Google Maps appears to have dropped OpenTable table booking

Google appears to have switched off restaurant table booking via OpenTable right inside Google Maps. According to Search Engine Roundtable, the company removed its help document "Make OpenTable reservations in Google Maps" — and a disappearing official help doc usually means the feature itself is gone too.

There's no official statement from Google yet, so this is a signal rather than a confirmed decision. But pulling a support document is a classic sign that an integration has been retired or moved to a different booking mechanism. Restaurants that took bookings through OpenTable from their Maps listing should pay attention now.

What we know so far:

• The help document about booking via OpenTable in Google Maps was removed.
• The reservation button on restaurant listings reportedly no longer leads to OpenTable.
• Google has made no official comment as of publication.
• Google has long been building its own "Reserve with Google" mechanism.

For a restaurant, the booking button on the listing is a visible conversion point, and any change to it hits guest flow directly: venues that took bookings only through OpenTable may simply have seen requests stop arriving, with diners left puzzled about why the button no longer works. The quiet disappearance of a help document sounds routine, but changes like this at Google tend to surface only after the fact — through owner complaints and a dip in visit numbers. It's telling that Google has long been building its own "Reserve with Google" mechanism, so the silent removal of the OpenTable integration reads like a natural continuation of that push — even if the company itself hasn't explained anything yet.

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