Online ordering system for Worcester takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Worcester: 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 113 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 192 restaurant and café premises in Worcester (pulled 13 November 2026).

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What the food register shows for Worcester

Of the 829 food businesses registered in Worcester, 113 are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 192 are restaurants, cafés or canteens (Food Standards Agency register). For takeaway premises, Worcester ranks 11th of the 30 councils the FSA lists in the West Midlands.

Restaurants and cafés (192) outnumber takeaways (113), but takeaways are still about 14% of the 829 food premises of every kind that Worcester registers.

Per head of population that is 10.6 takeaway premises for every 10,000 residents (106,954 people in the ONS mid-2025 estimate), above the UK figure of 9.1 and 8.5 in the West Midlands. Premises also serve commuters and visitors, so busy centres run higher.

Hygiene results for takeaways

On hygiene, 62% of the 100 rated takeaway premises in Worcester hold a 5 and 4% sit at 0 to 2; the England average for a 5 is 62%. In the West Midlands as a whole, 57.8% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Worcester is above its region.

12 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 59 (52%) 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.

Cuisines on the Worcester register

As a rough guide to the mix (trading names only, not a cuisine census), 4 cuisine words reach 10 premises in Worcester: 22 pizza, 11 Chinese-style, 10 kebab 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.

Kebab or doner is the cuisine word that sets Worcester apart. It appears in 11 of the area's 305 food premises (3.6%), where the UK rate is 1.7%, or 2.1 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 9 of the 11 are in WR1, a district with 43 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 9 rated kebab or doner-named premises, 44% hold a 5, against 62.0% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Worcester. If you run a kebab 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 305 (1.3%, against 2.2% 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, WR1 has the most takeaway premises in Worcester (43), followed by WR4 (20) and WR2 (17).

100% of Worcester's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.3 miles, so a kitchen can usually cover its patch with one postcode-based zone; a short collection time is the easiest thing to promise. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

Local patterns in Worcester

• Worcester has 3.0 times as many takeaway premises as Malvern Hills (38), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• WR1 alone holds 38% of the takeaway premises in Worcester (43 of 113), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Worcester has the most takeaway premises of the 6 council areas in Worcestershire.
• Restaurants and cafés here do much better on hygiene ratings than takeaways: 79.8% hold a 5 against 62% for takeaways.
• 11% of takeaway premises (12) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.

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

Worcester and the areas around it

Main places in the Worcester council area include Worcester (about 105,500 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Worcestershire, with Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Wychavon and Wyre Forest.

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

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Pizza, Chinese takeaways, Kebab shops, Fish and chips, 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.