# TikTok expands beyond video with restaurant guides and payment plans

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/from-restaurant-guides-to-payments-heres-how-tiktok-is-building-a-super-app/
- Published: 2026-10-31T15:41:57+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-31T15:47:31+00:00
- Original publisher: TechCrunch
- Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/31/tiktoks-road-to-becoming-a-super-app/
- Topics: Culture, Food, Software, Technology, Trending, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- TikTok has added a restaurant discovery guide.
- Its guide draws on more than 40 million posts and comments.
- The company is also exploring payments and money transfers.

## Summary

TikTok is adding services beyond short videos as it moves towards a “super app”: a single platform for a wide range of digital activities. Its latest addition is a restaurant guide, while reported plans for money transfers and existing shopping and discovery features point to a broader effort to keep users inside the app.

The “Must Eat” guide uses more than 40 million TikTok posts and comments to recommend restaurants, with filters for city, cuisine, price, rating and location. TikTok has also developed local discovery, search, games and a FIFA World Cup hub, and its TikTok Pay service is available for Shop purchases in Southeast Asia. A money-transfer feature has been reported as in development, while TikTok has applied to Brazil’s central bank to offer lending and payment services; whether the super-app model will catch on beyond China remains uncertain.

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