Amazon poised to make big push into restaurant deliveries
September 25, 2017
Amazon.com began making one-hour restaurant deliveries in Seattle in 2015 and has been expanding the service into other cities since then. Now, Amazon is partnering with Olo to offer delivers. Olo provides digital ordering and payment technology to 200 restaurant brands with about 40,000 locations around the U.S. Buca di Beppo, which runs about 90 Italian restaurants, is the first Olo customer to announce it will use Amazon to deliver orders.
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