Online ordering system for West Lothian takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in West Lothian: 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 190 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 260 restaurant and café premises in West Lothian (pulled 13 November 2026).

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West Lothian's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,161 food businesses of every kind in West Lothian: 190 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 260 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. Scotland has 32 councils on the FSA list, and West Lothian sits 11th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (260) outnumber takeaways (190), but takeaways are still about 16% of the 1,161 food premises of every kind that West Lothian registers.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 187,240, West Lothian has 10.1 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, close to the UK rate of 9.1. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Scotland uses the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (FHIS), which gives Pass or Improvement Required instead of a 0 to 5 score, and displaying the result is voluntary. Of 151 takeaway premises in West Lothian with a result, 92.7% passed and 7.3% need improvement; the Pass share is above the Scotland average of 86.7%.

39 takeaway premises are awaiting inspection and 126 (66%) were inspected in the last 12 months. Because FHIS has only two outcomes, the way to stand out is to show your Pass certificate on your own ordering page. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

West Lothian compared with elsewhere

• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.4 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in West Lothian, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• EH54 alone holds 27% of the takeaway premises in West Lothian (51 of 190), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• West Lothian has the number 3 most takeaway premises of the 8 council areas in Central Scotland and Fife.
• 21% of takeaway premises (39) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Pass rates differ by district: 100% of rated takeaways in EH54 passed, against 83% in EH48.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in West Lothian are EH54 (51), EH48 (46), EH47 (31), out of 8 districts with at least one takeaway.

42% of premises in West Lothian are within 3 miles of the middle of the area and 100% within 10 miles; half are within 3.3 miles. Most kitchens will want two zones, a close one with a low minimum order and a wider one 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.

Which kitchens are in West Lothian

Looking at trading names, West Lothian has 3 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 18 pizza, 15 Chinese-style, 13 Indian-style. This is a rough guide, not a cuisine census.

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.

Chinese or noodle edges ahead of the national rate in West Lothian: 15 of 450 food premises (3.3%), against 2.5% across the UK (FSA, 13 November 2026). 7 of the 15 are in EH54, a district with 51 registered takeaways of every kind. Kebab or doner names are rarer than average: 5 of 450 (1.1%, against 1.7% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in West Lothian: the council's own page

In Scotland, selling food or hot drink between 11pm and 5am needs a late hours catering licence from the council, under section 42 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, whether the food is eaten on the premises or taken away. West Lothian's council licensing pages are here: West Lothian council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

Our late night refreshment licence guide covers England and Wales; the rules in Scotland are different. 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 Lothian and the areas around it

Main places in the West Lothian council area include Livingston, Bathgate and Linlithgow.

Part of Central Scotland and Fife, with Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife and Midlothian.

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

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

All UK locations

Popular in Scotland

• Indian restaurant ordering in Edinburgh
• Pizza shop ordering in Edinburgh
• Indian restaurant ordering in North Lanarkshire
• Kebab shop ordering in Glasgow
• Chicken shop ordering in Glasgow

All of Scotland

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.