Amazon has quietly started a free delivery service for restaurants housed in its Seattle buildings, and drivers who used to shuttle corporate employees around are part of the program (Via EaterSeattle)
. Mamnoon Street owner Wassef Hanoun tells Eater Seattle the service could be helpful in cutting down costs, although it’s still in its early stages and there’s a “learning curve” with the drivers, some of whom have never delivered food before. Marination co-owner Kamala Saxton says the restaurant received a survey about the delivery service via email, but did not sign on yet. As she continues to formulate a plan for the chain, Saxton will weigh Amazon as a delivery option.
For this service, Amazon pays the drivers, who work for a third-party company called MV Transportation that runs shuttle service for the tech giant. Deliveries are designed to be no contact — restaurants pack the food up on their own, place it in the trunk for the drivers, then the food is dropped off at the doorsteps of diners, who place orders directly from the restaurant’s website.
, if their roles allow them to do so. As a result, regardless of when dining rooms in the city reopen, any restaurants or bars within the vicinity of its campus could face even greater challenges. In early March, when Amazon and Microsoft issued work from home policies during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many that serve those tech hubs lost the majority of their revenue within days. Despite takeout and delivery as current options, quite a few of those restaurants remain closed.
Amazon launched a fund offering grants for small businesses in the downtown area, and has dispersed $10 million to applicants. It also offered rent relief through April for restaurant tenants of its buildings, including Mamnoon Street, although Hanoun says it’s unclear if that will continue. Any grant money will simply a stopgap as well, unlikely to keep restaurants who rely on daytime business traffic afloat for very long.
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