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AUSTRALIA’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR TAKEAWAY FOOD IN 2026

The top 10 most popular takeaway food in Australia 2026 list.

The top most-sold takeaway dishes in restaurants, eateries, food stores & businesses in Australia in 2026.

Brought to you by Mau, a Senior Digital Marketing Specialist at eDigital.

THE TOP 10 MOST POPULAR TAKEAWAY FOOD IN AUSTRALIA IN 2026

Before you find the top 10 most popular takeaway food in Australia in 2026, let me tell you something you have probably been turning a blind eye to…

🚨 You will never build a sustainable business based on takeaway sales. 🚨

• If you use Uber Eats, DoorDash, or Menulog, the 20% to 30% 💸 you pay them for every single order is helping them grow their business, not yours. 🤯
• When you sell using those delivery apps, you are helping them grow their database, not yours. 📊 Yes, that’s right, you cannot request them to transfer your hard-earned takeaway customers’ data to your platform. 🛑
• To get more takeaway sales, you constantly need to advertise more offers 📢 and cut more profit 💥.

Takeaway is NOT your business. 🍔❌

You are in the business of making people feel amazing ✨ (the experience). 🎉

• You sell an experience! 💯
• You do NOT sell food. 🍕🚫

Offering yummy food is not enough if you want to make a profit. 💵

Many can offer a tasty dish 🍲, but extremely few are offering an amazing service. 🌟

The better you become at making people feel amazing, the easier it will be to charge a premium for the experience you offer 🏅 (Premium price = profit driver). 💰

Let that sink in for a minute. ⏳💭

High dependency on takeaway sales is happening to business owners who have not had the skills and knowledge to train their staff and teams in remarkable customer service. 🏆

And I do not blame them. 🙅‍♂️

In general, the service you get at restaurants and food outlets in Australia is s*t** 😖 (with a few exceptions counted on half of one hand’s fingers. ✋

As consumers are not seeing the value of sitting at a restaurant, they either:

• 🍳 Cook at home
• 🛒 Buy pre-cooked meals at supermarkets
• 🍟 Buy takeaway

All these cut the massive opportunity you have to make a BIG profit 💥💸.

The solution

I can train you and your team on how to deliver a truly unique and remarkable experience that will keep customers for years talking about it.

You will also learn:

• Lower customer acquisition costs.
• Minimise dependency on food delivery apps and paid media.
• Build a marketing engine with marketing assets and channels you fully own.
• How to craft a marketing plan that boosts your food sales and customer lifetime value.

Contact us today and book your training.

THE TOP 10 TAKEAWAY FOOD AUSTRALIANS ARE EATING IN 2026

Now let’s talk about takeaway food trends in Australia… 🇦🇺🍔

Are you guessing pizza 🍕, curry 🍛, or Chinese 🥡 are the most popular takeaways in Australia?

According to the below food industry sources 📊, there is something different 🍽️ getting the Australian taste buds. 🤤

Sadly, there are low signs of organic food or healthy food becoming mainstream.

Online apps and food delivery services are making junk food more accessible as confirmed by the University of Sydney research.

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According to eDigital’s 2026 Australian Take Away Food Trends Report:

10. Burgers

Takeaway lovers are using some of the top 25 healthy food hashtags on Instagram

9. Sushi (Japanese Food)

Food marketers are using some of the top 25 food hashtags on Instagram

8. Lamb Doner Kebab (Turkish food)

Takeaway business owners are using some of the top 25 food hashtags on TikTok

7. Dim Sum and Honey Chicken (Chinese food)

Takeaway lovers are using some of the top 25 healthy food hashtags on Instagram

6. Chicken Pad Thai (Thai Food)

Popular takeaway logos: new MacDonald’s logo – new KFC logo

5. Pizza (Italian food)

Takeaway business owners are using the best food allergen guide

4. Burritos, tacos, quesadillas (Mexican food)

Popular this month: the top 25 most popular vegan food hashtags on Instagram

3. Aussie Meat Pies

There’s nothing like a Classic Aussie Meat Pie to keep you warm on a cold day! Grab one baked fresh or take a few home frozen to bake when you need a cozy Aussie easy meal.

Food marketers are using some of the top 25 food hashtags on Instagram

2. Butter chicken & garlic naan (Indian food)

What is a ordering a butter chicken takeaway without the best garlic naan in Australia?

Well, I’ll tell you what it is: absolutely nothing! 😱

Butter chicken without garlic naan bread is like Jock Zonfrillo and Vicky Bhogal without spices!

