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For example in Taiwan I want to ask the people making my latte to put less honey in. So how would I translate:
Today, please put in less honey than yesterday.
My bad translation attempt (added afterwards)
你們今天比昨天請用蜂蜜得少
I know that's bad, please don't laugh! Help me :)
I would say, "麻煩幫我放比昨天少一點的糖／蜂蜜" Less sugar than yesterday, please！I believe it's way formal to use "請".
“请比昨天少放些蜂蜜” for equality translation, but it's a bit of writing style.
For more clear way:
昨天的太甜，这次请少放点蜂蜜。
For example, you can have:
The scale is not absolute, I guess that most shop would understand what you want:
A normal drink, without any mention of sweetness, would be full sugar. So in a full sentence, you may say:
請給我一杯拿鐵。少糖。謝謝
Roughly: please give me (請給我) a latte (一杯拿鐵), less sugar (少糖), thanks (謝謝).
When you talk, you don't talk like a machine. So if that person whom you are asking is a woman (16-80 years old), you say: 宝贝，不用那么甜啦。 If that is a man and older than you, you say: 哥哥，人家不要那么甜啦。If younger than you, you said：弟弟，我不要那么甜哦。
and I highly doubted that you will talk like this to someone in Starbucks: "Today, please put in less honey than yesterday."
If not so formal, make it short and simple in Simplified Chinese: 今天请少加点蜂蜜，谢谢！
Depending on regions and context the level of formality may vary. And in my opinion, the word order varies according to personal logic. For instance, the positions of "less honey" and "than yesterday" may be swapped.
You can say
[麻煩/請][你/您]幫我少放些蜂蜜，相較昨日而言。
(you can choose to drop the words inside the square brackets or pick any combination of them; the right word is more formal than the left one)
But this sentence seems too long and not usual, especially the second subsentence. Instead of making the comparison to yesterday, you can make the comparison to your past habit by emphasizes "today" (and it's more natural since you're not asking the discussant to remember the amounts of honey put yesterday) :
今天[麻煩/請][你/您]幫我少放些蜂蜜。
Finally, since the word「幫」more or less show your gratefulness towards the action you require your interlocutor doing, it's enough to say
今天幫我少放些蜜。
今天(today) 請(please) 比昨天(than yesterday) 放(put) 少點(less) 蜂蜜(honey). Clear enough for every Mandarin even Cantonese speaker. For expressions 走甜/走糖, I'm sure many Mandarin only speakers cannot understand.