The Manhattan restaurant delivery race, which started years ago with Seamless and accelerated recently with Caviar, DoorDash and UberEats, has entered a new level of competition with the launch Tuesday of Amazon Restaurants' Prime Now service.Great moments for the sedentary generation.
The service offers free one-hour delivery from more than 350 Manhattan restaurants for Prime subscribers. Eateries include 34 Le Pain Quotidien outlets, Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, John’s of Bleecker Street, Junior's Restaurant & Cheesecake and Num Pang.
Amazon first rolled out the service in its hometown of Seattle in September. Including Tuesday's launch, Amazon Restaurants' Prime Now is available in 10 cities.
Deliveries are not available in certain parts of Manhattan. Prime members can check the Prime website to see if their ZIP codes are covered. Crain's did a quick search and found that ZIP codes in Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood were not included.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Amazon takes on UberEats with one-hour delivery in Manhattan. The service for Amazon Prime members offers free delivery from 350 restaurants.
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