What does ¿qué te pongo? mean?

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what can I get you?

What you hear at the bar of any Spanish café. The verb is poner, not traer or servir, and it comes in tú except in very formal places. Its variants are ¿qué va a ser?, ¿qué os pongo? and, in the south, a plain ¿qué tomas? If you are waiting for "good afternoon, how may I help you", you will be waiting a while.

—¿Qué te pongo? —Una caña y una tapa de tortilla.
The whole transaction, in two lines.

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