Methodology
How the Eat Score works
The Eat Score is yeet.food's own score from 0 to 100, and higher is better. It is not a Just Eat rating: Just Eat has no Eat Score. It is a cautious estimate of how often a takeaway's counted Just Eat ratings are 4–5 stars, minus a penalty when 1–2 star ratings are common.
Just Eat's rating and ours
| Just Eat rating | Eat Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Who calculates it | Just Eat | yeet.food |
| Scale | 1 to 5 | 0 to 100 |
| What it is | A median of order ratings from the previous 12 months, according to Just Eat's help page | A cautious share of 4–5 star ratings, minus a penalty for 1–2 star ratings |
| Few ratings | Can still be 5 out of 5 | Scores lower until there is more evidence |
A median tells you about the middle rating. A takeaway can have a median of 5 while a large minority of its customers rate it 1 or 2 stars. The Eat Score is designed to show that minority.
What goes in
Just Eat publishes each restaurant's rating as a count of ratings in five buckets, from 1 star to 5 stars (half-star ratings are grouped into these buckets). Just Eat also reports a larger total that includes ratings outside the counted sample. The Eat Score uses only the counted ratings, as Just Eat's rating does. It uses no written reviews.
The current snapshot was taken on 2026-09-26: 75,936 UK takeaways with 7,003,192 counted ratings, out of 39,937,594 in total.
The calculation
- Share of good ratings. Take the share of counted ratings in the 4 and 5 star buckets, and replace it with its Wilson lower bound at 95% confidence (z = 1.96). This is the lowest share the ratings reasonably support, so a takeaway with a handful of ratings cannot top the table on luck.
- Penalty for bad ratings. Do the same for the 1 and 2 star buckets, and subtract half of that lower bound.
- Round and limit. Round to one decimal place and keep the result between 0 and 100.
Worked examples
These are made-up takeaways, calculated exactly as the site does.
A busy takeaway. 170 counted ratings: 128 (75%) in the 4–5 star buckets and 27 (16%) in the 1–2 star buckets. The cautious share of good ratings is 68.3. The cautious share of bad ratings is 11.2, so the penalty is 5.6. Its Eat Score is 68.3 − 5.6 = 62.7. It is also “often terrible”, because 16% of its counted ratings are 1–2 stars. Its median rating could still be 5 out of 5.
A new takeaway. 5 counted ratings, all 4–5 stars. Five good ratings are not much evidence, so the cautious share is only 56.6, and its Eat Score is 56.6. As good ratings accumulate, the score rises towards the real share.
“Often terrible”
A takeaway is flagged “often terrible” when it has at least 20 counted ratings and more than 15% of them are in the 1–2 star buckets, which is more than about one rating in seven. It is yeet.food's editorial label and threshold, not Just Eat's.
What the Eat Score is not
- It is not Just Eat's rating, a mean rating, or a prediction that your order will be good.
- It does not detect fake ratings, and it cannot see why a rating was given.
- It is a dated snapshot of historical ratings, not a live inspection. Restaurants change.
- The buckets group half-star ratings, so “4–5 star” is not an exact count of individual four- and five-star ratings.
- The confidence level, the size of the penalty and the “often terrible” threshold are editorial choices. Different choices would rank some takeaways differently.
- Promotions play no part: a stamp card or discount does not change a takeaway's Eat Score.
Independence
yeet.food is independent data journalism about Just Eat's ratings. It is not affiliated with Just Eat. The ratings come from Just Eat's public ratings data at the snapshot date. Made by Ashley Hindle.