お待たせしました。
Omataseshimashita.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
- Word for word
- “I made you wait.”
- Politeness: Polite
- です/ます style. The safe default with strangers, shop staff and colleagues.
- When you would say it
- When you arrive, or bring something that was ordered.
- Worth knowing
- Staff say it with the food; you can answer 大丈夫です.