{"id":900789,"date":"2026-10-31T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900789\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:56:17","slug":"basically-no-one-is-using-ai-agents-for-their-doordash-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/900789\/","title":{"rendered":"Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xu\u2019s discussion of \u201cthird-party agent\u201d orders also doesn\u2019t include DoorDash\u2019s own internal AI tools. Those include an \u201cAsk DoorDash\u201d feature the company rolled out this summer<\/a> that can, for instance, create an online shopping cart from a photograph of a recipe or suggest an order based on a vague description like \u201cdinner for a family of four.\u201d<\/p>\n

DoorDash hasn\u2019t shared detailed statistics on that kind of usage, but the company said last month<\/a> that Ask DoorDash baskets get built \u201cfive times faster\u201d than those built without, and Ask DoorDash orders \u201caverage nearly 50% higher basket value and about 60% more unique items than the same consumers\u2019 traditional orders.\u201d The company also said nearly half of Ask DoorDash orders end up at \u201clocal spots the consumer has never tried before,\u201d helping with discovery of new area restaurants.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all to say that DoorDash\u2019s current experience with agentic ordering may be a bit like Pizza Hut\u2019s first tentative online ordering experiments in 1994<\/a>. Back then, it would have been hard to picture today\u2019s world, where more than half of Pizza Hut orders are placed online.<\/p>\n

Maybe ordering food and other goods using AI agents will be just as commonplace years from now, and we\u2019ll look back at these early statistics with bemusement. For now, though, Xu at least seems relatively cool on the early numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy take on all things technology is you never want to fight gravity,\u201d he said regarding AI agents. \u201cBut at the same time, you don\u2019t want to be delusional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xu\u2019s discussion of \u201cthird-party agent\u201d orders also doesn\u2019t include DoorDash\u2019s own internal AI tools. Those include an \u201cAsk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-900789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}