Major listed companies in catering O2O industry:At present, the listed companies in domestic catering O2O industry mainly include Meituan (03690.HK), Hungry, and 02013.HK.
Core data of this article:Online order volume; Catering O2O market scale; O2O penetration rate of catering; market share
1. Overview of catering O2O industry
— — Definition and classification: catering O2O= catering +O2O
Catering O2O refers to the use of the Internet to divert online users offline to bring customers to catering businesses and increase income; Or drain offline customers to online for maintenance or customer relationship management, so as to prolong the customer’s consumption cycle and increase the number of customers’ consumption.
Catering O2O= catering +O2O, catering *O2O, internetization of traditional catering and materialization of internet catering. Traditional catering enterprises realize the closed loop of omni-channel marketing and sales, payment and customer management system after integration through internet tools, and finally realize information management and improve overall revenue.
Catering O2O has two meanings. One is Internet catering, which means that Internet enterprises provide Internet applications for catering enterprises, mainly at the marketing level, such as group buying network. The other is that catering enterprises actively embrace the Internet and develop Internet applications, which means that catering enterprises actively apply Internet products. The classification of catering online to offline mainly includes:

2) Analysis of the industrial chain of catering O2O industry: based on the traditional industrial chain, it enables the inquiry, reservation, queuing, ordering and distribution of catering services.
The industrial chain of China catering O2O is based on the traditional industrial chain, which includes raw material processing chain and supply chain services. The catering O2O industry that empowers and upgrades the traditional catering industry is reflected in the inquiry, reservation, queuing, ordering and distribution of catering services.
The network awareness of online users and offline merchants in China continues to increase, and the number of catering O2O websites or applications that are at the core of the industrial chain and connect online users and offline merchants is increasing rapidly, and the user experience is also improving day by day; Together with other enterprises that provide basic services such as payment, CRM and closed-loop verification, the industrial chain of China catering O2O industry is becoming more and more perfect, which has prepared a good foundation for the rapid development of the market.

2. The development process of China catering O2O industry: the market is constantly evolving, and online and offline resources are highly integrated.
The catering O2O platform has developed from the traditional review platform to the comprehensive platform, and has undergone the transformation from version 1.0 to version 5.0. This is an evolving market, and the future development will give birth to more vertical, subdivided, professional and personalized catering O2O platforms.

3. Analysis of the development status of catering O2O industry in China.
— — Overall situation of the industry: catering O2O rebounded strongly in the post-epidemic era.
(1) The overall online volume of the catering industry in China: a strong rebound under the epidemic.
In the face of the epidemic, catering has shown a stronger ability to resist risks. In particular, online catering orders showed a strong rebound trend. According to the data of Meituan, the overall online catering orders in February 2020 decreased by 91.6% compared with the same period of last year. The overall online order volume in March decreased by 59.8% year-on-year; In April, the overall online order volume began to recover rapidly, and the growth rate turned positive for the first time in May. Since then, it has been climbing steadily and achieved a year-on-year increase of 107.9% in December.

(2) The market size of China catering O2O industry: rapid growth.
According to Kaidu data, China’s O2O market has grown rapidly in recent years. In 2020, the size of the O2O market reached 2.63 trillion yuan. Combined with the data of Meituan, the proportion of O2O catering at home and O2O catering at the store, the scale of China’s catering O2O market is close to 1.87 trillion yuan in 2020. It accounts for 71.1% of the entire O2O market.

Note: The market size and proportion of catering O2O are calculated.
(3) The penetration rate of O2O market in China catering industry: it continues to rise.
In terms of penetration rate, the O2O penetration rate of China’s catering industry has been singing all the way. In 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, the penetration rate of catering O2O in the whole catering industry market accelerated to 47.37%.

Note: catering O2O penetration rate = catering O2O market size/catering market size *100%.
2) China catering O2O market segment 1: catering ingredients O2O.
— — Food and beverage supply chain: per capita consumption is insufficient, and penetration rate is still not high.
According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2020, China’s catering revenue totaled 3.95 trillion yuan. According to the calculation that the cost of raw materials accounts for 42%, the market size of catering ingredients supply chain is about 1.66 trillion yuan. At the same time, although China is the second largest catering market in the world, the per capita catering consumption in 2020 is only 21% of that in the United States, and there is still much room for improvement.

At the same time, there are a series of problems in the traditional food supply chain market, such as scattered traders, opaque market information, lack of control over the quality of food, and high cost of food. Therefore, upgrading the food supply chain with the Internet has become a hot entrepreneurial direction in 2014. After six years of development, the penetration rate of internet plus food supply chain industry is still not high. There are two main reasons: it is difficult for Internet solutions serving end consumers to meet the high-quality requirements of consumers and the profit requirements of start-ups at the same time. Internet solutions that serve enterprise users are difficult to truly land in the whole industry.
(2) O2O operation mode of catering back-end procurement: light assets+total assets+solutions.
There are three main modes of O2O operation in catering back-end procurement: heavy mode (self-operated mode), light mode (platform mode) and solution mode.

