Amazon Restaurants

History

2019: Closing of service

On June 11, 2019 announced Amazon closing of Restaurants service after four years of its work. The company did not sustain the competition in the market of delivery of food from restaurants.

Amazon Restaurants will stop work in the USA on June 24, 2019. Several months before it it was closed in London and remained functioning only in 20 American cities. Thus, after shutdown in the USA Amazon Restaurants will be closed completely, notes the The Verge edition.

Amazon closes delivery service of food from restaurants, without having sustained the competition

The Internet giant also liquidates delivery service of lunches in offices Daily Dish which worked since June, 2016. The last afternoon of work Daily Dish will become on June 14 the 2019th.

Staff of Amazon Restaurants will continue work in the company — in other its divisions. The help in search of the new employer will be rendered to those to whom there will be no place.

Amazon Restaurants was squeezed out by competitors, but Amazon does not intend to refuse this market completely. In May, 2019 the British company Deliveroo specializing in delivery of food reported that it attracted investments in the amount of $575 million, including from Amazon.

Besides, Amazon performs the product delivery from Whole Foods shops  and offers service of purchase of food on the Internet of AmazonFresh Pickup. Users of this service just order all necessary on the website, pay purchases by means of the bank card, drive up to AmazonFresh Pickup shop then the employee of the company loads goods into a luggage carrier.

By 2019 in the American market of delivery of food Uber, Grubhub and DoorDash services of which more than 75% of revenue are the share dominate. So, Uber Eats revenue in 2018 reached $1.5 billion, having increased by 149% of rather previous year. However Uber Eats share in the world market does not exceed and 1%, counted in Technomic research company.^[1]

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