97% of the records in my Croydon food business list have no website recorded.

Croydon is the biggest list of the five. It holds 538 independent cafés, restaurants, pubs and takeaways across CR0, CR2 and CR9, which is more than Bromley and Beckenham put together (465). 522 of those records have no website recorded.

It is also the most takeaway-heavy. 197 of the 538 are takeaways, 37% of the list, against 29% in Orpington and between 18% and 21% in the other three towns.

Croydon by type

Croydon: independent food and drink businesses by type

Type	On the list	No website recorded
Cafés and restaurants	298	289
Takeaways	197	190
Pubs and bars	43	43

Not one of the 43 pubs and bars has a site on record, and 190 of the 197 takeaways have none either. That leaves the 298 cafés and restaurants, of which 9 have a site on record.

Where the Croydon businesses are

Croydon: by postcode district

District	On the list	No website recorded
CR0	428	413
CR2 (South Croydon)	103	102
CR9	7	7

Croydon: the busiest roads on the list

Road	On the list	No website recorded
George Street	48	46
High Street	44	40
Lower Addiscombe Road	41	38
London Road	38	37
South End	31	30
Brighton Road	22	22
Wickham Road	21	19

Read the road counts with care. Two single addresses hold 27 of the 538: 15 are registered at 99 George Street and 12 at 14 to 26 High Street. Several traders at one address usually means a food hall or market, where each trader registers separately. The list has 499 distinct addresses for 538 businesses, so the number of separate premises is lower than the headline count.

The limited companies

59 of the 538 are active limited companies on the Companies House register, more than in any other town on the list. I looked for a website from the company name for each and found one for 16, though 3 of those matches are flagged for a second look. So 43 Croydon limited companies have none that I could find. The other 479 are sole traders or businesses I could not match, and the list shows a site for none of them. That is a gap in my searching, not a finding about those businesses.

What this count does not tell you

The Food Standards Agency register has no website field, and all 538 entries here come from it. The 522 records with no website recorded do not establish how many businesses have no website; that number may be lower. The register’s café and restaurant group also takes in golf and sports clubs, leisure centres and church halls, and a few entries will have closed since I pulled it in September.

Nothing here says how good any website is, how fast it loads on a phone, or whether the Google profile is claimed.

What I would do in Croydon

With 197 takeaways on the list, the first thing a customer needs is a menu they can read on a phone and a number they can tap. That is the website. The AI receptionist is for the times the phone rings during a rush and nobody can pick it up. A claimed Google Business Profile ties the two together, and online booking suits the cafés and restaurants that take tables.

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Nearby

West Wickham’s list has 65 businesses, Beckenham’s 163 and Bromley’s 302, so Croydon’s is bigger than any of them, and bigger than Orpington’s 242 as well.

These Croydon figures come from the list I built in September 2026: the Food Standards Agency hygiene register (pulled 20 September 2026), with the Companies House register (1 September 2026) used to find the limited companies. Across all five towns the same list holds 1,310 independent food and drink business records, 1,240 with no website recorded. When I looked for limited companies’ websites I ignored Facebook and Instagram pages, so a business with only one of those counts as having no website. If I have your business wrong, tell me and I will correct it.

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