Online ordering system for Wandsworth takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Wandsworth: 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 196 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 1,256 restaurant and café premises in Wandsworth (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Wandsworth has

Wandsworth registers 2,959 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 196 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 1,256 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 33 councils the FSA lists in London, Wandsworth is number 25 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (1,256 against 196), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Takeaway density: 5.8 premises per 10,000 residents (population 339,859, ONS mid-2025 estimate), below 9.1 across the UK and 10.3 in London. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

168 takeaway premises in Wandsworth have a published rating. 69.6% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+7.6 points), and 5.4% are rated 0 to 2. In London as a whole, 56.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Wandsworth is above its region.

28 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 99 (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.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

Wandsworth has takeaways in 8 postcode districts, and the three with the most are SW11 (58), SW18 (37), SW17 (30).

Food premises in Wandsworth are close together: 98% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.5 miles). A single postcode-based delivery zone per kitchen works well, and a short collection time is the main selling point. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

What stands out in Wandsworth

• Lambeth, 2 miles away, has 406 takeaway premises against 196 in Wandsworth, so Wandsworth customers have fewer local rivals.
• This is one of the bigger markets, with 1,452 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, so a kitchen needs a page and a brand customers recognise to be found among them.
• Wandsworth leans towards restaurants and cafés: 6.4 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• SW11 alone holds 30% of the takeaway premises in Wandsworth (58 of 196), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• 14% of takeaway premises (28) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

The kitchens behind the names in Wandsworth

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Wandsworth has 7 words that reach 10: 58 pizza, 35 chicken, 21 burger 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.

Chicken or peri-peri is the cuisine word that sets Wandsworth apart. It appears in 43 of the area's 1,452 food premises (3.0%), where the UK rate is 1.8%, or 1.6 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 12 of the 43 are in SW11, a district with 58 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 40 rated chicken or peri-peri-named premises, 58% hold a 5, against 69.6% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Wandsworth. If you run a chicken shop here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. Chinese or noodle names are rarer than average: 17 of 1,452 (1.2%, against 2.5% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Wandsworth: 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. Wandsworth's council publishes its process here: Wandsworth council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

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.

Wandsworth and the areas around it

Main places in the Wandsworth council area include Battersea, Putney, Tooting and Clapham.

Part of Greater London, with Camden, Southwark, Brent, Croydon, Newham and Lambeth.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Chicken shops, Burger, Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

All UK locations

Popular in London

• Chicken shop ordering in Lambeth
• Pizza shop ordering in Westminster
• Indian restaurant ordering in Westminster
• Pizza shop ordering in Lambeth
• Chicken shop ordering in Brent

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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.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.