Two Lines. You Joined the One That Never Sits Down
To say dine-in / eating here in Japanese, say 店内です (tennai desu).
Your app said just queue. One of those lines is takeout. It never sits.
In this video
- 店内です。 tennai desu. Dine-in. We're eating here.
- いいえ、店内です。 iie, tennai desu. No, we're eating here.
Kanji in this phrase
- 店内
- てんない
- 持ち帰り
- もちかえり
Why this phrase
Kofuku is the tourist in a two-line queue outside a ramen shop. Hana is staff at the door. Textbook vs real: one crowd is not one line. Staff split お持ち帰り and 店内. Join the bag line, wait twenty minutes, and get a plastic bag. Hana asks お持ち帰りですか？ Kofuku answers 店内です. Distinct from the konbini tax question 店内ですか and from the register bag-or-tray ask.
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