From The Amazon Press Room:
Amazon.com today announced that Prime members can voice-order their next meal through Amazon Restaurants on their Alexa-enabled devices including the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot. The new Alexa skill allows customers to reorder from any restaurant available on the service in more than 20 cities by saying, “Alexa, order from Amazon Restaurants,” and have any meal they’ve ordered before delivered to their door for free in an hour or less.
“Customers now have a hands-free, hassle-free way to reorder any meal from Amazon Restaurants using their voice to get dinner on the table,” said Gus Lopez, general manager of Amazon Restaurants at Amazon.
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Prime members can ask Alexa to reorder from Amazon Restaurants by saying a restaurant name or cuisine type, for example, “Alexa, order sushi from Amazon Restaurants.” The service pulls a customer’s order history from a specified restaurant or cuisine type and lists meal options available for reorder. The selected meal is then sent for delivery to a customer’s default address.
Once an order is placed, Amazon delivery partners deliver the food in one hour or less. Amazon Restaurants offers customers transparent pricing—there are no menu markups or hidden service fees—and delivery on all orders is free for Prime members.
Link to the rest at Amazon Press Room
Good lord, people. Seamless already exists and does this (only not via the Alexa), and the world has not ended. I live in New York City and most people cook most nights, but when I was single and worked REALLY late, I ordered. I still order out now. I just hope it doesn’t put places like Seamless and Grubhub out of business (and I’m an Amazon fan, but I’ve got to root for start-ups continuing to exist.
WHUT!? Holy crap. In my mind, dinner on the table means thawing meat, grabbing seasonings, and turning on the oven. There are two VERY NICE T-Bones sitting in the fridge letting the salt and whatnot soak into the meat. ORDERING dinner? That’s a desperation move, not a nightly event. Eesh.
When did the world change so that getting food on the table no longer involves opening the refrigerator or freezer door – and heating or cooking something?
The COST! Restaurant meals, DELIVERED, must cost an enormous amount of money – compared with throwing something together from the grocery store’s many convenient offerings.
My daughter informs me no one in New York City ever cooks.
I’m getting further out of touch with ‘reality’ every day. It’s literally been years since we had anything foodwise delivered to this house.
I thought they had somehow added hands and a recipe book to Alexa.
“I thought they had somehow added hands and a recipe book to Alexa.”
That’s coming, and then she’ll make your bed and clean for you too! 😛
And then… YOU will be making her bed, and doing the cleaning for the machines. Figuratively, of course. It will be more painful than that. A few laws have gone missin’ in the whole process (Where are you, Isaac?).