That is a company that makes software which helps restaurants get orders from services like Seamless and Grubhub. Sally, you talked to Vishal Agarwal about this delivery problem. VANEK SMITH: The service faced all of these problems, and one of the biggest problems was delivery. You figure out what you want to eat, and then hopefully, very soon a delivery person from Amazon's grocery delivery service, Prime Now, would show up with your food. Amazon Restaurants worked a lot like other food delivery services. HERSHIPS: (Laughter) Well, Stacey, the service was offered in only about 25 cities, and you could only use it if you were a Prime subscriber. STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: Never even heard of it. SALLY HERSHIPS, BYLINE: Compared with the kind of traffic Amazon sees on its main site,, Amazon Restaurants, it was kind of limited. Planet Money's Stacey Vanek Smith and Sally Herships explain. It's now trying to solve an issue that has perplexed them for years, the so-called last-mile delivery. But the tech giant is trying to learn from its mistakes. Amazon just closed down its food delivery service.
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