Most restaurants have allergy sheets with the name of symbols for the allergens but not the shapes that are used to show the allergen in each dish. What do a solid black circle ⚫️, empty triangle and empty square ⬜️ mean? I’m assuming the dashes – mean that there is none of the allergen in the dish.
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Circle usually means the particular allergen is in there, and you’re correct that the dash means it isn’t in there. I’ve never seen the empty square in this context, triangle usually means something akin to “possibility of cross-contamination” (in packaged food items it would mean that the product itself does not contain the allergen but is made in a factory that also produces other items that do have that ingredient on the same line), but if there is a fourth symbol then it may have a different meaning.
There should be a description under the table that say what each symbol mean.
Generally ● would be that the allergen is present. △ mean possibly and/or contamination. Not sure about □. But for allergy, you better confirm with the staff instead if you don’t know.