Online ordering system for Torridge takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Torridge: 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 50 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 114 restaurant and café premises in Torridge (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Torridge

Of the 769 food businesses registered in Torridge, 50 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 114 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Torridge ranks 22nd of the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (114 against 50), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 7.1 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (70,378 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.9 in the South West. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 80% of the 50 rated takeaway premises in Torridge hold a 5 and 4% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+18.0 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Torridge is above its region.

No takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection, and 31 (62%) 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.

Cuisines on the Torridge register

No single cuisine word (kebab, pizza, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, chicken, peri-peri, shawarma, fish and chip, burger) appears in 10 or more trading names in Torridge, so the market is a spread of independents rather than one dominant style. That favours a menu that is easy to find under its own name.

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, no cuisine word stands out in Torridge: the most common is pizza, with 6 of the 164 food premises (3.7%), against 4.6% across the UK, close to the national rate. Without one dominant style, customers search for a kitchen by name, so a page of your own that comes up under that name is worth more than a category listing. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 2 of 164 (1.2%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Where the takeaways are, and what that means for delivery zones

By postcode district, EX39 has the most takeaway premises in Torridge (31), followed by EX22 (8) and EX38 (7).

Half of the food premises in Torridge are within 2.2 miles of the centre, 58% within 3 miles and 78% 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.

Local patterns in Torridge

• North Devon, 8 miles away, has 79 takeaway premises against 50 in Torridge, so Torridge customers have fewer local rivals.
• EX39 alone holds 62% of the takeaway premises in Torridge (31 of 50), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Torridge has the number 8 most takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.
• Unusually, takeaways in Torridge rate as well as restaurants and cafés on hygiene: 80% hold a 5 against 78.8% for restaurants and cafés.

Late-night hot food in Torridge: 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 Torridge'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.

Torridge and the areas around it

Main places in the Torridge council area include Bideford, Northam and Holsworthy.

Part of Devon, with East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, Plymouth and South Hams.

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

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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.