Common understanding of (hot) food 'takeaway' and similar tags

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This thread is somewhat related: What does the phrase `No seating, but not takeout only` mean in SCEE? - Help and support - OpenStreetMap Community Forum

This thread can also apply to certain cold foods like ice cream.

Insight into my dining habits: Normally, I only eat at home. Alternatively, if I’m out all day, I will buy a sandwich or a snack from a supermarket or convenience shop. I very occasionally go to a fast food place, get hot food and take it with me to eat - on the way or at the destination. This is my understanding of takeaway. I generally don’t phone ahead or use the web to order food.

On the wiki page: Key:takeaway - OpenStreetMap Wiki it says “The key takeaway=* is used to indicate if customers can make a purchase that is to be picked-up at a later time (for instance, to purchase a meal to be consumed elsewhere.)”

When I get takeaway, I go in, order, pay, wait 1-15 minutes and walk out with my food. The wording “to be picked-up at a later time” seems heavily overstated, nuanced or lost-in-translation. It sounds like I go in, say “Can I get a pizza in 3 hours time?”, pay, leave, go a see a film, have a drink and go back and collect my pizza in exactly 3h00m00s.

So, I’m thinking that takeaway=yes/no/only and similar concepts need to be looked at carefully. There is a range and any particular place selling food might facilitate any or many of them:

  • Eat-in / sit-down; includes outdoor dining at the location. This could be divided into table service -v- counter service, but I think that is an aside.
  • Standing only; no seats available, but there might be some form of bar or table where you can stand and eat.
  • Nowhere specific to sit or stand, e.g. a food truck, food hatch, or kiosk.
  • Take-away.
  • Drive through.
  • Call-and-collect / click-and-collect / pick-up.
  • Delivery.

So, I’m thinking that yes/no/only should be changed to yes/no and all of the above options offered for all types of food establishments.

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No, it should be correct. It simply means the common case of ability to order remotely, and pick it up later when you go there. If you want to add whether it’s not possible to order remotely, customers must stay in a queue somehow, or specifying a time, that’s a further detail to be added in other attributes.
You didn’t explain why not =only

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why? How you tag place where you can only and solely pick up food to eat, but you cannot eat at a given place (say, kebab fast food with no seating whatsoever at all and no dedicated space to eat)

that "at a later time " surely is weird and should be fixed and mismatches actual use of takeaway? Maybe someone mangled it? I would check wiki history

unless my understanding of “takeaway” completely mismatches actual meaning

I assume that visiting say fast food kebab, ordering it, waiting few minutes (like you would for eating at a fast food place), and taking it immediately after it is made counts as a takeaway if you will, well, take it away from place where you bought it

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edited to

The key takeaway=* is used to indicate if customers can make a purchase that is to be picked-up (for instance, to purchase a meal to be consumed elsewhere.)

if anyone disagrees feel free to revert and mention it here so it can be discussed futher

but it seems to be a clear mistake

edit was made in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:takeaway&diff=prev&oldid=3078467

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Does that include something like Google Maps?

Public seating & tables in a pedestrian mall. They don’t belong to any particular food outlet, but are open for anybody to use. So you can buy takeaway from a shop with no seating of their own, then walk outside, sit down & eat.