The full question and list of answer options looks like this:
What kind of seating does this place have?
Both indoor and outdoor seating
Indoor seating only
Outdoor seating only
No seating (takeaway only) No seating, but not takeout only
In the russian version:
Какой здесь тип сидячих мест?
Сидячие места есть и внутри, и снаружи
Места только в помещении
Места только на открытом воздухе
Посадочных мест нет (только на вынос) Посадочных мест нет, но не только на вынос
Does this mean you can order food and/or drinks to go, but you can also eat on the spot, but only while standing? Or does it mean something else?
Or is it an attempt to combine two generally independent parameters of food service establishments—the ability to take away (available in almost all establishments—in our country, you will very rarely be refused a container or a cup with a lid) and the availability of seating for customers.
When in doubt, it’s useful to check which actual tags in the database a StreetComplete answer will add.
To do this, disable automatic uploads, then answer the question and select the answer you’re curious about. Then click the undo button in the bottom left. When you select the edit that you’ve just done, it’ll show the tags. (Now remember to undo it if it’s wrong and you only did it to check the tags.)
What tags does it show? I can’t check because for some reason I don’t have that fifth option. I would guess it’s for places where you can eat/drink on the premises but only while standing.
It is useful for e.g. fast food stands with bar tables, where you can eat your food on-site (so it is not takeaway=only), but there is no seating available.
That’s what I understand it to me. Though unusual, places I’ve encountered this outside of some sort of temporary fair or festival would be at Portland’s Saturday Market (at time of last visit circa 2009, sit-down tables in the food court had mostly been eliminated a decade earlier and the remaining ones reserved for handicapped customers, as the overwhelming majority of tables had been replaced with ones about belly high on average size adults standing upright to encourage crowd turnover and reduce chair clutter that choked the food-court in the 80s and early 90s) or at Tulsa Farmer’s Market (no tables for eating at all, good luck). There was also a Pizza Schmizza (back when they were still good, not straight up a Pietro’s (itself a straight up regional copycat of Shakey’s or Round Table Pizza) with a different sign) location in Fox Tower that was just a window on the street next to the MAX tracks with no seating and a standing table.
I did some research on this format of catering establishments, particularly drinking establishments. In Tsarist Russia, such places were called “zabegalovka” («забегаловка»), “zakusochnaya na nogakh” («закусочная на ногах», literally — “a snack bar on legs”) and “ryndza” («рындза»). In Soviet times, they were called “steklyashka” («стекляшка», ~glass) “ryum” («рюм»), “ryumochnaya” («рюмочная»), “nalivaika” («наливайка»), or “stakan” («стакан», ~faceted glass).
The country is too vast for even the communists to standardize the language of the predominant nationality across the entire territory. Therefore, often some words were in use only in a certain region or even only in a certain city. And these words could be used to determine where a person had lived for a long time. I’ve heard that this phenomenon is common in many places, but most often it concerns only pronunciation and accent, not the vocabulary itself.
In Spain, it’s “bar de pie” (I have doubts about the veracity of this information). In the UK, “standing bar” or traditional “spit and sawdust” pubs (??).
In Spain it’s pretty common to have bars where you drink and have “finger food” (pintxos/tapas) standing, although officially they can’t be tagged like that, because they also usually offer a very small amount of tables (like a 10 m2 place, with a long bar top, 2 tables, and about 50 customers there, inside and out on the streets). So, in practice, they are “no seating”, but can’t be tagged like that.
There are also, now that I remember, some $1 pizza slice places in NYC which are even smaller, but you can eat inside (but no seating at all, just bar tops, with napkins/spices/etc available on these tops). So for these places, this tag combination fits perfectly well.
