Asking for an Informational Interview

How do you guys go about asking for an informational interview in an email? Is it a bad idea to explicitly ask for an informational interview or is it fine to be straightforward like that? Where do you ask to meet up?

Sorry for the stupid questions, none of this probably matters but I like to make sure.

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