Amazon drops Grubhub and makes Uber Eats its Prime restaurant delivery partner

Amazon made Uber Eats its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States. The companies announced it on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

Prime members can now order Uber Eats food from inside the Amazon Shopping app and on Amazon.com. They do not need an Uber account.

Prime members pay no delivery fee on restaurant orders of more than $25.

You pick a restaurant inside Amazon's app or website, like you would pick a product. You pay with the payment methods already saved in your Amazon account.

Amazon handles the ordering steps and the delivery alerts. Uber Eats sends the final receipt. Behind the scenes, Uber's network of restaurants and couriers does the actual work.

Uber says the setup is meant to let shoppers buy meals, groceries and household items in one place.

In real life Say you are already adding paper towels to your Amazon cart. You can now add a $30 dinner from a local restaurant on the same screen and skip the delivery fee.

To get things moving, Amazon and Uber are offering a launch deal.

• Delivery fee: $0 on restaurant orders over $25.
• Launch discount: $20 off a first order of $25 or more, during the first two weeks.
• Claimed savings: more than $175 a year, according to Amazon and Uber.
• Account: no Uber sign-up needed.

By the numbers: the $175 figure compares the deal against paying full delivery fees on every order. You would need to order takeout several times a month to get near it.

The agreement that gave Prime members Grubhub+ ends Thursday, according to an Amazon spokesperson. Grubhub+ is a paid subscription with delivery perks, and Prime members had it for free.

The spokesperson said Amazon continuously evaluates its third-party offers. It found a chance to deliver what it calls an even better restaurant delivery experience.

Grubhub could not be reached before the news was published.

The two companies go back a few years. Amazon first struck a deal with Grubhub in 2022. It offered Prime members a free Grubhub+ subscription.

Two years later, Amazon widened the deal and made the free membership an ongoing offer. Amazon also agreed with Grubhub's then owner, Just Eat Takeaway.com, to raise its stake in Grubhub by as much as 18%.

That deal worked through warrants. A warrant is a right to buy shares later at a set price. It was set to renew each year.

Then the ground shifted. Just Eat Takeaway announced plans to sell Grubhub to Wonder, a company that runs delivery-focused food halls. The price was $650 million: $150 million in cash and $500 million of Grubhub's debt.

Just Eat Takeaway had paid about $7 billion for Grubhub a few years earlier. According to its annual report, Amazon chose in December 2024 to cash out its warrants.

The partnership kept going until now.

Amazon has tried this before. It ran its own restaurant delivery service, Amazon Restaurants, and shut it down in the US on June 24, 2019.

At the time it was a small player, with about 2% of the US market. Uber Eats, Grubhub and DoorDash together held about 80%.

Hot food is hard to move. It has to be cooked, packed and delivered within minutes by a driver who is nearby. Building that network from scratch is slow and expensive.

Partnering is cheaper. Amazon gets a restaurant option for Prime without running couriers, and Uber supplies the couriers it already has.

Uber gets in front of tens of millions of Prime members. Many of them already love getting things delivered.

It also saves money. Winning new customers normally means paying for app store ads. Here, Amazon's app does the introducing.

The timing is no accident. A week ago, DoorDash agreed to buy Instacart for $17 billion. The companies expect the deal to close at the end of 2027 or in the first half of 2028, after antitrust reviews in the United States, Canada and Israel.

Antitrust reviews are checks by regulators on whether a merger would hurt competition.

DoorDash is already the biggest player. Its share of spending across the main delivery apps rose from 44% in the second quarter of 2021 to 59% in the third quarter of 2026. Uber Eats went from 16% to 18% over the same stretch.

Teaming up with Amazon is a way for Uber to push back on its larger rival.

This is not a first date. The new deal builds on a long list of existing agreements between the two.

• Cloud computing: Uber uses Amazon's cloud services.
• Robotaxis: Zoox, Amazon's self-driving subsidiary, announced in March 2026 that it would offer rides through the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas this summer and in Los Angeles by mid-2027.
• Alexa+: Uber Eats is built into Amazon's AI assistant.

Zoox robotaxis are four-seat pods without a steering wheel or pedals.

Now the same two companies share a food delivery button too.

Waiving the delivery fee helps, but it does not remove the biggest parts of a takeout bill. Service fees, local regulatory charges, driver tips and menu markups still make up most of what you pay.

The $25 minimum also matters. It is less practical for a solo lunch. A typical delivery fee runs about $3 to $4, so some people may buy extra food just to avoid it.

The catch: the savings depend on how often you order. If you get takeout twice a year, this changes very little for you.

Whether the deal is enough to move the needle for Prime members remains to be seen.

Uber wants to be the one app where many services meet. Food, rides and groceries all sit on the same platform.

The Zoox deal shows the same idea. It was the first time Zoox put its rides on a third-party platform. Zoox pods are built only for ride-hailing, and they can drive in either direction at up to 75 mph.

Uber has described its platform as the best way for makers of self-driving cars to reach riders. Waymo, the leader, reported more than 400,000 weekly rides across six US metro areas in February.

Amazon gets something similar. Instead of building every service itself, it lets partners plug into the Prime app.

Several answers are missing. Amazon has not said what specifically made Uber Eats better than Grubhub. Grubhub has not commented.

Nobody has said whether the offer will reach other countries, or how long the free delivery will last. The launch discount runs for two weeks, and the delivery perk has no announced end date.

• Prime members: you can order restaurant food without leaving Amazon, and without an Uber account.
• Grubhub+ users: if you used the free Grubhub+ perk, it ends Thursday, so check your next order.
• Small orders: plan around the $25 line, or the fee will still show up.
• Everyone: compare the final price with the regular Uber Eats app before you get used to the new button.