As I am living here in Bangladesh, I’ve never heard anything like this keyword - takeout. I’ve searched in google that what does it mean actually by takeout. Then I found this is not a familiar term here in my country.
The Terms Vs Familiar Country
Takeout is familiar in U.S, Canada, & the Philippines
Carry-out or To-go is familiar in Scotland,US, Canada.
Take away or take away food is familiar in U.K. other than Scotland, Australia, South Africa, & Ireland, and occasionally in North America
Takeaways (New Zealand)
Parcel ( India, Pakistan & Bangladesh)
So basically Parcel is a known term for ourselves. As a lot of guides face problem with this non-familiar term then how they will answer properly? Shouldn’t google ask the local guides with the familiar terms in their country?
Does this place All-you-can-drink option?
Google asked me about a restaurant this question - " all-you-can-drink " like the following fig-1.2.
I understand your issue. As you know Google is an American company. Hence much of the American culture and customs are embedded in how Maps work.
Take****out is when you buy your meal at a restaurant and bring it home or somewhere else to eat it. I think Parcel is a likely translation.
Goodviews is also a bit strange to us living in Denmark. But I believe it means if there is a nice scenic view from the restaurants.
All you can drink means flat rate, so you don’t pay extra for refills to your drink after the first cup. This is normally softdrinks.
Order ahead means you are recommended to call first to make a reservation of a table. This could also be done online in some places. (pks see @JeroenM 's better reply on this).
I don’t know if the local guides team can suggest the translation to your language to be improved. But since your screenshots shows that you have set your phone to English language, you need to also document what terms are used in your national language.
Or if English is an official language in Pakistan? Which English version are you then using?
Does this place offer takeout?
Takeout in this context is an English expression that means does it allow you to buy a hot meal that you can take away to eat somewhere else.
all-you-can-drink or all-you-can eat
certain restaurants or clubs allow you to pay a fixed price for an “unlimited” amount of food or drink. It is not really unlimited, because you have to eat or drink it there during that particular visit or the given time limit. In some of these places you have to be careful, because they charge you extra for the food you leave on your plate (did not eat), because they claim you paid the fixed price for the stuff you eat or drink!
Does this place let you order ahead?
I think this is very American. To save time you do not only make a reservation for your table, but you actually inform the restaurant what it is you wish to eat, so the chef can prepare himself. The only time I come across this frequently in Europe is with Paella in Spain. This requires a lot of prepping and you do not wish to order it in the restaurant and wait an hour for it to be freshly cooked.
Good Views?
I am surprised you could not guess this one yourself. Some establishments are places where you are not only going for the good food and/or service but where the great vistas (what you can see outside) are a unique selling point. So looking over a lake, a beautiful garden, etc. from the restaurant would be a yes to this question.
Happy Mapping New Year and have a great Holiday Season.
JeroenM
We posted our responses seconds apart, hahaha, @MortenCopenhagen .
As you can see, I do not agree with your definition of the Order Ahead question. Google has a different question that asks if it is recommended to book a table in advance. This is about ordering your food in advance. It is very common in the context of a take-away Chinese or Pizza place. You call them an hour ahead of what you wish to order and pay and collect at the agreed time.
Hi @Dr_Shah_Imran thank you for reaching out. This may be an issue when you are not used to answering questions like these, once you search their meaning using Google search or other sources yiu will be able to do it more easily next time.
You have already searched it and got answers, what I will advice you to do is to understand meaning of these terms, most of them they are U.S due to defualt langueges from our devices.
We raised this issue before to the local guide team and I am sure they are working on it as we would like to see questions asked based on the local languege for that country or city.
The all you can drink mean that you pay a certain amount and have something like a self service, without limit on what to drink.
The take out is the same thing as take away. Order ahead is like ordering online and collect at the shop or restaurent instant of them delivering to you. Good view mean s place that may be romantic, attractive such as the roof top, lake or green pastures when viewing from that particular business or location.
Hi @Dr_Shah_Imran now you have multiple best answers to choose from. All the replies from @JeroenM and @MortenCopenhagen are correct, you can see that they are related. I hope all your qiestions have been answered.
Hay americanismos, esto es forma de expresarse en la cultura de América de habla inglesa que se entienden poco, pues les pertenece a ellos.
Uno de los problemas que yo tuve, fue frente a la pregunta, si un lugar de comidas tenia " hora feliz " . @JeroenM preguntando, yo pude saber que era una " hora feliz" : Horarios donde hay promociones de comidas en ese lugar. Pero hoy en día en mi país, cadenas de comidas internacionales, no tienen hora feliz, ni con ese nombre u otro nombre, no hay horas para promocionar comida.
En América del Sur “pedir por adelantado” también es similar a España, lo que no implica que sea un restaurant ,con o sin chef, sólo que ellos acepten preparar la comida antes de que tu llegues al local, comas en ese lugar o levantes la comida y te la lleves.
Es bueno estar conectados aquí en Connect para entender expresiones culturales que nos preguntan en Maps y tienes el tiempo muy limitado para contestarlas.
Estemos preparados y marquemos la diferencia , somos Local Guides!
Besides answering your question @Dr_Shah_Imran , I have to agree with @MortenCopenhagen , @Raphael-Mahumane and @LuaPL . Many of the questions are not relevant and clearly based on the American way of things. There are also lots of nuances that can make the questions ambiguous and thus most likely get a lot of wrong answers from the crowdsource. In addition, there are plenty of examples of poorly translated examples.
Ambiguous Example:
Certain places offer you free refills of your drink. Sometimes just with coffee and sometimes with your (self-serve) non-alcoholic beverage. I have been to a restaurant in Germany where they had their own home-made cider (with alcohol) and you paid a fixed price for one cider, but was allowed to go for free refills with your meal. Would you answer “yes” to the question if they have an all-you-can-drink option?
Personally, I would not see “free refills” of a certain item the same as all-you-can-drink offers, but like I said it is ambiguous. Google is fully aware that there are sometimes issues with the questions they ask and that is why we can FLAG A QUESTION.
When it comes to training us, there should be a definition (explanation of the intent) of each question be attached to the question cards. That way, the short sentences on the card can be explained and we can inform ourselves how we should interpret the questions. Feel free to add it to the Idea Exchange and tag me so I can support the idea.
That is true @JeroenM this is an old topic, cerafully check on idea exchange, I am sure you will find an existing idea about this topic, if not, it can be added. On my side I used to open two browsers, one with Googlr Maps and the other with Search, to help me udersatnd the meaning of these terms, since they are not what we know locally.