It’s like a shrimp without the barbie, like Vegemite without the toast, like a kangaroo without the hops 🍻.

It’s an empty, sad, and misguided attempt at a meal that leaves you questioning your life choices.

In Australia, garlic naan is the bread to rule all breads.

You don’t just dip it into your butter chicken, you savour it. You cradle that warm, pillowy, garlic-infused perfection like it’s a newborn puppy 🐶, gently breaking off pieces and dunking them into that creamy, spicy, deliciously indulgent butter chicken sauce, like the culinary gods intended. 👨‍🍳✨

Without garlic naan, a butter chicken takeaway isn’t butter chicken, it’s just sad, lonely chicken in a pool of sauce.

Who wants to eat that?

It’s like having a barbecue with no snags, a beach without a surfboard, or a footy game without the “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!”, it’s just wrong! 🇦🇺

Now, some brave souls out there might say, “Oh, but I’ll just use rice!” 😑 Rice?!

Who are you, the person who orders a “flat white” without the milk?

Garlic naan is the hero of the dish.

It’s the Batman to your butter chicken’s Robin.

It’s what makes the whole thing complete.

So, if you’re not pairing your butter chicken with garlic naan in Australia, then you’re doing it all wrong.

What are you even doing with your life?

You might as well be drinking flat lemonade on a hot summer day and calling it a cocktail. 🤦‍♀️

But, no worries. If you’re looking for the ultimate naan to pair with that butter chicken masterpiece, we’ve got your back.

Hit us up, and let’s get your takeaway food game to the next level. Your butter chicken deserves the best! 🔥

So, what’s it gonna be? Naan or nothing? 😎

Takeaway food is an important component for Australian restaurants and food chains as it not only boosts revenue but also allows them to adapt to changing customer preferences, market trends, and unforeseen challenges.

Having a well-crafted takeaway food menu provides convenience to customers while expanding a restaurant’s reach and potential for sales growth.

Takeaway business owners are using some of the top 25 food hashtags on TikTok

1. Fish and chips

Fish and chip takeaway stores are an institution on street corners from Hobart to Cooktown but according to some seafood experts, Australian chippers need to lift their frying game.

A Mekong Delta (Vietnamese) catfish commonly known as “Basa” is the most ubiquitous battered fish on “fish and chips” menus.

Aussie Fish and Chips is the low-end takeaway food offer, predicated on by the cheapest possible form of boneless white fish available.

Popular Takeaway Fish and Chips in Australia:

• Hooked on Middleton Beach (WA)

You may also want to check DoorDash’s Delivery Trends Report:

merchants.doordash.com/en-au/blog/australia-online-ordering-habits

Popular this month: the top 25 most popular vegan food hashtags on Instagram

AUSTRALIAN TAKEAWAY FOOD STATISTICS

According to research firm Roy Morgan, over 17 million Australians eat takeaway food and despite the burgeoning food choices available in recent years, McDonald’s junk food remains the most visited fast food restaurant in Australia.

Over half of Australians aged 14+ (52.7%) eat McDonald’s in an average of six months while traditional fast food rival KFC is second at 40.8%.

Nearly a third of Australians eat Subway, Hungry Jack’s or Domino’s Pizza food in an average of six months and Domino’s Pizza is now the third most popular restaurant for the upcoming Generation Z.

Note: Advocacy group Parents Voice crowned Hungry Jacks as having Australia’s worst junk food digital marketing campaigns.

Other leading fast food outlets include Red Rooster, and the reigning 2017 Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Award Winner Grill’d. Over 10% of Australians eat Red Rooster or Grill’d in an average of six months.

Food marketers are using some of the top 25 food hashtags on Instagram

Things have not changed that much in the past years.

Aussies’ addition to fast food from almost the same quick-service restaurants has not changed.

Note: takeaway food and home-delivered food are counted separately by Roy Morgan research.

Australian home delivery food stats by Roy Morgan in May 2021

5.5 million Australians aged 14+ (26.5%) used meal delivery services last year, up from 3.9 million (19.0%) in 2019 and 3.3 million (16.3%) in 2018.

Women are more likely to use meal delivery services (27.9%) than men (24.9%) with the highest usage for both genders among those aged 25-34 with 45.2% of women and 43.1% of men in that age group using the services. Women are more likely to use the services in all age groups.

City-dwellers (31.6%) are far more likely to have had their meals delivered than those in country areas (16.6%).

