Trademark Class 43: Restaurants, cafés and accommodation
Serving food and drink to people, and putting them up for the night. The class for every restaurant, café, bar, food truck and hotel.
“Services for providing food and drink; temporary accommodation.”
Official class heading, Nice Agreement, Eleventh Edition. Published by the USPTO.
Typical goods and services in class 43
- Restaurants, cafés and bars
- Food trucks and catering
- Takeaway and delivery kitchens
- Hotels, B&Bs and short-stay rentals
- Coffee shops and juice bars
Example of pre-approved USPTO wording for this class: Restaurant services. Using the USPTO’s own ID Manual language keeps your filing fee at the base rate — describing your goods in your own words carries a surcharge of $200 per class.
Commonly confused with class 43
These look like they belong here and do not. Each one is a separate class with a separate $350 government fee, and a class cannot be added to an application once it has been filed.
Packaged food and drink sold as products
Class 30 — Coffee, bakery, snacks and condiments
Beverages sold in bottles or cans
Class 32 — Beer and non-alcoholic drinks
Travel booking and arrangement
Class 39 — Transport, delivery and travel
Event venues hired for entertainment
Class 41 — Education, training and entertainment
A café that also sells its own bagged coffee beans is operating in two classes: class 43 for the café, class 30 for the beans. This is one of the most common two-class filings we see.
Filing in one class
A single-class application in class 43 costs $350 in USPTO government fees, paid to the government, plus our flat fee of $199 — $549 in total. Every additional class is another $350. Government fees are current as of 18 January 2025.
Work out how many classes you need Check if the name is taken
This page describes how the USPTO groups goods and services in general. It is not legal advice about your application, and the lists above are written for the common case rather than being exhaustive. Which classes you actually need depends on what you sell, and a licensed attorney confirms them before anything is filed.
Classes either side of this one
Class 41 — Education, training and entertainment
Teaching, training, publishing and entertaining. If you make content or run classes under your brand, this is your class whatever the subject matter.
Class 42 — SaaS, IT and design services
Technology delivered as a service. If customers log into your product rather than downloading it, you are in class 42 — and quite possibly in class 9 as well.
Class 44 — Medical, beauty and wellbeing services
Care delivered to a person, animal or plant — clinical, cosmetic or horticultural.
Class 45 — Legal, security and personal services
The last class, and a mixed one: law, physical security, and personal services that do not fit anywhere else.