Restaurant Emoji — Copy and Paste
Two characters do the work of restaurant: Fork And Knife, and Fork And Knife With Plate. Both are here with codepoints, along with the bowls, chopsticks and takeout box, and a section on how guess-the-restaurant riddles are built.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
The two characters people mean by “restaurant”
Fork And Knife is the older and plainer of the two: two pieces of cutlery, nothing else. Fork And Knife With Plate adds the plate, which is why mapping apps and listing sites use it to mark a place that serves food. If you are labeling a venue, use the plate version. If you are labeling a meal, the bare cutlery is closer.
| Character | Unicode name | Codepoint | Added | What it is used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🍴 | Fork And Knife | U+1F374 | Unicode 6.0 | Eating, lunch, “food” in general |
| 🍽 | Fork And Knife With Plate | U+1F37D | Unicode 7.0 | A restaurant, a place setting, a booking |
| 🥢 | Chopsticks | U+1F962 | Unicode 11.0 | East Asian restaurants, takeout |
| 🥄 | Spoon | U+1F944 | Unicode 9.0 | Soup, dessert, a stirring joke |
| 🍜 | Steaming Bowl | U+1F35C | Unicode 6.0 | Ramen and noodle places |
| 🥣 | Bowl With Spoon | U+1F963 | Unicode 11.0 | Breakfast, cereal, soup |
| 🧂 | Salt Shaker | U+1F9C2 | Unicode 11.0 | Seasoning, and “salty” as a mood |
| 🥡 | Takeout Box | U+1F961 | Unicode 11.0 | Delivery and leftovers |
| 🍳 | Cooking | U+1F373 | Unicode 6.0 | A kitchen, a chef, breakfast |
Why the plate version sometimes turns flat and gray
U+1F37D defaults to text presentation. On its own it can render as a plain monochrome glyph rather than a color picture. The color form is the codepoint followed by variation selector U+FE0F, and most keyboards insert that for you. If you paste the bare codepoint into a field that strips modifiers, expect the flat version.
How the vendors draw them
Fork And Knife is a simple two-object pictograph and looks close to identical on Apple, Google, Samsung and Windows. The plate version varies more: the rim thickness, the angle of the cutlery and whether the plate is white or shaded all change between platforms. Steaming Bowl is drawn as ramen by every major vendor, with broth, noodles and usually chopsticks resting in the bowl, so it reads as Japanese noodles rather than “a hot dish”.
Guess the restaurant by emoji
A chain riddle is almost always one food character plus one non-food character. This page supplies the food half. The other half is a crown, a bell, an animal or a letter, and those live outside the food and drink set.
| Chain type | Food half (copy it above) | The half you have to add |
|---|---|---|
| Burger chain | 🍔 | A crown, or a clown face |
| Taco chain | 🌮 | A bell |
| Sandwich chain | 🥪 | A train or a tunnel |
| Fried chicken | 🍗 | An older man’s face, or the initials |
| Doughnut and coffee | 🍩 ☕ | Usually nothing; the pair is the clue |
| Pizza chain | 🍕 | A domino tile, or a roof |
These are word games, not trademarks. No company owns an emoji, and a riddle only works if the person guessing already knows the chain, which is why the same puzzle lands differently in another country. For a ready-made round that needs no outside characters, use guess the food by emoji.
There is no food truck character
The food and drink set has no truck in it. People build a food truck by pairing a takeout box or a burger with a delivery van from the transport set, and that pairing reads as a food truck only because of context. If it has to be unambiguous, write the words.
The full copy grid is on the food emoji hub, the figurative readings are on food emoji meanings, and the printed marks you see on packaging are covered under fast food symbols.