Rider rest hubs where restaurants cluster
Spots where restaurants cluster, for rider rest hubs.
What it does
Every quarter: the spots in your city with the most restaurants within 500 m, as places for rider rest hubs (shade, water, charging), ranked by xMap AI, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in São Paulo, find shopping malls, food courts and restaurants in the area, count the restaurants and fast food restaurants within 500 m of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 20, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 8, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Riders wait where restaurants are. Rest hubs there give shade and water and cut idle time.
Who it is for
Food delivery & quick commerce. Delivery apps, quick commerce and courier operations signing restaurants and shops, placing dark stores and keeping riders safe and on time. Every use case for food delivery & quick commerce
Best use cases
- A delivery app
- A city street design team
- A rider welfare programme
What each run gives you
- A map
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Busy restaurant spotsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Restaurants within 500 mxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Best 20 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Score each spot with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 8 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
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- Well-loved restaurants that likely do not deliver yet: Well-loved restaurants likely without delivery, with the owner.
- Where to put the next dark store: Blocks with many people and few shops, for the next dark store.
- Campuses with the most students nearby, for promos: Campuses ranked by the students living nearby, for promos.
- Field sales routes to sign up new restaurants: New independent restaurants shared between your field reps in the best visiting order.
- Independent grocers, butchers and fruit shops for quick commerce: Independent grocers, butchers and fruit shops graded as partners.
- Office clusters for a lunch subscription: Office clusters for a lunch subscription, with the office manager.