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All the staff at my local coffee shop ask “for stay or for takeaway?” They never deviate from this exact script and I find it grating every single time. Coffee
by lexh 3y ago
All the staff at my local coffee shop ask “for stay or for takeaway?”
They never deviate from this exact script and I find it grating every single time. Coffee is decent though so I let it slide.
Edit: “local” meaning Southern California.
- bee_rider 3y agoThat’s bizarre, is the owner British or something? “Here or to go?” is the standard in the US as far as I’m concerned.
- golergka 3y ago"Takeaway" is also the term used in many non-english speaking countries (by waiters who speak very limited English).
- joelegner 3y agoI prefer "to go" over "takeaway" for two essentially meaningless reasons: First, _go_ is older than _away_. According to Etymology Online, go dates back to Old English ("gan"), while away in sense of "at a distance" is from 1712. Second, I get to save a syllable. So "to go" is older and less effortful than "takeaway". Also, both work.