Ordering a coffee at the bar

¿Me pones un café?

meh POH-nes oon kah-FEH — Can I get a coffee? (literally: "will you put me a coffee?")

"Buenos días, ¿me pones un café con leche?"
Morning, can I get a coffee with milk?

This is how people actually order at a bar in Spain — "ponerme" with tú, even to a waiter you've never met. It sounds blunt in English, but here it's completely normal and friendly.

"My first full sentence of the day, most mornings, at the café on my corner."— Graciela