{"slug": "show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai", "title": "Show HN: Layout – Order food anywhere with AI", "summary": "Layout launched a transactional infrastructure layer that lets consumer AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok place real restaurant orders, pay, and track them without a separate app or website. The company said users add a connector once, and Layout works with any restaurant that already takes online orders, with no fees for users or restaurants when a restaurant connects directly, automatic price matching, and no charge until the user confirms. Layout said it learns a user's usual orders and go-to spots so the assistant can reorder in seconds.", "body_md": "# ChatGPTClaudeSiriAskChatGPTfor sushi.We place the order.Ask ChatGPT for sushi. We place the order.\n\nLayout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering.\n\n# ChatGPTClaudeSiriAskChatGPTfor coffee.We place the order.Ask ChatGPT for coffee. We place the order.\n\nLayout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering.\n\n# ChatGPTClaudeSiriAskChatGPTfor sushi.We place the order.Ask ChatGPT for sushi. We place the order.\n\nLayout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering.\n\n## The food you want.\n\nIn the app you already have.\n\nAgents can find the restaurant and pick your dish, then stop. Layout is the infrastructure that lets them transact.\n\n#### From your corner coffee shop to the large chain across town. If they take online orders, Layout can place them.\n\n##### **From your corner coffee shop to the large chain across town. If they take online orders, Layout can place them.**\n\n#### Just ask your AI. It orders your food, pays, and tracks it for you. With no extra app or website.\n\n##### Just ask your AI. It orders your food, pays, and tracks it for you.\n\n#### Ask your AI. It orders your food, pays, and tracks it for you. With no extra app or website.\n\n## AI agents can find you food. We help them buy.\n\nLayout is the infrastructure that let any consumer based AI assistant place a real order at a real restaurant. One card, every restaurant, every AI.\n\n01.\n\n##### Add connector\n\n**Add Layout to your AI assistant once. It takes a minute and works with ChatGPT, Claude and Grok.**\n\n02.\n\n##### Ask\n\n03.\n\n##### Confirm\n\n04.\n\n##### Track\n\n##### Add connector\n\n**Add Layout to your AI assistant once. It takes a minute and works with ChatGPT, Claude and Grok.**\n\n##### Ask\n\n##### Confirm\n\n##### Track\n\n## Ordering is moving to AI. Layout makes it work.\n\n## Ordering is moving to AI. Layout makes it work.\n\nPeople are already asking AI to handle their food. The problem is it can't actually transact. Layout is the layer that turns a recommendation into a real order, automatically.\n\n**Your usual is a Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso, would you like me to order that?**\n\nClaude\n\n**Order me my usual at Starbucks.**\n\nYou\n\n**Yes pickup at 2:35**\n\nYou\n\n**Your order has been placed**\n\nClaude\n\n**Your order has been placed**\n\nClaude\n\n**Your usual is a Iced Latte, you want that?**\n\nClaude\n\n**Order me my usual at Starbucks.**\n\nYou\n\n**Yes pickup at 2:35**\n\nYou\n\n**Your order has been placed**\n\nClaude\n\n**Your order has been placed**\n\nClaude\n\n## Layout learns what you actually order.\n\nIt remembers your go-to spots and usual orders, so your AI can reorder in seconds or suggest something new you'll like.\n\n## Layout learns what you actually order.\n\nIt remembers your go-to spots and usual orders, so your AI can reorder in seconds or suggest something new you'll like.\n\n## Order from your\n\nfavorite restaurants\n\nLayout works with any restaurant that already takes online orders. When a restaurant connects with us directly, there are no fees for you or for them.\n\n## You're in control\n\nNothing gets placed until you say yes, so your card never gets charged without your okay.\n\n## Best price every time\n\nWe automatically price match all available options for online ordering.\n\n## Seconds to reorder\n\nAsk your AI what you ordered last with Layout and it will automatically place the order for you.\n\n## You're in control\n\nNothing gets placed until you say yes, so your card never gets charged without your okay.\n\n## Seconds to reorder\n\nAsk your AI what you ordered last with Layout and it will automatically place the order for you.\n\n## Best price every time\n\nWe automatically price match all available options for online ordering.\n\n### **Does it work with every restaurant?**\n\n**Pretty much, yes. We work with virtually every restaurant, and we are building direct contracts to make it even more seamless and totally free to users.**\n\n### **Do I have to sign in every time?**\n\n**No. You sign up once through the connector and that is it. After that you just ask ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or whatever AI you use to place an order and it does it. You will never even notice Layout is there.**\n\n### **Is my payment safe?**\n\n**Yes. Your card is tokenized once and every order runs through a scoped one-time virtual card. Merchants never see your real card details.**\n\n### **Does it cost merchants anything?**\n\n**No. Layout brings AI orders straight into a merchant's existing system at no cost and takes no cut.**\n\n### **Is Layout live yet?**\n\n**We are early. Ordering is moving to AI agents and we are building the layer that makes it work across every restaurant.**\n\n## Building a software? Ship ordering with Layout.\n\nLayout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering. One connection gets you real pickup orders at roughly 95% of U.S. restaurants that take online orders.\n\n## Building a software? Ship ordering with Layout.\n\nLayout is the transactional infrastructure for AI food ordering. One connection gets you real pickup orders at roughly 95% of U.S. restaurants that take online orders.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai", "canonical_source": "https://layout.link/", "published_at": "2026-09-30 08:55:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-30 09:19:49.359310+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols"], "entities": ["Layout", "ChatGPT", "Claude", "Grok", "Starbucks"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-layout-order-food-anywhere-with-ai.jsonld"}}