Online ordering system for Woking takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Woking: 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 78 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 180 restaurant and café premises in Woking (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Woking's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 795 food businesses of every kind in Woking: 78 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 180 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South East has 64 councils on the FSA list, and Woking sits 34th of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (180 against 78), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 106,197, Woking has 7.3 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, below the UK rate of 9.1 and 6.4 in the South East. Commuters and visitors use these premises too, so the ratio is a guide, not a count of customers.

Hygiene results for takeaways

Of 76 takeaway premises with a published rating, 40.8% hold a 5 and 6.6% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is below the 62% average for England (-21.2 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Woking is below its region.

2 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 31 (40%) 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.

Which kitchens are in Woking

Looking at trading names, Woking has one cuisine word that appear in 10 or more premises: 18 pizza. 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.

Pizza is the cuisine word that sets Woking apart. It appears in 18 of the area's 258 food premises (7.0%), where the UK rate is 4.6%, or 1.5 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 12 of the 18 are in GU21, a district with 52 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 18 rated pizza-named premises, 61% hold a 5, against 40.8% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Woking. If you run a pizza 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. Indian or curry names are rarer than average: 4 of 258 (1.6%, against 2.2% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Woking are GU21 (52), KT14 (12), GU22 (10), out of 4 districts with at least one takeaway.

Food premises in Woking are close together: 90% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1 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.

Woking compared with elsewhere

• GU21 alone holds 67% of the takeaway premises in Woking (52 of 78), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Woking has the number 4 most takeaway premises of the 11 council areas in Surrey.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 63.1% hold a 5 against 40.8% for takeaways.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 50% of rated takeaways in KT14 hold a 5, against 38% in GU21.
• Woking has 1.5 times as many takeaway premises as Runnymede (52), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.

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

Woking and the areas around it

Main places in the Woking council area include Woking (about 75,700 people in the 2021 built-up area, partly in this area).

Part of Surrey, with Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead and Runnymede.

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.