Online ordering system for Winchester takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Winchester: 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 52 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 275 restaurant and café premises in Winchester (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Winchester

Of the 1,231 food businesses registered in Winchester, 52 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 275 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Winchester ranks 57th of the 64 councils the FSA lists in the South East.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (275 against 52), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Per head of population that is 3.8 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (136,856 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), below the UK figure of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 77.1% of the 48 rated takeaway premises in Winchester hold a 5 and 0% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62% (+15.1 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Winchester is above its region.

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 22 (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.

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

By postcode district, SO23 has the most takeaway premises in Winchester (22), followed by SO22 (12) and SO21 (4).

Half of the food premises in Winchester are within 1.7 miles of the centre, 54% within 3 miles and 77% 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 Winchester

• Eastleigh, 7 miles away, has 82 takeaway premises against 52 in Winchester, so Winchester customers have fewer local rivals.
• Winchester leans towards restaurants and cafés: 5.3 for every takeaway, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Sit-down kitchens adding collection and delivery are the growth route.
• SO23 alone holds 42% of the takeaway premises in Winchester (22 of 52), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Winchester has the number 11 most takeaway premises of the 13 council areas in Hampshire.
• 8% of takeaway premises (4) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

Cuisines on the Winchester register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), one cuisine word reaches 10 premises in Winchester: 12 pizza.

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 Winchester show a spread rather than a theme: pizza leads with 12 premises (3.7%), 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: 1 of 327 (0.3%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Winchester: 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. Winchester's council publishes its process here: Winchester 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.

Winchester and the areas around it

Main places in the Winchester council area include Winchester (about 48,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Hampshire, with Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and Hart.

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

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

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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.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.