{"slug": "doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos", "title": "DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos", "summary": "DoorDash launched a new AI chatbot called \"Ask DoorDash\" on Thursday that allows users to order food and groceries using text prompts, recipe links, or photos instead of traditional search. The chatbot can build grocery carts from cookbook images or recipe links, suggest restaurants based on mood and dietary preferences, and find reservation availability for specific dining requests. The feature is rolling out on iOS in select regions, with a broader U.S. release expected in the coming weeks as food delivery companies race to integrate conversational AI into everyday shopping.", "body_md": "DoorDash [announced](https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/ask-doordash) on Thursday that it’s launching a new AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries with text prompts and photos in its latest AI push.\n\nThe chatbot, called “Ask DoorDash,” allows users to search the app for what they’re looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart. You can tell the chatbot what you’re in the mood for, share a recipe link to find the items, or describe the reservation you’re looking for.\n\n“Traditional search works best when you know the exact restaurant or table you’re looking for,” DoorDash wrote in the blog post. “Ask DoorDash is designed for the moments when you don’t.”\n\nFood delivery apps and tech giants are betting that AI can help make shopping more conversational and personalized, as companies race to make AI assistants a standard part of everyday life. In February, Uber Easts launched an [AI-powered “Cart Assistant,](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/uber-eats-launches-ai-assistant-to-help-with-grocery-cart-creation/)” while Instacart has rolled out an [AI shopping assistant](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/instacart-ai-solutions-sprouts-grocery.html) that grocers can offer to their customers.\n\nDoorDash’s app can build your grocery cart based on a photo from a cookbook, a picture of your grocery list, or a recipe. DoorDash will then add all the items and their correct quantities to your cart. It will prompt users to check if they already have staples like sugar and butter, so they don’t buy something they already have.\n\nYou can also ask the chatbot to reorder your last grocery cart or suggest new items based on your previous orders, DoorDash says.\n\nAs for ordering food, you can tell the chatbot that you want a “filling dinner for a family of 4.” The app will then surface restaurants alongside a personalized blurb explaining why it matches your search. You can narrow the results even further with a query like, “Show me kid-friendly vegetarian spots with mild options.”\n\nOnce you select a place, you can ask DoorDash to build a cart with suggestions based on your dietary preferences, budget, group size, or past orders.\n\nWith Ask DoorDash for Reservations, users can ask the chatbot to find a “table for two downtown for a date-night dinner around 8 PM.” The app will then surface restaurants with availability. You can refine the results further by asking for something a little more intimate.\n\nThe chatbot is rolling out on iOS in select regions for restaurant search and grocery shopping, and within DoorDash Reservations. It will reach more users across the U.S. in the coming weeks, the company says.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos/", "published_at": "2026-06-11 14:23:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 18:02:06.296859+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["DoorDash", "Ask DoorDash", "Uber Eats", "Instacart", "TechCrunch", "CNBC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/doordashs-new-ai-chatbot-lets-you-order-with-prompts-and-photos.jsonld"}}