Online ordering system for Worthing takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Worthing: 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 101 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 235 restaurant and café premises in Worthing (pulled 13 November 2026).

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Worthing's food register in numbers

The Food Standards Agency register has 1,027 food businesses of every kind in Worthing: 101 takeaway or sandwich shop premises, 235 restaurants, cafés or canteens, and the rest in other categories. The South East has 64 councils on the FSA list, and Worthing sits 21st of them for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés outnumber takeaways by more than two to one (235 against 101), so sit-down kitchens that also do collection are a big part of the market.

Set against the ONS mid-2025 population estimate of 113,844, Worthing has 8.9 takeaway premises per 10,000 residents, close to 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 97 takeaway premises with a published rating, 68% hold a 5 and 6.2% are rated 0 to 2. The 5 share is above the 62% average for England (+6.0 points). In the South East as a whole, 65.5% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Worthing is above its region.

4 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 46 (46%) 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.

Worthing compared with elsewhere

• Worthing has 1.7 times as many takeaway premises as Adur (58), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• BN11 alone holds 42% of the takeaway premises in Worthing (42 of 101), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Worthing has the number 2 most takeaway premises of the 7 council areas in West Sussex.
• Hygiene ratings differ by district: 79% of rated takeaways in BN12 hold a 5, against 61% in BN11.

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

The busiest takeaway postcode districts in Worthing are BN11 (42), BN14 (31), BN12 (20), out of 4 districts with at least one takeaway.

100% of Worthing's food premises sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area, and half are within 0.5 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.

Which kitchens are in Worthing

Looking at trading names, Worthing has 3 cuisine words that appear in 10 or more premises: 19 pizza, 13 fish and chip, 10 Chinese-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.

Among trading names on the 13 November 2026 FSA pull, kebab or doner is the one that runs slightly above the UK rate in Worthing: 8 premises, 2.4% against 1.7%. 3 of the 8 are in BN14, a district with 31 registered takeaways of every kind. Chicken or peri-peri names are rarer than average: 3 of 336 (0.9%, against 1.8% across the UK). These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Worthing: 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. Start from the council's licensing section: Worthing council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

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.

Worthing and the areas around it

Main places in the Worthing council area include Worthing (about 111,600 people in the 2021 built-up area, partly in this area).

Part of West Sussex, with Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham and Mid Sussex.

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

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