Main Street doesn’t need to out-build the world’s biggest online retailers and grocers. What it needs is access to what others have built for themselves. @DoorDash and @Instacart share that mission and focus. Coming together will enable the best possible logistics and software infrastructure to produce the best possible grocery delivery experience. The combined reach and network density will lower fulfillment costs for grocers, offer more savings and faster delivery options for consumers, and provide greater earning opportunities for Dashers and Shoppers. Grocery delivery is still early and the product isn’t there yet, but we think its future is local - because when more people shop local, more dollars stay local.
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Give an agent access to DoorDash, and you can:
- Order items by voice via CarPlay and have them arrive before you get home
- Use Slackbots to turn threads into one DoorDash order for a 15-person team
- Find a new dinner spot that fits your cravings and your budget
- Match meals to your macro and calorie targets using your Apple Watch workout data
Or take your own idea from prompt to delivery with the DoorDash CLI or Corporate Ordering MCP. Beta access below.
We've seen a lot of enthusiasm around the DoorDash CLI, and people have been asking for it to work across their teams. Today, we're introducing the DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering, so your team’s agents can place group orders, restock the office, schedule team lunches, track deliveries, and more.
We’re proud that @spacexai, @vercel, @cognition, @Tempo, and @mercor are some of our early adopters already using the DoorDash MCP so employees can order agentically. A few great use cases we’ve seen so far: agents automatically restocking office supplies and snacks based on inventory signals, and Slackbots to collect the team’s lunch requests and handle placing the order.
And we’re opening availability of our dd-cli to more developers in the US and Canada on macOS and Linux. Show us what you build and check out some really cool ways folks are using the CLI!
Get access to the MCP or CLI here: developer.doordash.com/mcp
Lunch, as it turns out, is strangely a very difficult problem to solve (exponentially harder as the number of teammates grows). It's been fun to see how different companies and teammates are using our CLI to make lunch an easier thing to do. Now we've built it into an MCP to get companies all things food and more!
We've seen a lot of enthusiasm around the DoorDash CLI, and people have been asking for it to work across their teams. Today, we're introducing the DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering, so your team’s agents can place group orders, restock the office, schedule team lunches, track deliveries, and more.
We’re proud that @spacexai, @vercel, @cognition, @Tempo, and @mercor are some of our early adopters already using the DoorDash MCP so employees can order agentically. A few great use cases we’ve seen so far: agents automatically restocking office supplies and snacks based on inventory signals, and Slackbots to collect the team’s lunch requests and handle placing the order.
And we’re opening availability of our dd-cli to more developers in the US and Canada on macOS and Linux. Show us what you build and check out some really cool ways folks are using the CLI!
Get access to the MCP or CLI here: developer.doordash.com/mcp
This year’s DashForward showcased another line up of how we’re building @DoorDash for the future. TLDR: we added more retailers for delivery with the ability to do returns, richer software for merchants to compete and grow same store sales, an AI agent to access DoorDash off app, and drones to deliver even more and faster in the last mile. More details👇:
1/ We’re bringing more categories online and available for fast delivery. The average customer in the US can now get 500K+ retail items delivered under an hour. Thrilled to be adding new brands like @Macys, @Vans, @thenorthface, and @Anthropologie.
2/ Returns: if something doesn’t quite fit, pay a flat fee to get a hassle free return.
3/ Text DoorDash: if you want an even faster way to order, soon you can just text us.
4/ DashOS: whether you order through our app, a restaurant’s website, via AI agents, or dine in person, we’re stitching together all of these pieces to give restaurant owners the most comprehensive view of their guests.
5/ DoorDash Air: having earned our Part 135 certification a couple of months ago, we’re excited to unveil DoorDash Air, our purpose built drone for delivery. Launch partners include @ChipotleTweets and @Popeyes!
