Amazon Restaurants

[Alpha8472]

Amazon has attempted to put brick and mortar stores out of business. Why not put brick and mortar restaurants out of business? Amazon wants to deliver everything to you. Why not food?

Amazon could set up kitchens in their warehouses and then use their own delivery drivers to deliver food.

[DFWRetaileWatcher]

Amazon has attempted to put brick and mortar stores out of business. Why not put brick and mortar restaurants out of business? Amazon wants to deliver everything to you. Why not food?

Amazon could set up kitchens in their warehouses and then use their own delivery drivers to deliver food.

The same reason people still go to Casinos even though online gambling is widely accessible.

It's all about the experience. That is, seeing all the brights lights, hearing the bells when someone wins, being able to physically pull the lever on the slots, meeting all sorts of strangers, being able to physically hold the cards/chips or roll dice (instead of relying on computer algos), etc.

With restaurants, people are seeking to be waited on, eat quickly and freshly-prepared meals without cooking themselves, an escape from their kitchen/dining rooms, etc.

[Retailuser]

I remember and used their restaurant delivery service before they shut it down. Nice service for prime members.

[ClownLoach]

Amazon has attempted to put brick and mortar stores out of business. Why not put brick and mortar restaurants out of business? Amazon wants to deliver everything to you. Why not food?

Amazon could set up kitchens in their warehouses and then use their own delivery drivers to deliver food.

The problem with this is Amazon is going away from delivery drivers on site at their warehouses. Now they box and ship orders loading into 53' semi trailers driven to a small local delivery hub. These are opening everywhere and cuts the number of miles Amazon was driving vehicles by over 90%. They unload the trailer right into the delivery vans.

Amazon clearly is moving away from all this crazy diversification of their business model and getting back to basics. Doing less but better. They had lost sight of their business.

[babs]

Amazon tried restaurant delivery for a very short time around here. They weren't set up well to succeed and quickly dropped it. But this was well before.yhe pandemic. Maybe it would work better now.

[storewanderer]

Amazon tried restaurant delivery for a very short time around here. They weren't set up well to succeed and quickly dropped it. But this was well before.yhe pandemic. Maybe it would work better now.

How did that work? Did they deliver other Amazon orders along with a restaurant order? Or was it separate drivers just for restaurant?

[ClownLoach]

Amazon tried restaurant delivery for a very short time around here. They weren't set up well to succeed and quickly dropped it. But this was well before.yhe pandemic. Maybe it would work better now.

How did that work? Did they deliver other Amazon orders along with a restaurant order? Or was it separate drivers just for restaurant?

Here they were basically reselling Seamless before it merged with GrubHub. I think that merger killed Amazon Restaurants.