Its something restaurants charge when you bring your own booze. Often times when something like a wedding rents out a whole restaurant and wants to bring their own stuff, the restaurant charges a corkage fee.
Most charge an exorbitant fee to incentivize getting the booze from them and it leads to situations, where a party pays 30€ to serve a 8€ bottle of rum.
What is “corkage fee”?
Its something restaurants charge when you bring your own booze. Often times when something like a wedding rents out a whole restaurant and wants to bring their own stuff, the restaurant charges a corkage fee.
Most charge an exorbitant fee to incentivize getting the booze from them and it leads to situations, where a party pays 30€ to serve a 8€ bottle of rum.
It’s when restaurants or wine tastings let you bring your own wine but open it for you and charge for that