Pizza Chicken And Kebab Express

This West Street takeaway in Erith has run under several variants of its name — Pizza Chicken & Kebab Express on the older sign, Express Pizza & Kebab on the newer Just Eat listing — but the operating model is unchanged: a halal pizza-kebab-chicken combo unit on the strip of fast-food shops between the railway station and the riverside, aimed at the after-school, after-pub and weekend takeaway trade.

The menu is the wide-net high-street offering — 10- and 12-inch pizzas with the full range of toppings, peri-style chicken in pieces and wings, donner and shish kebabs, burgers, chips boxes and wraps — with meal deals stacking a main, side and drink at a low price-point. Halal certification is the structural difference from some of the older non-halal chicken shops further along the road, and that pulls in trade from the Asian-heritage households across central Erith and Slade Green.

West Street is one of the busier eating strips in the south-east London Borough of Bexley once Belvedere and Bexleyheath are excluded — Erith's redevelopment has concentrated retail and food into a tighter footprint than the town used to support — and the takeaway shares its block with several Indian and Chinese operators that trade off the same passing pavement. For households that order on Just Eat, this is the cheaper end of the pizza-and-kebab market in the postcode.