Amazon has been known to deliver great service when it comes to online shopping, with customers getting orders in a few days, and some on the same day. Now, the tech giant has cooked up another awesome service to make its customer's lives easier - the Prime Now one-hour restaurant delivery system, NRN reports.
Cleverly tag-lined "SKIP THE TRIP. ONE-HOUR DELIVERY," here's what you need to know about Prime Now, Amazon's one-hour restaurant delivery system:
- Prime Now is exclusively for Amazon prime members
- Prime members simply have to use the Prime Now app to browse through the restaurants offering delivery service, place an order, pay through their Amazon accounts and wait for an hour for the order to arrive, according to Food Beast
- Amazon's one-hour restaurant delivery service is available only in select Seattle ZIP codes - for now
- Currently, there is a limited number of restaurants offering delivery through the app
- Local participating restaurants includeWild Ginger, Cactus, Skillet Diner, Marination, Re:public and Green Leaf Vietnamese Restaurant, to name a few
- GeekWire reportsthat Amazon is planning to expand the one-hour restaurant delivery service in a few days
- There are no menu markups
- Amazon has a commission per order, with the percentage undisclosed
The largest online retailer in the United States made the Prime Now announcement Tuesday, saying that Seattle is the first city where the one-hour restaurant delivery service is being tested as part of the Prime Now app delivery-in-hours app, which had been launched the previous month.
Amazon now joins Seattle's increasingly crowded market. The one-hour restaurant delivery service is also reportedly poses a big competition for Peach, a growing startup created by Amazon's former employees. Peach's main service is delivery of pre-set lunches to large office buildings daily. Peach was able to raise $8 million last month from Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital, according to The Seattle Times.
