How to say "carry-out" in Japanese

• テイクアウトCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers the food sense of 'carry-out': buying prepared food to eat elsewhere. A katakana loanword heard constantly at restaurants and cafes, often on signs reading テイクアウト可.
• 持ち帰りもちかえりCommon
  nounAlso covers the food sense: takeout or carry-out of prepared food. The native word, used in signs and by staff alike, and slightly more traditional-sounding than the loanword テイクアウト.
  ここで召し上めしあがりますか、それともお持ち帰もちかえりですか。↗

  Is this to eat here, or to go?

For food you buy to eat elsewhere, 「テイクアウト」 is the common loanword and 「持ち帰り」 the native equivalent; choose either by tone or fixed signage, as both simply mean takeout food.

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• テイクアウトtakeout (food)
• 持ち帰りもちかえりtakeout (food)
• お持ち帰りおもちかえりtakeout (food)