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BB19
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 Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: Restaurants versus Take Aways |
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Hi,
I'm new here, so sorry if this is a dumb question:
I've been submitting a few POIs, based on local knowledge, but I'm not sure how to categorise a take away. There are categories for Chinese Restaurant and Indian Restaurant (and indeed Fish and Chips). Should a Chinese take away be put in the Chinese Restaurant category? This might potentially be annoying if you were looking for a restaurant (to sit down for a meal) and drove to it only to discover it's only a take away.
I suppose "Take Away Only" could be added to the details, but all the same, I wondered if there should be separate take away categories.
Cheers.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: |
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If you can't sit down to eat, it isn't a Restaurant. However, how about adding (T) to show that it is also a Takeaway (Carry Out to Northerners) or (T/O) to show that it is only a Takeaway?
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | a Takeaway (Carry Out to Northerners) |
Northern Americans please, Tim - Northerners speak English proper like (Eee Ecky Thump!).
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Tim Buxton
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: | | a Takeaway (Carry Out to Northerners) |
Northern Americans please, Tim - Northerners speak English proper like (Eee Ecky Thump!). |
No, I meant Northerners. From Nottinghamshire up to Scotland I've been given puzzled looks if I've asked where a Take Away is. Then I'm told it's a Carry Out I need.
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DennisN
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Since I got old, I don't get out a lot. I just thought anywhere south of Doncaster was both Southerners and Down. Maybe that's the problem.
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Tim Buxton
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| DennisN wrote: | | Since I got old, I don't get out a lot. I just thought anywhere south of Doncaster was both Southerners and Down. Maybe that's the problem. |
Ah well, I'm from the Midlands, where we confuse both Northerners and Southerners alike. Each group thinks that we belong to the other, whereas in reality we belong to neither.
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BB19
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: |
No, I meant Northerners. From Nottinghamshire up to Scotland I've been given puzzled looks if I've asked where a Take Away is. Then I'm told it's a Carry Out I need. |
Naa. I live north of Nottingham, and they are most definitely "take aways". See http://www.standrewsdirectory.com/entry/marmaris-takeaway.html for an example!
Anyway, are you proposing adding "(T)" or "(T/O)" to the Details field?
Cheers,
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Tim Buxton
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| BB19 wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: |
No, I meant Northerners. From Nottinghamshire up to Scotland I've been given puzzled looks if I've asked where a Take Away is. Then I'm told it's a Carry Out I need. |
Naa. I live north of Nottingham, and they are most definitely "take aways".
Anyway, are you proposing adding "(T)" or "(T/O)" to the Details field?
Cheers,
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Perhaps it's a personal thing, then. I was also told that an Off Licence was called a 'Beer Off'! Have you ever heard that?
As to the proposal, no idea. MaFt?
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | As to the proposal, no idea. MaFt? |
Surely, you mean Oldie. 
PS. Sorry to call you Surely. 
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |
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what the hecks a carry out and a beer off?!!!
we call them takeaways and offy's!
pois are richards forte so not up to me
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | Perhaps it's a personal thing, then. I was also told that an Off Licence was called a 'Beer Off'! Have you ever heard that? |
No, never heard that one! |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | Since I got old, I don't get out a lot. I just thought anywhere south of Doncaster was both Southerners and Down. Maybe that's the problem. |
From the South and as a Southerner, North and Northerners start at Luton, anywhere past that point is foreign as "Timbuktu". 
When a Northerner is on television you need sub-titles.
Edited: Twice due to my terrible spellings, will have to learn to use Microsoft Word first.
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| GJF wrote: | | From the South and as a Southerner, North and Northerners start at Luton, anywhere past that point is foriegn as Tim Buck Two. |
Humph!
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What is that "North speak" for?
I hope it isn't rude!
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| GJF wrote: |
What is that "North speak" for?
I hope it isn't rude! |
Jazz man?
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