Online ordering system for Uttlesford takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Uttlesford: 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 46 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 255 restaurant and café premises in Uttlesford (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Uttlesford

Of the 850 food businesses registered in Uttlesford, 46 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 255 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Uttlesford ranks 42nd of the 45 councils the FSA lists in East of England.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (255 against 46), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 4.8 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (96,762 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 7.2 in East of England. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 89.5% of the 38 rated takeaway premises in Uttlesford hold a 5 and 0% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+27.5 points). In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Uttlesford is above its region.

7 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 25 (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.

Local patterns in Uttlesford

• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 92% of rated takeaways in CM6 hold a 5, against 67% in CB10.
• Uttlesford and Harlow (11 miles apart) are close in size: 46 and 51 takeaway premises.
• Uttlesford leans towards restaurants and cafés: 5.5 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• CM6 alone holds 30% of the takeaway premises in Uttlesford (14 of 46), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Uttlesford has the number 13 most takeaway premises of the 14 council areas in Essex.

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

By postcode district, CM6 has the most takeaway premises in Uttlesford (14), followed by CB10 (11) and CM24 (8).

Distances in Uttlesford are long: 30% of premises are within 3 miles of the centre, 97% within 10, and the furthest tenth are over 8.4 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.

Cuisines on the Uttlesford 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 Uttlesford, 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.

Trading names in Uttlesford show a spread rather than a theme: pizza leads with 7 premises (2.3%), in line with the UK's 4.6% (FSA, 13 November 2026). With no dominant style, a kitchen is judged on its own name and menu rather than on its category, so being easy to find under that name is what a direct ordering page adds. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 0 of 301 (0.0%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Uttlesford: 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 Uttlesford'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.

Uttlesford and the areas around it

Main places in the Uttlesford council area include Saffron Walden, Great Dunmow and Stansted Mountfitchet.

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):

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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.