Amazon Prime subscribers now get GrubHub Plus free for a yr

Amazon Prime subscribers within the US are getting a brand new profit as a part of their subscription, the firm has introduced. From in the present day, they’ll be capable to redeem a free yr of Grubhub Plus, the month-to-month subscription service that provides free meals supply on orders over $12 from taking part eating places. Grubhub Plus usually prices $9.99 a month.

In keeping with Amazon, free deliveries related to Grubhub Plus can be found from lots of of 1000’s of eating places throughout over 4,000 cities within the US. After the yr is up, Grubhub will routinely begin charging $9.99 a month for continued entry. Current Grubhub Plus subscribers can nonetheless make use of the promotion, which can be utilized from the beginning of their subsequent billing cycle. Canceling Prime routinely cancels Grubhub Plus.

The deal comes only a few brief years after Amazon shut down Amazon Eating places, its personal try to compete within the takeout supply market. The service was dwell between 2015 and 2019 however confronted stiff competitors from the likes of Uber Eats and DoorDash.

Since then, the e-commerce big has primarily targeted on grocery deliveries, however has stored a toe within the takeout supply market by means of partnerships with different companies. It introduced an funding in Europe-focused Deliveroo in 2019, and began providing entry to its Deliveroo Plus subscription service as a further perk for Prime members within the UK final yr. As a part of the deal introduced in the present day Amazon is taking a 2-percent stake in Grubhub, which might rise to fifteen p.c over time.

“Amazon has redefined comfort with Prime and we’re assured this providing will expose many new diners to the worth of Grubhub Plus whereas driving extra enterprise to our restaurant companions and drivers,” Grubhub CEO Adam DeWitt mentioned in an announcement. The corporate, which is owned by Simply Eat Takeaway.com, says it expects Grubhub Plus subscriptions to rise because of the deal.

GrubHub Plus isn’t the one further profit Amazon is asserting for Prime members in the present day. The e-commerce big can also be making a brief teaser trailer for its upcoming Lord of the Rings TV present, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy out there solely to Prime subscribers for 48 hours. Members can watch the teaser over on the present’s Amazon web page. The trailer ends by promising but one other teaser is approaching July 14th forward of the discharge of the collection on September 2nd.

Replace July sixth, 5:55AM ET: Up to date to notice Amazon’s 2-percent stake in Grubhub.