Video recap here: youtube.com/watch?v=QLqrp3uR…
And just for fun, a preview of the end-to-end DoorDash Air system: youtube.com/watch?v=e3K_CP1O…
Whenever we meet a new technology, we always think about what customer problems it can solve. Drones are fantastic because they can go faster and help local businesses serve customers farther away. We're excited to announce @DoorDash Air today, our in house program which has earned @USDOT @FAANews Part 135 certification, giving us clearance to fly deliveries with our own drones!
As I described in our shareholder letter earlier this year, it will take the marriage of technology and operations to make the promise of AVs come true. Getting the orchestration right across all of the handoffs (loading and dropoffs) is what distinguishes the autonomous delivery and robotaxi problems and also dictates whether a customer actually benefits from this technology or not. This is the benefit of working with DoorDash. We will bring you real scale in the real world (beyond demos and prototypes in simulated environments). That's true if you're a pragmatic technologist who wants to join our DoorDash Labs team to build AVs in house, or whether you're a technology partner who wants to work with us and serve our billions of orders and millions of customers.
DoorDash has come a long way since I completed our first delivery in my Honda 13+ years ago. I'm optimistic about the adventure ahead - come join us!
Great to see @andyfang and @stanleytang talk about some of our latest experiments, some of which are now 8 years old, but still just getting started. If you want to learn, feel, and build at the intersection of autonomy, applied AI, and real world operations with speed and scale, come join us @DoorDash!
.@DoorDash is betting on robotics, drones, and AI. That doesn't mean fewer Dashers. It means a much bigger delivery network.
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Excited to “arm the rebels” as @tobi would say as we @DoorDash give the superpower of fast delivery to @Shopify merchants of all sizes! Grateful for the teams to have worked patiently to get the system details and integrations just right so merchants don’t have to change a thing to get going, fast. about.doordash.com/en-us/new…
Almost every restaurant - even the best ones on everyone's lists - have empty seats to fill. That demand should come from any channel to help these businesses maximize sales. And that freedom shouldn't come with the operational burden of managing so many different platforms. So just like how we worked to remove all the different delivery tablets inside the kitchen, we're excited to ship Channel Connect by the @SevenRooms team to help restaurants have what they deserve: maximal demand, managed seamlessly and synced real time inside one book!
Fun peak behind the scenes in how we do some of the applied research and engineering to ship AI that makes a difference for customers.
Today, we're shipping Ask DoorDash, an ordering agent that makes the @DoorDash app easier to use and discover new places. My favorite use cases include asking the assistant to reorder my usual for office lunches and family nights, prompting it to find me new restaurants similar to what I typically order, and building our family's weekly grocery in a couple of minutes by just talking to it and sharing a few recipes we found online. There's 800K+ items across the DoorDash catalog, and it's been a treat to use the assistant to discover so many new places and just how many things are literally in our backyard!
Our goal at DoorDash has always been to build local commerce to reflect the communities we serve. It’s encouraging to see someone actually study our audiences of consumers, merchants and Dashers and publish some of these myth busters, including this one: “Americans don’t consider the service a luxury. Forty-five percent of DoorDash customers said they had a household income below $75,000. That’s the same proportion as the U.S. population as a whole in 2024, according to the Census Bureau.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
The World Cup is one of the best examples of a global, local event - it's both the most viewed event globally and yet the way it's celebrated is always so local in nature. Operating globally in a hyperlocal way is exactly what we do everyday @DoorDash. That's why we're excited to sponsor this year's @FIFAWorldCup and have each of our brands, @DoorDash, @Deliveroo and @woltapp come together in a global campaign to celebrate each of the countries where we operate.
When I was growing up, my mom put food on the table by working three jobs a day for 12 years. One of those jobs was at a Chinese restaurant, where I moonlighted as a dishwasher. Watching her, I learned that for small businesses, there's no clocking out, no difference between weekdays and weekends, and no backup — just the next order, the next bill, the next challenge. Business owners are tough, but too many local businesses spend too much of their time fighting through permits and paperwork instead of serving their customers and building their passion project. DoorDash is committed to solving these problems, and that's why we built Unlocking Main Street.
