Foursquare Now Lets You Order In Directly From US Restaurants

Foursquare is teaming up with GrubHub Seamless, the company announced Thursday, meaning users are now able to order delivery from thousands of restaurants directly through Foursquare.

A new GrubHub or Seamless icon will appear at the bottom of the Foursquare app when a user is viewing a participating restaurant. You'll be able to place your orders directly through the app; Foursquare announced that more than 20,000 restaurants from across the United States will now have that function within Foursquare.

You can look specifically for GrubHub Seamless restaurants by searching for their cuisine type and adding the word 'delivery' to the end of the search. For example, searching 'pizza delivery' would return restaurants from the GrubHub Seamless network. Foursquare matched its own restaurant database with the GrubHub Seamless database to identify participating restaurants, according to a company spokesperson.

GrubHub and Seamless finalized a merger in August after announcing that the two delivery companies would join forces in May 2013. The company takes a small percentage of order sales and is free for consumers to place orders.

The financial details of the agreement are unknown. A Foursquare spokesperson declined to comment on any financial aspect of the arrangement.

The new feature is available starting Thursday on Foursquare.com, as well as on both the iOS and Android versions of the app, according to the company's blog.

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