of rated takeaways in SP10 hold a 5, against 62% in SO51.
• Test Valley and Winchester (10 miles apart) are close in size: 59 and 52 takeaway premises.
• Test Valley leans towards restaurants and cafés: 3.3 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• SP10 alone holds 56% of the takeaway premises in Test Valley (33 of 59), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Test Valley has takeaways in 7 postcode districts, and the three with the most are SP10 (33), SO51 (16), SO52 (4).

Distances in Test Valley are long: 6% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 59% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 13.3 miles out. Set a separate zone for each town, and offer timed collection where delivery runs would be long. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Late-night hot food in Test Valley: 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 Test Valley'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.

Test Valley and the areas around it

Main places in the Test Valley council area include Andover (about 48,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Hampshire, with Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and Hart.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, 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.