Online ordering system for West Devon takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in West Devon: 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 31 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 103 restaurant and café premises in West Devon (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for West Devon

Of the 622 food businesses registered in West Devon, 31 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 103 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, West Devon ranks 26th of the 27 councils the FSA lists in the South West.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (103 against 31), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 5.3 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (58,980 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, 83.9% of the 31 rated takeaway premises in West Devon hold a 5 and 3.2% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+21.9 points). In the South West as a whole, 73.3% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so West Devon is above its region.

No takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection, and 13 (42%) 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 West Devon 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 West Devon, 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 West Devon: the most common is pizza, with 5 of the 134 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: 1 of 134 (0.7%, 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, EX20 has the most takeaway premises in West Devon (14), followed by PL19 (11) and PL20 (5).

Half of the food premises in West Devon are within 4.2 miles of the centre, 49% within 3 miles and 62% 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 West Devon

• West Devon has the fewest takeaway premises of the 10 council areas in Devon.
• Plymouth, 12 miles away, has 172 takeaway premises against 31 in West Devon, so West Devon customers have fewer local rivals.
• This is a small market, 134 takeaway, restaurant and café premises in all, so a single well-run ordering page can reach most local customers.
• West Devon 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.

Late-night hot food in West Devon: 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 West Devon'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.

West Devon and the areas around it

Main places in the West Devon council area include Tavistock and Okehampton.

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.