Amazon is re-entering the restaurant delivery market through a new partnership with Uber Eats, making it the official restaurant delivery partner for Prime subscribers in the US.
Under the agreement, Prime members can order takeout directly through the Amazon app or website. The partnership provides $0 delivery fees on restaurant orders of $25 or more. A key feature of the deal is that Prime subscribers do not have to use the Uber Eats app or create an Uber account to access these services; they can use their existing Amazon payment methods while Amazon handles the ordering process and delivery alerts. Uber Eats will send the final receipt.
Uber says it’s designed to let shoppers buy meals, groceries, and everyday household items all in one place. The move marks a return to restaurant delivery for Amazon, which previously shut down its internal Amazon Restaurants service years ago. Amazon has realized that partnering is cheaper than building its own delivery service for perishable meals from scratch.
The partnership also provides Uber with access to tens of millions of Amazon Prime shoppers without having to spend money running app store ads to win them over. Because DoorDash is the bigger player in restaurant delivery, Uber is clearly hoping to put pressure on its much larger rival by partnering with Amazon.
Amazon previously partnered with Grubhub by offering free delivery to Prime members. Adding Uber Eats as the “official” partner means Amazon is either deliberately teaming up with multiple delivery apps, or simply admitting that Grubhub has become too small to really matter to Prime members.
Whether this deal is enough to move the needle for Prime subscribers remains to be seen. While waiving the delivery fee helps, it doesn’t eliminate the largest parts of the bill. On most takeout orders, costs like service fees, local regulatory charges, driver tips, and menu markups still make up the bulk of what you pay. And setting a $25 order threshold makes this benefit less practical for solo diners or casual lunch orders, forcing customers to buy extra food just to save a $3-$4 delivery charge.
Amazon and Uber say members could save over $175 a year, but that calculation assumes you order delivery fairly often. Because the estimate is compared against paying full price on every single order, customers would likely need to order takeout several times a month to reach that total.
