To give diners more freedom in how they pay for their Grubhub orders, the Chicago tech giant is allowing users to pay via their Venmo accounts, the company announced Tuesday.
The new feature lets diners pay for food using money already in their Venmo balance, or with the credit or debit card linked to their account. Venmo payment capabilities are also available on Seamless and Eat24, two food-ordering platforms Grubhub has acquired.
The new Venmo integration will also make splitting checks among groups of diners easier. The platform allows users to send requests to others, asking them to pay their share of orders from their Venmo accounts.
“More than sixty percent of our orders are placed on mobile devices, so we always look for ways to make it easier for diners to find, order and pay for the food they want, when and where they want it,” said Sam Hall, chief product officer of Grubhub, in a statement. “Adding the ‘split the bill’ feature provides an additional level of convenience our diners have come to expect from us.”
In 2012, Chicago-based payments company Braintree acquired Venmo for $26.2 million. But now both the companies are owned by PayPal, which acquired Braintree a year later.
“Venmo was founded to provide people with an easier way to make and share payments with friends and family,” said Venmo COO Mike Vaughan in a statement. “We’re excited to further our longstanding partnership with Grubhub through this integration and given so many food-related payments occur on Venmo each day, it brings the social payment experience our customers love to the mobile buying experiences we know they already enjoy.”
Grubhub's alliance with Venmo is the company's second established partnership with a high-profile tech company this year. In February, it partnered with New York-based Foursquare to simplify how the platform's users place food delivery orders. Grubhub now works with more than 80,000 restaurants in over 1,600 U.S. cities.
