Will the Seamless-GrubHub merger kill Yelp?

The two largest online delivery sites are poised to upend online reviewing

Carbo-loading your online food-delivery service
(Image credit: Facebook.com/Seamless, Facebook.com/GrubHub)

Seamless and GrubHub, America's two largest online food delivery services, have announced plans to merge. Together, they boast an impressive roster of 32,000 restaurants and more than 90,000 orders a day.

In 2012, Seamless and GrubHub brought in well above $100 million in revenue on nearly $900 million in food sales, says the Wall Street Journal.

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Carmel Lobello is the business editor at TheWeek.com. Previously, she was an editor at DeathandTaxesMag.com.