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Cafe Charging you to drink your own drink a

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  • #52
    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    There is a little cafe, pizza/ tapas type place , I went to tonight for dinner. Food is lovely, place is lovely,and all that.
    But they don't have a bar only sell wine.
    Your allowed to bring your own cans/bottles of beer to drink but they charge you €1.50 to drink your own beer that you brought.
    This has to be the handiest few quid they will ever make.

    You are paying for the glass it was served in, the seat you sat on, the light that meant you could see said drink........ oh and also the heat that kept you warm while you drank your own beer.


  • #53
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    BabysCoffee wrote: »
    You are paying for the glass it was served in, the seat you sat on, the light that meant you could see said drink........ oh and also the heat that kept you warm while you drank your own beer.

    So what were we paying for with the rest of our €70 dinner bill ?


  • #54
    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    So what were we paying for with the rest of our €70 dinner bill ?

    Your food!

    Seriously do you really think you can walk in to a cafe and drink your own beer for free?!


  • #55
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    So what were we paying for with the rest of our €70 dinner bill ?

    We told you. The corkage...


  • #56
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    BabysCoffee wrote: »
    Your food!

    Seriously do you really think you can walk in to a cafe and drink your own beer for free?!

    No, but if a family of 5 come in for dinner and spend €70 I do


  • #57
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    No, but if a family of 5 come in for dinner and spend €70 I do

    OP - why don't you read through the thread again? You've been told over and over that the restaurant is entitled to charge corkage if you bring your own drink. You've also been told how corkage works. The food bill is a separate issue.

    Now - if you don't like the idea of corkage? You're quite entitled to take your custom elsewhere. Plenty of restaurants where you can eat and pay restaurant prices for drinking there if they have a licence. E70 for five people ex drinks is a very cheap bill. Hence the corkage...


  • #58
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    Ran a restaurant for 8 years, never allowed people to bring their own drink. Most of the profit came from drink.

    On a separate issue I was always in control of what people drank, things never got out of control.

    On a personal level I would not bring drink to a restaurant myself either.


  • #59
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    ebbsy wrote: »
    Ran a restaurant for 8 years, never allowed people to bring their own drink. Most of the profit came from drink.

    On a separate issue I was always in control of what people drank, things never got out of control.

    On a personal level I would not bring drink to a restaurant myself either.

    But they don't sell drink other than wine so your allowed but thu charge 1.50 per drink


  • #60
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    So what were we paying for with the rest of our €70 dinner bill ?


    Staff
    Produce
    Light/Heat
    Taxes
    Levies
    More taxes


    That is what you are paying for.


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  • #61
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    chillywilly wrote: »
    It's not extortion.

    It reminds me of a (very) small cafe/sandwich shop owner that I know. He has a shop in a small office park and relies on office workers coming in each day for coffee/sambos etc to keep afloat.

    I was having a chat with him and he said people often come in to the cafe and ask him for a slice of bread and not expect to pay for it because "it's only a slice of bread". Another person used to come in with their own pastry and ask him to put cheese on it and toast it for them for nothing! He ended up charging 50 cent each for these requests and proper order too!

    These are largely small business owners who are struggling to stay afloat.

    A person who brings their own beer must realise that the cafe owner is paying for heating, rent, rates, recycling/waste disposal etc etc and for this reason a small corkage fee is well justified in my opinion.

    Great post.


  • #62
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    I can understand them charging if they have beer and you choose to bring yourown but if they don't have beer then what are you meant to do?


  • #63
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I can understand them charging if they have beer and you choose to bring your own but if they don't have beer then what are you meant to do?

    Either pay corkage or take your business elsewhere. This sounds like someone walking into a chipper and complaining that they can't have steak or caviar.


  • #64
    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    No, but if a family of 5 come in for dinner and spend €70 I do

    Why don't your family eat your dinner in the cafe and then move to the nearest field to drink the cans? ......this will save you having to pay corkage.


  • #65
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    But they don't sell drink other than wine so your allowed but thu charge 1.50 per drink
    So what beer did you bring in? how much did it cost you? How much would you have been willing/expecting to pay in the cafe for the same thing?

    €1.50 is cheap, I wish my local pub that would let me bring in my own drink and charge only 1.50 per drink. It would also allow me to have the beers I prefer, and not be limited to their appalling small selection.
    OldNotWIse wrote: »
    I can understand them charging if they have beer and you choose to bring yourown but if they don't have beer then what are you meant to do?
    I would guess they do not have beer since they have no beer licence, some do not want to pay for one or are possibly not eligible. I knew a guy working in a restaurant and said nearly all of them in the area only had wine licences.

    McDonalds have no beer either, would you also ask "what are you meant to do". Most cafes I know would not let you drink you beer, this sounds like a great find. Where is it? there is no naming & shaming going on here.

    Op said himself "Food is lovely, place is lovely,and all that."


  • #66
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    Fair enough, but if your legally aloud to drink, you don't want to go out for dinner and have a glass of coke..

    And yet countless people do, I guess not everyone feels the need to drink alcohol just because they are over 18


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  • #67
    delahuntv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    any chance the OP could tell us where this place is and the name - most posters seem to agree its excellent idea and great value and as the OP said, the food was very good too.

    If it were near me, I'd love to go there.


  • #68
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Meal for 5 for €70 is some value. What the imperative to have beer with the meal is all about defeats me though. Those prices suggest a cheap cafe. Why would a cafe be expected to serve beer? The corkage of 1.50 is very cheap. Overall it sounds like a cheap joint.


  • #69
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    If I'm aloud to name it I will,

    Is that ok mods ?


  • #70
    Stavro Mueller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭Stavro Mueller


    Maybe your aloud but I'm not sure you're allowed.


  • #71
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Please don't name the business in question.

    dudara


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  • #72
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Seventy euro fed FIVE of you, and you're complaining about a cheap corkage charge? Jesus christ, 70 quid is nothing for meals for five people!


  • #73
    kc90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭kc90


    Stavro Mueller wrote: »
    Maybe your aloud but I'm not sure you're allowed.

    Maybe you're able to correct people's grammar, but I'm not sure you should.


  • #74
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Hollister11 wrote: »
    There is a little cafe, pizza/ tapas type place , I went to tonight for dinner. Food is lovely, place is lovely,and all that.
    But they don't have a bar only sell wine.
    Your allowed to bring your own cans/bottles of beer to drink but they charge you €1.50 to drink your own beer that you brought.
    This has to be the handiest few quid they will ever make.

    Who is forcing you to eat there? Let's get to the root of it.


  • #75
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    @Stavro Mueller & @kc90 - Commenting on people's spelling is not cool or constructive. Please don't post unless you're adding to the conversation.

    dudara


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