Meituan Waimai offers restaurants a free AI store manager

Meituan Waimai will give restaurant merchants across China a free AI store manager built on its Miaoshou business assistant. The tool diagnoses store performance, runs inspections, manages menus and helps new outlets launch; tens of thousands of merchants and 200+ chains took part in trials.

• Assistant covers diagnostics, inspections, menu management and new-store setup
• Trials involved tens of thousands of small merchants and 200+ chains
• One shop saw weekly orders rise over 30% after menu and promo changes
• Order prep time at a partner store fell from about 18 to 8 minutes