--- title: Beyonce Ordering Food at a Restaurant Photo Becomes Meme description: Beyonce's Instagram photo showing her speaking to a server at a restaurant became an instant meme. canonical: https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-27T13:12:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T08:52:02.000Z og:title: Beyoncé's Candid Restaurant Photo Became an Instant Meme og:description: "I actually invented Lemonade so it should be free" og:url: https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt084d4df163f5b8c4/6988be1bcd1bba8c2a704480/beyonce-mom-mentorship-program.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 59th GRAMMY Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyoncé's Candid Restaurant Photo Became an Instant Meme twitter:description: "I actually invented Lemonade so it should be free" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt084d4df163f5b8c4/6988be1bcd1bba8c2a704480/beyonce-mom-mentorship-program.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé Just Birthed the Most Hilarious Meme With This Candid Restaurant Photo by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:52 AM UTCPublished: Apr 27, 2017 1:12 PM UTC  Beyonce poses in the press room at the 59th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Beyonce poses in the press room at the 59th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.Jason LaVeris-FilmMagic by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:52 AM UTCPublished: Apr 27, 2017 1:12 PM UTC A photo of [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4631309/beyonce-lemonade-impact/) ordering food at a restaurant became an instantly iconic meme overnight. On Wednesday night, [the _Lemonade_ singer](http://time.com/4658035/beyonce-pregnant-twins-celebrity-reactions/) took to Instagram to post a mini-photo album of pictures from a night on the town that had everything including her outfit, her accessories, flowers, and fashion photos showing off her [baby bump](http://time.com/4658035/beyonce-pregnant-twins-celebrity-reactions/). But most importantly, it had a photo showing the artist speaking to an attentive server while she was pointing to a menu. The candid photo became instantly iconic as the internet went all meme on it with funny captions that imagined Beyoncé’s instructions for the server. Beyoncé just knows her way around the internet. Bless her for elevating the dinner order to an art form and spawning endless hilarious-but-reverent possibilities like most things she does. See below for a sampling of the best takes. > [](https://twitter.com/%5FKingBlack90/status/857404418840563713) > [](https://twitter.com/Keelectric%5FLady/status/857427194569732096) > [](https://twitter.com/animalfriespls/status/857425061590048773) > [](https://twitter.com/synewaive/status/857420476351524865) > [](https://twitter.com/HolyAlejandro/status/857400056692998145) > [](https://twitter.com/sawngbyrd28/status/857395210040598528) > [](https://twitter.com/EatMyHeartOut%5F/status/857403419581194241) The original gallery garnered nearly 2 million likes as of Thursday morning. Click through the slides below for the meme-worthy photo. Beyoncé’s [twin-pregnancy announcement](http://time.com/4656949/beyonces-birth-announcement-internet-reactions/) is now the most liked picture on Instagram. TIME confirmed that this photo was taken by Nico “Neeks” Ramos at the L.A. restaurant Beauty & Essex during a birthday celebration. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/"},"headline":"Beyoncé Just Birthed the Most Hilarious Meme With This Candid Restaurant Photo","datePublished":"2017-04-27T13:12:43.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T08:52:02.000Z","description":"Beyonce's Instagram photo showing her speaking to a server at a restaurant became an instant meme.","url":"https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt084d4df163f5b8c4/6988be1bcd1bba8c2a704480/beyonce-mom-mentorship-program.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt084d4df163f5b8c4/6988be1bcd1bba8c2a704480/beyonce-mom-mentorship-program.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"59th GRAMMY Awards - Press Room","caption":"59th GRAMMY Awards - Press Room","creditText":"Jason LaVeris-FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4757292/beyonce-restaurant-memes/","name":"Beyoncé Just Birthed the Most Hilarious Meme With This Candid Restaurant Photo"}}]}] ```