diff --git a/nvtabular/ops/groupby.py b/nvtabular/ops/groupby.py
index 93748e4f19..da343a5608 100644
--- a/nvtabular/ops/groupby.py
+++ b/nvtabular/ops/groupby.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 from merlin.core.dispatch import DataFrameType, annotate
 from merlin.dtypes.shape import DefaultShapes
 from merlin.schema import Schema
-from nvtabular.ops.operator import ColumnSelector, DataFormats, Operator
+from nvtabular.ops.operator import ColumnSelector, Operator
 
 
 class Groupby(Operator):
@@ -111,10 +111,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.name_sep = name_sep
         super().__init__()
 
-    @property
-    def supported_formats(self):
-        return DataFormats.PANDAS_DATAFRAME | DataFormats.CUDF_DATAFRAME
-
     @annotate("Groupby_op", color="darkgreen", domain="nvt_python")
     def transform(self, col_selector: ColumnSelector, df: DataFrameType) -> DataFrameType:
         # Sort if necessary
diff --git a/nvtabular/ops/operator.py b/nvtabular/ops/operator.py
index 41b3621643..a0aa99ab6a 100644
--- a/nvtabular/ops/operator.py
+++ b/nvtabular/ops/operator.py
@@ -19,4 +19,9 @@
     DataFormats,
 )
 
-Operator = BaseOperator
+
+# Avoid TENSOR_TABLE by default (for now)
+class Operator(BaseOperator):
+    @property
+    def supported_formats(self):
+        return DataFormats.PANDAS_DATAFRAME | DataFormats.CUDF_DATAFRAME