Google has added a control restaurants have asked for for years: they can now turn off a third-party ordering provider on their own Business Profile in Search and Maps. Lisa Landsman, who leads Google's work with small businesses, announced it in a LinkedIn post on October 28, 2026. A Google product manager was asked in the comments which countries have it. The answer was one word: all.
It applies to any food business that shows up on Google with an order button, from a restaurant or pizzeria to a café or a takeaway counter. In most cases the owner never added those links. Delivery apps connect to Google through their own integration and send it the list of restaurants they work with. Under Google's policy for ordering providers, last updated on October 19, 2026, every such integration is switched on by default.
The provider used to hold the switch
A restaurant that wanted an app off its profile could ask, but the request went to the provider, and the provider had to act on it. Google's help page gives providers five business days to take the link down, and a restaurant whose request is ignored can report a violation.
The May 2026 version of the provider policy put the whole burden on the provider, which had to give restaurants a way out of its feed, such as a removal form or a support ticket. The current version says a business can enable or disable a provider's integration directly through Google's own controls, at any time. Providers still have to drop any restaurant that asks to leave, and must remove a restaurant that stopped using their service within five business days.
Two toggles per provider
The setting sits in the Business Profile under food ordering. Pick a provider from the list and a panel opens with two separate toggles, one for pickup and one for delivery. A restaurant can keep an app listed for pickup and hide it for delivery, or the other way round.
As of October 28, Google's help page does not yet describe the new toggles. It covers three older actions: removing a provider's link, marking a provider as preferred for pickup or delivery, and a general switch for accepting orders on the profile. Turning that general switch off hides every third-party ordering option at once, including an ordering link the restaurant added itself.
Hide it or keep it
Landsman does not suggest turning everything off. In her post she wrote that diners tend to order through apps where they already pay for a subscription or have a card saved, so keeping those apps listed can hold on to an order that would otherwise go elsewhere. She also suggested reviewing which providers are active on the profile and checking that each link leads to a current menu.
Each restaurant has to weigh that on its own. A provider that takes a high commission, sends orders at hours the kitchen cannot handle, or shows an outdated menu can now be hidden without ending the contract. A restaurant with its own ordering system can mark it as preferred so it shows first for pickup, delivery or both.
Still unanswered
Google has not said whether the setting can be changed across several locations at once, or through the interface agencies and chains use to manage profiles. Commenters on the post asked and got no reply. A chain with several branches should assume for now that each profile needs its own check.
One more point from the policy: a new provider integration arrives switched on. A restaurant that signs up with another app, or that an app adds to its feed, will see it on the profile until it turns it off. The provider list under food ordering is worth opening every so often, not once.