Google Just Let Restaurants Turn Off DoorDash and Uber Eats Links From Their Own Dashboard
By UVIDSTUDIO · November 2, 2026 · 7 min read · SEO & AI Search
As of October 28, 2026, Google lets restaurant owners switch individual third-party ordering providers on or off directly from their Business Profile dashboard — no more emailing DoorDash or Uber Eats and hoping they remove a link. Here's what changed and how a Jersey City or NYC restaurant should actually use it.
For as long as Google Business Profile has shown "Order online" buttons under a restaurant's name, the restaurant itself has had almost no say in which delivery apps those buttons point to. If DoorDash or Uber Eats auto-generated an ordering link to a listing, the restaurant's only real option was to ask the delivery app, nicely, to take it down — and wait. That changed this week.
What happened
Google product manager Lisa Landsman announced on LinkedIn that Business Profile dashboards now include controls letting a restaurant switch individual third-party ordering providers — DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, Instacart, and others — on or off itself, rather than relying on each provider to comply. Search Engine Journal reported the change on October 28, 2026, noting that coverage was still thin because the rollout is so recent. Google's own help documentation confirms where the control lives: open your Business Profile, go to the Food ordering section, and toggle each provider on or off, or disable ordering entirely if you'd rather show no third-party links at all (Google Business Profile Help). Turning a provider off doesn't pull your menu from that app — it only removes the ordering button Google itself surfaces on your profile. Previously, the compliance burden sat entirely with the ordering provider, which is why stale or unwanted links from an old delivery partnership could linger on a listing for months with no direct fix available to the business owner.
What it means for small businesses and nonprofits in New Jersey and NYC
This matters most for exactly the businesses most likely to be reading a Jersey City or Hudson County restaurant's Google listing: whoever typed "pizza near me" and tapped the first order button they saw. Delivery apps routinely take 15 to 30 percent commission on an order placed through their own ordering flow, and a lot of that traffic was arriving through a button the restaurant never chose to feature — sometimes from a provider the owner stopped using months earlier. Being able to turn off a specific provider, or all of them, means a restaurant in Hoboken, Jersey City, or anywhere in the NYC metro can finally push map-pack traffic toward its own ordering page, phone number, or a lower-commission platform instead of silently subsidizing an app it has no relationship with. The same Food ordering panel applies to any business with a booking or ordering link on its profile, not just restaurants, so a bakery, café, or catering nonprofit running its own online store should check it too. This sits on top of the same Business Profile dashboard we've written about before — the one that controls whether your restaurant shows up on Google Maps at all, and the one Google has been stricter about letting owners edit lately.
What to do this week
This is a five-minute check, not a redesign.
- Open your Business Profile and find the Food ordering section — it's under the same dashboard you'd use to update hours or photos, not a separate app.
- List every provider currently linked and decide which ones you actually want sending you orders; if a partnership ended, that link is pure margin loss until you turn it off.
- Turn off any provider you don't want surfaced, or disable third-party ordering entirely if you want the Order button to go only to your own site or phone number.
- Give it a few days and recheck — Google's own policy gives providers up to 5 business days to fully remove a link after you request it, so don't panic if a toggle doesn't disappear instantly.
- If you spot a duplicate listing or a profile stuck in review while you're in there, that's a separate, more stubborn problem worth getting ahead of now rather than later.
None of this requires a developer or an agency retainer — any owner or manager can make these changes in the dashboard they already have a login for. Where it's worth a second set of eyes is deciding what to replace those links with: a direct-ordering page that doesn't bleed 20-plus percent to a delivery app, paired with the local SEO work that keeps your listing accurate enough to rank in the first place. If you run a restaurant or storefront anywhere in Jersey City or the wider NYC metro and want someone to audit what's actually linked on your profile before you touch a single toggle, reach out and we'll tell you honestly what's there.