3) China catering O2O market segment 2: catering take-out O2O.
By the end of 2020, the number of take-away users nationwide was close to 500 million, and the total order volume reached 17.12 billion, up 7.5% year-on-year; The transaction scale increased by 14.8% year-on-year, reaching 835.2 billion, 175 billion more than the 660 billion predicted by previous institutions. Food and beverage take-out accounts for 80% of home service in life service O2O industry. At the same time, after the outbreak, consumers stayed at home for epidemic prevention, and restaurant food was generally shut down, which became the choice of catering businesses. Many well-known catering enterprises quickly made adjustments, optimized their operation modes, embraced third-party take-out platforms and switched to the online market. In summary, the epidemic will greatly boost the development of food and beverage take-out O2O, so the market size of food and beverage take-out O2O is expected to exceed 700 billion yuan in 2020.

4) China catering O2O market segment 3: Arrival catering O2O market.
According to the analysis of China catering O2O industry market, the arrival business accounts for 39% of the O2O platform market, including 60% of home catering. Based on this, it is calculated that the market size of China catering O2O industry will be 336.9 billion yuan in 2020.

4. Analysis of the competition pattern of China catering O2O market.
— — Regional competition pattern: Guangdong has the largest number of catering O2O enterprises.
In terms of regional distribution, Guangdong Province is currently the province with the largest number of catering O2O-related enterprises in China, accounting for more than 24.8% among the top ten provinces and cities, followed by Shanghai and Shandong with 11.7%, 11.5% and 11.2% respectively.

2) Enterprise competition pattern: common development in many fields.
— — O2O platform for catering ingredients: National, regional and vertical platforms are developing together.
At present, the representative platforms of O2O, a national catering ingredient, are American food and an acre of land; The representative platforms of regional catering ingredients O2O include small farmers and Debao. The representative platforms of vertical catering ingredients O2O are Worry-Free Restaurant, Song Dishes and Vegetable Dongpo.


(2) The competition pattern of China catering take-out O2O market: the share of US group take-out exceeds 60%.
According to the "Analysis Report on the Development of China Takeaway Industry in Q2 2020" released by Trustdata, by the first half of 2020, the market share of Meituan Takeaway had reached 68.2%, and the proportion of hungry people was 25.4%.

(3) The competition pattern of China’s in-store catering O2O industry: Meituan comments on the first market share.
(3)-1 Competition echelon of O2O industry in China: Meituan reviews the market share and ranks first.
Meituan commented that the GTV market share of the restaurant catering business ranked first. Meituan commented on the solid traffic base of catering service users in the store, and based on years of experience in the industry, it gradually consolidated its leading edge in the industry. In the future, the competition in the catering market will continue to focus on user service and business empowerment, so as to improve the operational efficiency of the catering industry.

(3)-2 The market share of enterprises in the O2O catering industry in China is mainly based on the US Mission and public comments.
In China, the O2O industry of restaurant-to-store catering is mainly based on US delegations and public comments. Founded in 2003, Public Comment is the earliest local life information platform in China. At the beginning, it only aggregated user evaluation and business information, and began to enter the group buying territory in 2010; Also in this year, the US Mission was launched. In 2020, the restaurant catering share of Meituan Review was 63.4%. Followed by word of mouth, the store share accounted for 25.3%.

5. Development prospect and trend forecast of catering O2O industry in China.
— — Forecast on the Development Prospect of Catering O2O in China
(1) The development prospect of China catering O2O industry under the compound growth rate: the market scale is expected to approach 1.87 trillion yuan in 2026.
The compound annual growth rate of China catering O2O is 10% from 2021 to 2026, and the market size is expected to approach 1.87 trillion yuan by 2026.

(2) The development prospect of China catering O2O industry under the penetration rate: the market scale is expected to reach 2.4 trillion yuan in 2026.
According to the penetration rate of catering O2O in the whole catering industry, it is assumed that the market penetration rate of catering O2O will reach 40% by 2026, and its market scale is expected to reach 2.4 trillion yuan by 2026.

2) Analysis of the development trend of catering O2O industry in China.
(1) The development trend of in-store catering O2O: consumption recovery under normal epidemic situation.
The development trend of in-store catering O2O is mainly reflected in the upgrade of in-store catering service and the recovery of consumption under the normal epidemic situation.

(2) the development trend of O2O in home catering: quality, technology and new retail development of take-away food.
The development trend of O2O in home catering is mainly manifested in the quality of take-away, the technology of take-away and the new retail of take-away.

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