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Amazon announces free one-hour delivery for Prime members in Brooklyn from more than 130 popular restaurants

Prime members in Brooklyn can now enjoy delivery from popular restaurants, including Roberta’s Pizza, Blue Ribbon Brasserie, Momofuku Milk Bar, Talde, Miriam, Hill Country BBQ & Chicken, and many more

SEATTLE, 2016-Oct-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today (Oct. 25, 2016) announced that Prime members in Brooklyn can now enjoy free one-hour delivery from more than 130 popular restaurants, including Roberta’s Pizza, Blue Ribbon Brasserie, Momofuku Milk Bar, Talde, Miriam, Hill Country BBQ & Chicken, and many more. Using the Prime Now mobile app or visiting the Prime Now website, Brooklyn customers can view participating restaurants, browse menus, place orders, track the status of their delivery, and watch as their delivery courier travels from the restaurant to the delivery address in real time.

“We are excited to bring Brooklyn’s vibrant food scene right to our customers’ door with free delivery in an hour or less,” said Gus Lopez, general manager,Amazon Restaurants. “Prime members are loving the convenience of superfast delivery and now customers can choose from more than 500 restaurants available in Manhattan and Brooklyn.”

Once an order is placed, the food will be delivered to the customer in an hour or less. Prime Now Restaurant Delivery offers customers transparent pricing—there are no menu markups or hidden service fees and delivery on all orders is free. If a customer finds a restaurant item on Prime Now that is priced higher than the regularly priced item on the restaurant’s current online menu within 24 hours of placing the order, Amazon will refund that customer the price of the item.

“Having opened our doors in downtown Brooklyn two years ago, Hill Country is excited to get our food to even more fans across all of Brooklyn,” said March Glosserman, founder and CEO of Hill Country Group. “We are excited to be partnering with an ecommerce and logistics leader like Amazon which, like us, puts the customer experience first.”

Participating Brooklyn restaurants include:

Prime members can download the Prime Now app or visit the Prime Now website to enter their zip code and see if the service is available in their area. In zip codes where restaurant delivery is available, customers will see Restaurants on the home page.

To learn more about Amazon Restaurants or to download the Prime Now mobile app, visit primenow.amazon.com/restaurants. For restaurants interested in working with Amazon Restaurants, please visit amazon.com/restaurants-merchants.

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