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...these days restaurant wine mark-ups seem very high so I often bring a bottle of my own wine to dinner.
I have seen corkage fees range from $10 to $25 in a high end place locally.
But I was floored in New Orleans this past weekend at Commander's Palace.
Their fee is $10 per person drinking the wine up to $40 per bottle and we had 4 drinking it.
I had picked up a 2013 Seghesio Old Vines at the local grocery store for $23. It was $65 on their wine list so I saved $2.
How much will you pay?
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$10 max. Otherwise, I'll drink Scotch or a Black Russian, or water, or maybe I'll buy something from their list by the glass.
I think it's common knowledge that restaurants, especially the more upscale ones, mark up their wines by a pretty hefty amount. That's why I rarely buy a bottle from them.
Go ahead, call me a wine snob. ;)
Fortunately, our favorite restaurant doesn't charge us anything when we bring our own wine.
I think you made a tactical error in paying the $40 corkage fee. Your cost was $63 for one bottle. Had you bought their wine for $65, and kept your $23 bottle, your average cost per bottle would have been $44 - much more 'palatable' in my book. (Also, remind me not to go to that restaurant!)
:)
...having paid the corkage, if I go out and buy another bottle for $23 my average price would be a $1 lower - $43.
Even more palatable...
Yes, but:65+23+23=111
(The bottle you should have bought at the restaurant, the bottle you already bought and could have/should have taken home, and another bottle yet to buy to bring your average cost down.)
111/3=37
Since that scenario is now moot, if you buy a case (instead of another bottle) and get a 10% discount ($20.70/bottle), then you have:
63+(12*20.70)=311.40
311.40/13=23.95/bottle, which is very near the per bottle price at the store.
A classic example of "the more you spend, the more you save".
:)
Edits: 05/06/15
That is how she justifies her frequent shopping bargains.
$15 is about my limit. Although your story shows again the outrageous markups in many restaurants.
...ironically we ate at Patois, which was not as high end, the night before in NO and the Seghesio was priced at $69 - triple the grocery store price.
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