Food to go = para llevar

Question

Some Mexican resaurants say "para llevar", but others say something like "¿ahí o allá?" for "here or to go?". Do I have that right?

Answer 1

they could be asking you: ¿para aquí o para llevar? --- For here or to go?

And because they might be talking very fast you think you hear: ¿Para aquí o para allá?

There is one "para" at the beginning, but I've heard it hunderds of times and I'm pretty sure they're not saying "aqui". "Aqui" is a word they taught us in the first grade to say during roll call, so it's probably the Spanish word I know the best. - lorenzo9, Nov 13, 2009

Answer 2

"Para llevar" is what I know it's right. The other sounds like an expression borrowed from the English. I've never seen it so far.