Google has sued the company behind the online food ordering service BeyondMenu, claiming that it has misled restaurant owners into thinking it's associated with the search giant.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by lawyers at Cooley, Google accuses Kydia Inc. of misleading business owners to get control of their restaurants' “Google My Business” listings to direct consumers to the BeyondMenu ordering platform.

A  BeyondMenu representative reached by phone Wednesday directed a request for comment to the email address listed on the company's website. Officials at Rosemont, Illinois-based Kydia didn't immediately respond to an email message.

According to Kydia's website, it takes a 5 percent commission from orders placed through the BeyondMenu platform. Google claims that BeyondMenu representatives have purported to be affiliated with or endorsed by Google when reaching out to restaurants to market their platform. Google claims that BeyondMenu has taken advantage of the “Google My Bussiness,” or GMB, platform to direct orders through its platform to generate commission.

According to Google, BeyondMenu has collected information from restaurants who don't yet have a GMB account to pass Google's verification process. For restaurants that already have accounts, Google claims that BeyondMenu has convinced restaurant employees or owners to hand over Google-assigned PIN numbers to take over access and direct the restaurant's business listings to BeyondMenu-built sites to generate orders.

“Indeed, several restaurants have complained that BeyondMenu creates these autogenerated websites without the restaurant's authorization, and that the websites are of poor quality, display incorrect information, and divert consumers from the restaurant's real website,” wrote Google's lawyers at Cooley. “Restaurant owners or employees disclose information to defendant because they are led to mistakenly believe that they are communicating with Google, or with an entity that represents or is affiliated or associated with Google, the GMB service, or other Google services.”

Google is pursuing claims of trademark infringement, federal unfair competition and false designation of origin, and breach of contract based on BeyondMenu's alleged violation of GMB's terms of service. The suit seeks an injunction barring BeyondMenu from claiming any association with Google or using its trademarks. The suit also seeks a finding that BeyondMenu's infringement of Google trademarks was “deliberate, willful, fraudulent, and without extenuating circumstances.” Such a finding could entitle Google to three times the damages and attorney fees and costs associated with the lawsuit.