Amazon is getting its grub on permanently. Extending a food delivery perk that was originally good for a year, Amazon and Grubhub announced Wednesday that Prime members in the U.S.… Read More
Grocery delivery company Instacart has settled with the Seattle Office of Labor Standards for alleged violations of the city’s Gig Worker Paid Sick and Safe Time Ordinance.
The Seattle City Council today unanimously approved rules providing paid sick leave for food-delivery and other on-demand, app-based gig economy workers. The city appears to be the first in the… Read More
Three years after giving up on its own food delivery service, Amazon is trying a new tactic, partnering with delivery company Grubhub and offering free, one-year Grubhub+ memberships as part… Read More
Delivery drivers for Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies left the Seattle City Council holding the bag this week — or, 400 bags — in a protest aimed… Read More
New funding: Seattle-based startup Minnow, makers of a contactless food delivery and pickup pod, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The tech: The company’s IoT-enabled Pickup Pods are designed… Read More
It’s tough to run a business dependent on tourism when there are no tourists, and when the places you would show off to the tourists are closed by a global… Read More
Seattle startup Minnow is hoping to capture some of the increased demand for contactless technologies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 3-year-old company just raised a $2.2 million… Read More
A dreaded “reply all” on an email featuring hundreds of people is usually enough to leave you with an upset stomach. But one customer’s message back to Seattle fine dining… Read More
Putting food on the table and supporting hard-hit restaurants and small businesses at the same time may be one of the bigger concerns of the coronavirus outbreak. As restaurants have… Read More
Investors are putting more juice behind Peach, the Seattle startup that delivers lunch to office workers. A new SEC filing shows $5 million raised of a larger round. Peach CEO… Read More
Farmers markets and “Community Supported Agriculture” bags brimming with local produce have become commonplace across much of the agriculturally fertile Pacific Northwest. But our jam-packed schedules don’t always provide time… Read More
I ordered food to be delivered for the first — and last — time recently through Amazon Restaurants, the 4-year-old service that will be shutting down for good on Monday.… Read More
Amazon will shutter its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. later this month, GeekWire has learned. Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle back in 2015. Amazon expanded the… Read More
Amazon’s restaurant delivery business pulled out of the U.K. late last year, and now the tech giant is backing one of its former rivals. Amazon is leading a $575 million… Read More
Insulated bags for pizza deliveries and cooler bags for ice-cold drinks are nothing new. But how about if you put them together? Amazon’s inventors thought the idea was novel enough… Read More
Amazon has cut an undisclosed number of jobs in its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service, though the company insists it has no intention of retreating from the crowded culinary courier… Read More
For better or worse — in regard to my physical and mental health — I had McDonald’s delivered to my house early this morning using only a smartphone. The fast food… Read More
Forget the drive thru. McDonald’s is focused on “drive to” with an expansion in Seattle and across the U.S. of its McDelivery service through the UberEATS app. Seattle-area fast-food fans… Read More
Are you a fan of Starbucks’ unlisted drinks? What about Jamba Juice’s secret smoothies? If you’re a person who likes ordering something that a restaurant specifically chose not to put on… Read More
There are plenty of services that provide food delivery from a variety of restaurants. Choosing between them and sorting out delivery times and pricing can even leave some users hungry —… Read More
UberEats launches in Portland today. Uber’s restaurant delivery service will be available starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with more than 100 Portland area restaurants on the platform like Whiskey Soda Lounge, Pok… Read More
Uber’s super-fast lunch delivery has shut down in Seattle and other cities across North America. “Instant Delivery,” part of Uber’s UberEats app, is no longer available to users. The service… Read More
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises and Flirtey teamed up today to demonstrate a drone delivery system that could theoretically bring you a pizza in 30 minutes or less – from the air. The first delivery… Read More
Uber’s food delivery service is expanding in the Seattle area. The company announced today that UberEATS is now available on the Eastside, serving customers in Bellevue, Redmond, and Woodinville, among… Read More
It’s just before noon on the fifth floor of F5 Networks on another sunny summer day in Seattle. A delivery driver for startup Peach has arrived, dropping off a bag of… Read More
Amazon has quietly begun testing a workplace lunch delivery service in Seattle, letting employees at specific companies order lunch specials for delivery to their offices, receiving daily menus via text… Read More
Time will tell if Uber can succeed with its new food delivery operation. After testing it this afternoon, the experience was indeed as easy as hailing an Uber ride, thanks… Read More
Seattle is getting another food delivery service — this time, from Uber. The ride-hailing giant today officially unveiled its full-blown dedicated food delivery app, UberEats, to hungry customers in the… Read More
Uber is moving beyond just lunch and will launch a full-blown food delivery service. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the ride-hailing company will roll out a standalone food… Read More
