WeChat Order Food: Hotels, Street Stalls, and Group Buys
Why WeChat order food is now a survival trick for city life Last summer in Shanghai and a few other Chinese cities, hotels started doing something smart and odd at the same time: they took their hotel kitchens out to the curb. From Shanghai to Henan and Zhejiang, hotel chefs kept cooking the same menus, but vendors re‑branded counters as “community canteens,” set up livestreams, or opened WeChat order groups to reach locals when corporate banquets dried up. At Purple Mountain, hot dishes reportedly sell out within an hour; one hotel manages six WeChat order groups, each capped at 500 people. Old-timers like Mr. Zhu, 75, say the food’s slightly pricey but handy — “many home dishes are hard to cook, so I buy for convenience” — and see hotels serving the public as a natural step forward. ...