When I want to take the food out of a restaurant so that I can eat it at home ( not in the restaurant), how can I ask this to a waitress?
I heard people ask me " for here or to go ?" a lot, so I assumed I have to use "to go" to ask this question but I'm not sure how to use it in a sentence if I'm the one who's asking about it first.
What I came up with are those:
" Can I take out the food to go?"
" Can I have the food to go?"
" Can I order the food to go?"
Do they sound okay?
Is there any better way to ask this?
Best Answer
is a very common usage. Normally you would make such request at the time of ordering, so using order is better than have.
In:
take out and to go basically mean the same thing so this statement comes across as repetitive.
However, take out is often use as an adjective describing a kind of food:
This form is usually hyphenated.