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RE: How much will you pay for restaurant corkage?

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In Reply to: RE: How much will you pay for restaurant corkage? posted by mkuller on May 04, 2015 at 20:58:26

$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!)

:)

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Wait a minute... - mkuller 22:10:37 05/05/15 (2)
...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...
- RE: Wait a minute... - Inmate51 09:53:22 05/06/15 (1)
  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
  - You're starting to sound like my Wife! - jimbill 09:59:10 05/06/15 (0)
    That is how she justifies her frequent shopping bargains.

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