Meituan

Meituan is a Chinese local services platform combining food delivery, restaurant discovery, hotel booking and a wide range of local commerce in one app.

Its scale in delivery is the core business, but the platform functions more broadly as the layer between consumers and local merchants — for many small businesses, presence on Meituan is how customers find them at all.

For merchants the economics require attention: commission plus promotional discounting is a substantial share of order value, and volume through the platform is not automatically profitable volume.