Amazon Launches Restaurant Delivery on Prime Now in Austin

Amazon Launches Restaurant Delivery on Prime Now in Austin

Prime Now customers in Austin can now enjoy delivery from local restaurants and food trucks, including Boteco ATX, Chi'Lantro, Clay Pit, Michi Ramen, Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill, Southside Flying Pizza, Sugar Mama's Bakeshop, Terry Black's Barbecue, The Backspace and many more

Free one-hour delivery for a limited time on all restaurant orders

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2015-- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the launch of restaurant delivery on Prime Now in Austin. Starting today, Prime Now customers in Austin can enjoy one-hour delivery from local restaurants and food trucks, including Boteco ATX, Chi'Lantro, Clay Pit, Michi Ramen, Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill, Southside Flying Pizza, Sugar Mama's Bakeshop, Terry Black's Barbecue, The Backspace, and many more local favorites.

Using the Prime Now mobile app, Austin customers can view participating restaurants, browse menus, place orders, track the status of their delivery, and watch as the driver travels from the restaurant to the delivery address in real time. Once an order is placed, Amazon drivers deliver the food in an hour or less.

Austin is a haven for people who love great music, great weather and great food, said Gus Lopez, general manager, Amazon Restaurants. That's a perfect fit with restaurant delivery on Prime Now: we take care of mealtime so our customers have more time for the things they love.

Restaurant delivery on Prime Now is available across 15 zip codes in and around downtown Austin and will continue expanding restaurant selection in the coming weeks. Prime members can download the Prime Now app or visit amazon.com/primenow to enter their zip code and see if Prime Now is available in their area. In zip codes where restaurant delivery is available, customers will see Restaurants on the home page.

Participating Austin restaurants include:

100 Pizzitas

416 Bar & Grille

aRoma Italian Kitchen & Bar

Arpeggio Grill

ATX Boudain Hut

Austin Daily Press

Austin's Habibi

Bacon

Barlata Tapas Bar

Benji's Cantina

Billie Jean's Burger Pub

Bombay Dhaba

Boteco ATX

Cazamance

Chi'Lantro

Chinatown

Clay Pit

Conscious Cravings

Cool Beans

Daily Juice Cafe

Delicious Thai

Dock & Roll Diner

Emerald Tavern Games & Cafe

Fat Sal's Deli

Gus's World Famous Friend Chicken

Heros Gyros

Il Forte

J. Black's Feel Good Kitchen & Lounge

Juice Austin

Kesos Taco House

La Cocina de Consuelo

Llama's Peruvian Creole

Mama V's Quezzadillaville

Michi Ramen

Mighty Bird

Monkey Nest Coffee

Moonshine Patio Bar & Grill

NO VA Kitchen & Bar

People's RX

PhoNatic

Pie Plante

Pommes Frites Etc

Rebel Pizza Bar

Republic of Sandwich

Rockaway Beach ATX

Rollin Smoke Barbecue

Royal Jelly

Saffron

Sagra

Sala & Betty

Shawarma Point

Slake Cafe

Snap Kitchen

Southside Flying Pizza

Sugar Mama's Bakeshop

Taco Flats

Tamale House East

Tea Haus

Terry Black's Barbecue

The Backspace

The Halal Bros

Thistle Cafe

Way South Philly

Xian Sushi and Noodle

And more coming soon

We are immensely excited to offer our fresh, made-from-scratch pizza and delicious salads to customers through Amazon's Prime Now service, said Art Goldstein, owner, Southside Flying Pizza. For ten years we have surprised and delighted our customers with large portions and outstanding quality. Now, Prime Now makes it even easier to order from and enjoy Southside Flying Pizza.

Restaurant delivery on Prime Now offers customers transparent pricing-there are no menu markups or hidden service fees and delivery on all orders is free for a limited time. Customers pay using the information already stored in their Amazon account and orders are backed by Amazon's award-winning customer service.

To learn more about Prime Now, and to download the mobile app, visit amazon.com/primenow. For restaurants interested in working with Prime Now, please contact restaurant-inquiries@amazon.com/.

More to Prime

Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $99 a year that offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 20 million items across all categories, unlimited Free Same-Day Delivery on more than a million items in 16 metro areas, unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes, more than one million songs, more than one thousand playlists and hundreds of stations with Prime Music, early access to select Lightning Deals all year long, free secure, unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive with Prime Photos and access to more than 800,000 books to borrow with the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. In addition, Prime members in select cities receive one and two hour delivery through Prime Now on tens of thousands of items through a mobile app. Not a member? Start a free trial of Amazon Prime at amazon.com/prime.

About Amazon

Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.

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