Amazon introduces (free) restaurant delivery in London for prime members

Amazon announced that Prime members in selected London area can now enjoy delivery from hand-picked quality local restaurants via the Prime Now app. Delivery on all orders is free for Prime members with a minimum order of £15.00.

Prime members can download the Prime Now app and enter their postcode to see if restaurant delivery is available in their area. In postcodes where the restaurant delivery service is available, customers will see Amazon Restaurants on the home page – almost 150.

Customers can view participating restaurants, browse menus, place orders and track the status of their delivery in real time. Once orders are placed, delivery drivers pick up and deliver the food in an hour or less. Customers are eligible for £10 off their first Amazon Restaurants order via the Prime Now app using the discount code AMAZON10 at checkout.

„London offers some of the best cuisine from around the world, so we’re delighted that Amazon Prime customers can now enjoy food from their favourite restaurants via Amazon’s ultra-fast Prime Now service,” said Al Wilkinson, UK Head of Amazon Restaurants, Amazon. „Based on our own research into what is important to consumers in food delivery, our team have hand-picked a selection of the best quality local restaurants in London. We’re excited to be helping many of these small businesses start offering home delivery for the very first time.”

Amazon Restaurants delivery via Prime Now first launched in Seattle in September 2015, and has quickly rolled out to be available for Prime members in Manhattan, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego, Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore and Portland. Delivery is promised within an hour of the order being placed through the Prime Now app, with the average delivery time taking less than 45 minutes.

If a customer finds a restaurant item that is priced higher than the regularly-priced item on the restaurant’s current online menu within 24 hours of placing the order, Amazon will refund the customer the price of the item. Customers can pay using the information already stored in their Amazon account and orders are backed by Amazon’s award-winning customer service.

Prime is available for a monthly membership of £7.99/month, or a best value annual membership of just £79/year.

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Source: Amazon