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
Amazon is headed back to college for the new school year. The company’s cashierless “Just Walk Out” technology is being deployed for the first time by Grubhub as part of… Read More
The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to permanently implement a 15% cap on the fees that services such as Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, and others charge restaurants for food delivery. 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
Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed what is being called a “first-in-the-nation” policy to create protections for gig workers who deliver meals, groceries and packages, and some on-demand service… Read More
A new study of pay on apps such as Instacart and DoorDash finds that gig delivery workers make less than minimum wage on average in Seattle, after factoring in expenses.… 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
Five evenings a week, sometimes more, Carmen Figueroa gets into her car, signs into her GrubHub account and sets out for a night of deliveries. She averages three-to-four deliveries an… Read More
Jonny Silverberg, co-owner of Seattle’s Schmaltzy’s Delicatessen, remembers his breaking point. It was on a Wednesday, not long ago. A customer called saying that the items she ordered were not… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Word leaked out this week that Uber is considering buying food-delivery service Grubhub, and it turns out there are… Read More
Uber is headquartered in San Francisco. Grubhub calls Chicago home. But there’s an interesting Seattle connection behind news this week that Uber is looking to purchase Grubhub, a 16-year-old food… 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
Ignition Partners added two high-profile names to its roster, including former Microsoft chief information officer Jim DuBois. DuBois and Datasphere CEO Satbir Khanuja will serve as “venture advisors” at Ignition, a Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More
If you want to clean up before ordering in some food, or you need to clean up after eating that food, new Amazon Alexa skills for Roomba and Grubhub could… Read More
Amazon, Uber, and a whole host of startups are hungry for their share of the food delivery market. But GrubHub has been delivering meals long before these new players arrived at… Read More
Amazon is launching a new restaurant delivery service in Seattle today, leveraging its fleet of drivers to get hot meals to customers within an hour. The official launch confirms what GeekWire reported just two… Read More
Amazon has quietly started experimenting with delivery of hot meals from restaurants in the Seattle area, GeekWire has learned. It’s a sign that the e-commerce giant could soon throw its weight into the… Read More
Tired of cooking after Thanksgiving? We’ve got you covered with our rundown of the best food delivery services, with advice from one of the top experts in the field (or… Read More
With more companies going public in the first quarter of 2014 than in any other year since the dotcom heyday of 2000, IPO candidates are taking advantage of the feeding… Read More
Brian McAndrews, the former aQuantive CEO who now serves as a venture partner at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, is already playing a role in the transformation of the news business… Read More
GrubHub earlier this month landed $50 million in venture capital, money that it will use to try to transform the way people order food from local restaurants on their mobile phones. It’s… Read More
