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i first heard of a corkage fee this summer and it weirded me the heck out. what do you mean people bring their own bottle to restaurants? isn't the point of those kinds of places that they select a wine that goes well with the food?
not that i can even drink wine but still...
Because of your drinking problem?
no because the sulphides combine with my medication to give me turbo-hangovers after a quarter of a glass.
but the airplane explanation is funnier so yeah, it's that
Then you might bring your own sulphide free wine and pay the corkage fee.
i feel like that's more of an allergy thing than a preference thing though.
There's a spray/drops you can use to remove sulfides in wine
Sometimes people will bring a bottle from a particular year (year they got married on a big anniversary date) or will have some other particular sentimental reasoning for this, so it’s not very often.
sure but if it doesn't happen very often there's no real reason to charge for it?
maybe it's differing alcohol cultures, idk. according to some bullshit map i saw years ago i live in the "vodka belt", so maybe i'm too drunk off of ambient fumes to get it.
Yes but the up-charge on wine is absolutely obscene and can frequently be more than what they earn on the food. Additionally, the places that can get away with this are the kind of places where arguing about what would be a relatively small charge on the bill would be so incredibly awkward that you wouldn’t dare.
So it’s extortion basically, but fancy.
so the reason i haven't seen it is probably the alcohol tax that adds 50€/liter of pure ethanol to every beverage. it's just not useful here.
wait.
as in, every beverage has 50£ worth of pure ethanol added to it? if so..... no wonder Slavs are always depicted as drunk off their asses LOL
or is it a 50£ per litre of pure ethanol on each pallet of alcoholic beverages (eg... 2l of pure ethanol adds 100£ of tax to the pallet price)?
a 10% ABV half-litre bottle will have 2.5€ in tax added to its price for the ethanol content.
Here's a non-wine related thing often charged by restaurants: a cake-cutting fee. The restaurant offers desserts which you won't be buying, and yet they are supplying you with plates and forks, and they will keep your cake safe in the kitchen until dessert, bring it out to be admired with maybe candles and a song, or a toast to the happy couple, then they'll cut and plate and pass the slices, and afterwards they'll wash the dishes. So they charge a fee to pay for the people and supplies.
We had a birthday party at a sushi train restaurant and brought a rainbow cake. We'd agreed to pay $20 or something over the total of all the sushi everyone ate. They turned down the lights and sent out the cake as individual slices on individual plates each with a lit candle flickering on it, and the teenagers loved it, which is pretty hard to do because teenagers.
ok that's cute
If there was no charge then everyone would bring their own, and they would have to start charging more for the food to make up for the loss.
If you think about it, there are hundreds of thousands of combinations of wine labels and vintages from thousands of producers. Some people who collect the wine and store it at home will want to enjoy the wine they have with a professionally prepared meal, and will bring that wine to a restaurant, and enjoy the entire service aspect of it (pouring into nice glasses, etc.).
It doesn't make much sense for ordinary bottles of wine. So the people who do this usually bring special, hard to find, significantly aged, or sentimental bottles. And because the restaurant still provides the service of opening and pouring the wine into nice glasses that they'll clean, there's usually a per bottle charge added to the bill.
So it's not super common, just also not super rare, either.
Ayyyy I do this a lot if I don't know the place. I've spent a lot of time and effort figuring out what I like and have a collection to match my preferences.
If they have the styles and regions I like I order off menu, if not I got mine. $30 corkage is reasonable for a decent restaurant, I know a dive bar that does $10 and a bunch of us go there for snacks and to bust out bottles to share.
All good bottles should be shared.
So if I'm following you correctly, you bring a bottle to a restaurant and pay them to pull the cork and I guess give you glasses?
It's a fee for them to serve the drinks you supplied on their premises. You don't get to use their premises and wait staff for free just because you supplied the drinks.
And chill and decant if they're fancy.
Protip, boxed wine doesn't have a cork, so they can't charge you for de-corking it.
The absolute BALLS you need to go into a place that likely has a dress code and slam a box of wine on the table when they ask what you'd like to drink.
I almost want to do it now.
Not even use a glass, just hoist the bitch up above my head and drink right from the spout.
No need to be uncivilized. Bring your finest solo cups.
I'm in, there's some under rated box wines out there.
That’s where the little known “goon bag” fee comes in.
Going to the restaurant you pay the most for the place simply existing in time, space and rent.
Not always, it's just a fee for brining your own wine.
Some municipalities do not grant liquor licenses to restaurants so BYOB is the loophole.
I've only seen it in practice when someone is throwing a large party and wants to bring their own cheaper wine. It can even be the exact same wine.
Paying the full restaurant markup on the wine can be excessive if you hold a wedding for 70 people and if you can find it much cheaper from tax free or bulk purchase. It would still make sense to pay the corkage fee then.
Where I live bring your own places would be cheap end restaurants not ones that pair the right wine with food.