Corkage
Cork money (also: cork money ; in Austria mostly called stubble money , in Switzerland more like cone money ) is a fee that guests in restaurants pay for the consumption of drinks they have brought with them in order to compensate for the company's loss of profits. It is based on a free agreement between the operator of the restaurant and the guest, which must be made in advance. The amount can be more than half the price of the corresponding drinks in the restaurant. However, such agreements are not uncommon for banquets such as weddings.
The fact that drinks are usually brought in bottles and the amount of compensation is determined based on the amount consumed, as it were from the number of corks pulled , explains the term.
The term is rarely used in the sense of bribes .
Closely related to cork money is the so-called fork money or basket money . Some restaurants collect it if customers bring their wedding cake or birthday cake with them to celebrations, so it represents a fee for the use of the cutlery.
In Australian , British or New Zealand restaurants , a corkage fee is usually required if guests are allowed to bring their own alcohol, mostly wine, and sometimes beer. Such places are marked with BYO .
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- ↑ Cork money trial from 1914.
- ↑ Menu card of a restaurant in Munich (PDF; 85 kB) accessed on January 15, 2012.
- ↑ Regulation of a play park accessed on January 5, 2020.