Manchester tops takeaway orders

26th June 2008, 11:53am

Manchester orders more takeaways per household than any other city in the UK, according to a national survey by the UK’s online takeaway providers.

www.just-eat.co.uk found that the city averages 2.9 takeaways a week per household. Four of the top five cities in the top 10 to order the most takeaways are Northern cities, whilst three Southern cities make the top 10.

Nationally, 33.5% of the public had one takeaway a week, whereas nearly a quarter ordered a takeaway twice a week.

Some 14.6% of people claimed to order a takeaway more than three times a week, with 0.6% of the people questioned claimed to purchase a takeaway daily.

And a fifth of people said they ordered less than one takeaway per week, which brought the average down for many of the cities.

Other cities that were ranked in the top 10 takeaway ordering list were York, averaging 2.72 takeaways a week, Liverpool, with 2.71, and London with an average of 2.69 takeaways ordered.

Ash Ali, marketing manager at Just-Eat.co.uk, commented on the reasons behind the survey: "We wanted to gain an insight into the Nation's most takeaway crazy regions, and we are really surprised by the results. We have recently hit 10,000 members in the UK following on from our success in Europe, and have serviced over 40,000 takeaway requests in the last month alone."

Although, Ash was rather surprised with the results: "I would have expected the results to show the exact opposite, as Londoners are perceived to lead such a hectic lifestyle, but with cities such as Manchester and Liverpool on the rise economically, the scales may have tipped."

www.just-eat.co.uk provides an average of more than 30,000 meals for European customers in any given 24 hours. 

Over 1900 people took part in the survey.

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