Every ordering site ships with search engines switched off by default — the menu, checkout and home pages carry a noindex tag until a restaurant deliberately turns that off in Settings. That's not a limitation; it's a deliberate default, because most restaurants don't actually want strangers finding their ordering site through Google.
Who the ordering site is actually for
The people placing orders on it almost always arrived some other way: a QR code on the table, a link on a receipt, a mention in a text message, a bookmark from last time. The ordering site's job is to be fast and familiar for people who already chose you — it isn't competing for "restaurants near me" the way a marketplace listing does.
Getting found on Google is still worth doing — it's just what your marketing site is for, not the ordering flow itself. That distinction is why the two are treated differently: the marketing site wants to be found; the ordering site wants to be fast.
When it's worth switching on
If your ordering site's URL is the only web presence a customer would find for you — no separate marketing site, no strong social profile — indexing it can be the right call. The setting exists in Settings → Search engines for exactly that situation.
What doesn't change either way
The admin, kitchen display and driver views stay hidden from search engines regardless of this setting — there's no scenario where turning on indexing exposes anything beyond the public-facing menu, checkout and home page. Order tracking pages, which can carry a customer's name and address, always stay noindex too.
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