2 min read- Alexa+ now lets users order food from Grubhub and Uber Eats through a conversational interface.
- Users can browse restaurants, customize items, ask questions, and change orders in real time.
- The feature is rolling out to Alexa+ customers with Echo Show 8 devices and larger.
I struggle with ordering food enough as it is. I scroll endlessly between apps, and suddenly I’m 45 minutes deep without having eaten anything yet. But when you know, you know. And because technology is absolutely unwell these days, Ms. Alexa herself is now stepping in with a new way to order takeout that sounds dangerously well-suited to people like me.
Amazon just announced that Alexa+ is rolling out a conversational food-ordering feature with Grubhub and Uber Eats. Instead of the usual stiff little command-response setup, this version is supposed to let people order the way they’d talk to a waiter: asking questions, changing their minds, tweaking an order as they go, and building the whole thing out in one running conversation.
The idea is that you can start with a craving, a cuisine, or a specific restaurant and go from there. Want Italian? Say that. Know exactly where you want to order from? Great. Want to start building a cart, then pivot midway through because suddenly you need dessert or your original order no longer speaks to you spiritually? Apparently, Alexa+ can handle that too. Users can add and modify items in real time, adjust quantities, ask to see more of the menu, and get suggestions while the order is still taking shape on screen.
Users just have to link their Grubhub or Uber Eats account through the Alexa app, and past orders will sync automatically. From there, they can do anything from reorder an old favorite to starting fresh with a build from scratch. Alexa+ can also surface popular items and even menu matches for broader asks like “meat lovers pizza.”
Because let’s get real: If I say I want a meat lovers pizza, I do not want to manually decode which menu item at a given restaurant is closest to that. I want the machine to figure it out for me, and frankly, it’s about time.
Once the order is built, Alexa+ shows the whole cart with item names, quantities, pricing, and total cost before purchase. After that, users can track delivery updates in the “For You” section and ask the very fair question, “Alexa, where’s my food?”
The feature is starting to roll out now to Alexa+ customers with Echo Show 8 devices and larger, so not everyone will be talking through their takeout order just yet. But as first steps go, this is a pretty telling one.
Having a personal assistant to help order dinner is so 2026.