Uber Eats remains the market leader and is now used by 12.8% of Australians including over 1-in-5 of both Generation Z and Millennials. Other leading meal delivery services such as Menulog, DoorDash and HelloFresh have also seen significant increases in usage of their services.

✔️ Most read today: the top 25 most popular food hashtags on TikTok

“The massive increase in the junk takeaway food trend in Australia is concerning. Takeaway food delivery apps will learn specific consumer tastes (fat levels, salt levels, sugar levels), create a profile for each consumer and potentially market them accordingly, making junk food or highly processed foods stickier and harder to keep away. The result? increase in obesity and chronic diseases. I feel sorry, especially for overweight kids due to their parents’ poor takeaway food choices. If being healthy is your top priority, the action is simple: buy fresh organic food and cook it at home. Tip: Many organic vegetables can be eaten raw, saving you the cooking”

Mau

WHAT IS THE MOST SOLD UBER EATS FOOD IN AUSTRALIA

According to Uber newsroom, Asian flavours dominated Australia’s favourites in 2020 – Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian and Vietnamese all entrenched in the top 10 most popular cuisines nationally.

THE MOST LOVED TAKEAWAY RESTAURANT IN AUSTRALIA BY CUSTOMERS

Roy Morgan’s 2020 Quick Service Restaurant Customer Satisfaction Award – Winners are:

1. Guzman y Gomez (winner)
2. Crust Pizza
3. Grill’d
4. Mad Mex
5. (equal) Subway & Soul Origin

Popular this month: the top 25 most popular food hashtags on Instagram – ranking list.

“You do not necessarily need to follow the trend of opening a popular junk takeaway food business. If all the trends, data and insights are telling you to open  – for example – a new “fish and chips” store to make money, think about the contribution are you making to your community. Do they need another junk food store in town? If – on the contrary – you are passionate about organic or vegan food, but the data tells you there is no market for it, you can start small with a food truck/van and once you educate the market about the benefits of your new healthy offering, you can scale up”

Mau

In Australia, cooking at home is seen more as a chore than as a hobby; leaving some few – who adventure in cooking at home – to eat quite depressing “homemade” dishes.

The above homemade depressing dish was presented by a high-paid Aussie politician on his Instagram account.

Restaurant owners are using this best Allergen Guide sheet template for food and restaurant business owners.

Consume your takeaway food

According to the latest Household Food Waste Study by CQU University researchers, Australians waste 0.07 kg of takeaway food/home delivery per person per week. This could indicate that a whopping 91 million kg of takeaway/home delivery food is thrown into the bin in Australia every year. 

WORLD’S TOP TAKEAWAY FOOD

Deliveroo’s most popular takeaway food – worldwide:

1. Pad Thaï from Thaï at Home in Paris
2. Cheeseburger from Five Guys in London
3. Sushi Lovers Poke Bowl from CALI-POKE in Dubai
4. Burrito from Boojum in Dublin
5. Bubble Tea from Tenren’s Tea in Hong Kong
6. Grilled Chicken Burrito from Guzman Y Gomez in Sydney
7. Burrito from Gonzalez & Co in Barcelona
8. Beef Burger from Tommi’s Burger Joint in Berlin
9. Poke Bowl from Temakery in Amsterdam
10. 2 Hot Wings® from KFC in Brighton Related: the new KFC logo

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💬 Users’ comments about this “Australia’s top 10 most sold takeaway food” ranking list:

• “Knowing Australia’s Top 10 Takeaway Foods won’t unlock Food Marketing Nirvana. Mate🍣 just sell sushi and forget this bloody list exists. Every basic mum with a AUD$2000 pram paid with her husband’s credit card will demolish your California rolls at Westfield while pretending it’s a personality trait while her kids scream for Maccas” 🍔 💳😭 Jack Williams

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🎬 Conclusion

Australia’s top 10 takeaway foods will have you craving more than just a snack. 😋🍔

Whether you’re serving up fish and chips, burgers, or something a little more exotic like sushi burritos with Vegemite (because why not?), the takeaway game is hotter than ever. 🚀🔥

But hey, just because you’ve got a killer menu doesn’t mean people will find you between bites of their nachos.

Want to make sure your Aussie takeaway business is the one that’s always at the top of the order list? 📈🍕

Contact us, and we’ll help you spice up your digital marketing and social media marketing strategy, so you’re not just another fish in the takeaway sea, you’re the shark. 🦈💥

Let’s make your business as irresistible as that late-night pizza craving!

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