Restaurants Can Now Opt-out of Google's Online Food Ordering

Here is how the businesses can opt-out of "Order Online"

Beginning of 2019, Google started to showcase the option of "Order Online" for the restaurants in India & the United States.

Google Order Food Online


Earlier this year, in order to make the search experience simpler for the users, Google introduced the option of “Order Online” button on the knowledge panel on the SERP for the restaurants in India and the US market. This button lets the user order food from that particular restaurant through the integrated food ordering and delivery partners of Google.


An additional Call-to-Action button on the SERP was also noticed highlighting this new feature and trying to draw the attention of the searcher to view the menu and order food online.

Call to Action extension


Since the inception of this new feature, the restaurants had no option but to show the “Order Online” button on the knowledge panel on Google SERP. However, Google has now introduced an option where the restaurants, who are not interested in showing this “Order Online” button on their knowledge panel can actually opt-out of it by filling this “opt-out form”.

Order Online button on Google Knowledge panel


This would definitely be helpful to the restaurant’s owners who were forced to show this button by Google. However, filing the “opt-out form” will only help the restaurant’s owners to remove the “Order Online” button from the knowledge panel but Google will continue to showcase the 3rd party features like the ads and order links.  

Order food online on Google knowledge panel

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