Online ordering system for Thurrock takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Thurrock: 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 152 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 252 restaurant and café premises in Thurrock (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Thurrock's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,354 food businesses of every kind in Thurrock: 152 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 252 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. East of England has 45 councils on the FSA list, and Thurrock sits 9th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (252) outnumber takeaways (152), but takeaways are still about 11% of the 1,354 food premises of every kind that Thurrock registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 181,664, Thurrock has 8.4 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, close to 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 144 takeaway premises with a published rating, 52.8% hold a 5 and 3.5% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-9.2 points). In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Thurrock is below its region.

8 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 93 (61%) 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.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Thurrock are RM17 (39), SS17 (26), RM15 (22), out of 7 districts with at least one takeaway.

76% of Thurrock's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 1.8 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.

Thurrock compared with elsewhere

• Thurrock has 1.6 times as many takeaway premises as Gravesham (94), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• RM17 alone holds 26% of the takeaway premises in Thurrock (39 of 152), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Thurrock has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 14 council areas in Essex.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 71.2% hold a 5 against 52.8% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 81% of rated takeaways in RM20 hold a 5, against 33% in RM18.

Which kitchens are in Thurrock

Looking at trading names, Thurrock has 5 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 19 pizza, 16 chicken, 14 kebab and more. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

Local set-up: Chicken shop ordering in Thurrock.

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, chicken or peri-peri names are the most distinctive cuisine word in Thurrock: 16 of the 404 food premises (4.0%), against 1.8% across the UK, about 2.1 times the national rate. 5 of the 16 are in RM17, a district with 39 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 15 rated chicken or peri-peri-named premises, 53% hold a 5, against 52.8% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Thurrock. For a chicken shop in Thurrock, 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. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 7 of 404 (1.7%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Thurrock: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: Thurrock council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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.

Thurrock and the areas around it

Main places in the Thurrock council area include Grays (about 44,300 people in the 2021 built-up area), Stanford-le-Hope (about 29,500 people in the 2021 built-up area), Chafford Hundred and West Thurrock (about 23,600 people in the 2021 built-up area) and South Ockendon (about 22,400 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Essex, with Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford and Colchester.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Chicken shops, Kebab shops, Fish and chips, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in the East of England

• Chicken shop ordering in Luton
• Chicken shop ordering in Central Bedfordshire
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• 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.