Let’s just say you wanted to be cheap this holiday, and instead of ordering a drink of a menu you brought your own beverage. Would you consider that a dick move? Even if you’re already spending money at that restaurant?
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Yes. Unless byo alcohol and they may charge a corkage fee
corkage fee..?
Was gonna bring a bag of goon so there's no bottle nor cork 🥴
To pay per person for glassware, washing and service.
What if I bring my own glassware and my own person to serve?
@michaelTito: Then you're basically at home and there's no point going out. You should put someone in the kitchen too to cook your food.
you dont want to buy drinks there, either dont drink (or ask for tap water) or dont go.
(unless its a BYO restaurant and you're talking alcoholic drinks).
its not a case of being cheap.
why not just take in some food from coles while you're at it also?
Yeah, OP may as well get take away and do what they wish.
Don't go to the restaurants if you're this cheap. Cook at home, could be a better experience.
If you're paying corkage for BYO, sure but last I checked eating out isn't an entitlement. Also you can always choose one that has reasonable prices for drinks.
I've never seen a place with a $20 fee. $2.5 per person is pretty normal from what I've seen.
@coffeeinmyveins: I've never seen it charged per person and $2.50 seems cheap … that would encourage people to bring in esky's :)
just because you've never seen it, doesn't make it fake … vietnamese place around woodville about 7 years ago (ex gf's father would always take his own wine - i don't like BYO)
@weezlebub: To be fair, the reason they allow it is probably because in Vietnam; it's acceptable to bring outside drinks if they don't have it available.
It is not however acceptable in most Australian restaurants unless it's BYO or you are bringing a really nice bottle of wine. At a restaurant I previously worked at, corkage was $50 per bottle so unless you were bringing Grange, it wasn't really worth it
Bullshit.
Nowhere lets you being spirits in. This would be an absolute nightmare for responsible service of alcohol
Nowhere lets you being spirits in.
I've been to many restaurants that do… Also some allow beer too…
@Adz81: Bar Reggio
Website: www.barreggio.com.au
Address: 135 Crown St, Darlinghurst
Phone: (02) 9332 1129
BYO: $3.00 per person; beer, wine or spirits
Plenty of Chinese restaurants allow it too. Not uncommon to see a bottle of Baijiu come out for celebration dinners.
If I'm already paying $80 for two people for a meal, I'm bringing my own bottle.
to a non byo restaurant…sure you are…
I've heard when he does everybody claps
I want you to know dchurch1 - I upvoted you.
You'd probably buy one meal to share.
You can cook better than a professional chef?
I can.
No idea who and why you have been negged !!
You might not be able to cook/present the professional "way" but no one can claim the taste or recipe to be any inferior.
Or see if they can do takeaway and add what ever you like at home.
Absolutely a dick move unless it's BYO & you pay corkage.
If not byo, it’s illegal to bring alcohol from outside a licensed premises into it for consumption
I'm cackling
This is gold!!
Please don't have kids.
In fairness, I totally get why someone with the username "Hardlyworkin" would be afraid of a perfectly efficient market. :P
People who squawk about the free market know the least about it, and apparently equating BYO drinks to inflation.. Do you also bring home made coffee into Gloria Jeans because it's cheaper?
No. I have a Nespresso. But on the question: why stop at drinks, why not bring the food? I have considered bringing sauces and/or rice.
Look like it's a lifestyle choice. I'm surprised OzBargain is not on-board with it but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Evidently:
Save money on drinks at good restaurants ❌ way too cheap
Find strange hacks in some McDonalds app to save money on hamburgers ✅ time well spent
Why not do a home cook meal and take it to a nice comfy air conditioned restaurant to eat?
Even cheap has standards.
@Ughhh: Okay but that makes no sense:
However you calculate it - it's way way better to enjoy your food at home than take it to a restaurant. It's way better value to picnic than take it to a restaurant too.
@markathome: Lol. Why haven't you factored the cost of wear and tear of your furniture and air con? The cost of cleaning your cutlery and dishes. Even if you bring your own, you can save $$$ by washing them in their bathroom and use their water. I mean if you're gonna bring your own rice, might as well go full, it's important to save money to keep a perfect market!!
Why do you drink Nespresso?
You should buy beans wholesale, roast them and have your own grinder/machine.
In your train of thought, you're throwing money away. Clooney thanks you for donating to his new yacht though.
@jerimiahhalls: It's a very good question jerimiah! And the water costs have been a bit of a problem Ughhh. So I use the communal facilities.
Seriously guys have your fun, but your proposals make no sense. Keep things in perspective. I am not purchasing what - at cost - is a $0.60 can of drink.
This is not going to spell the end of hospitality in this country. Especially as it appears, I and couple of other guys in this thread are the only ones who do it. I don't run out of restaurants or make spurious complaints about the food. I just, on occasion, bring my own drinks.
By the way, if everyone bought their own drinks if the soft drinks were priced above $2.50 (which is my threshold). Surely you'd see rush on restaurants reducing the price of their soft drinks to $2.50 (they'd still make a pretty huge margin at that price). How would that not reduce inflation? Even if restaurant soft drinks are not in the inflation basket, actual inflation - not measured - would surely have decreased?
Huge inflation on $2.50? You've obviously never employed people in Australia or paid commercial rent. There is a little more to factor in than just the wholesale price of a soft drink.
And let me play the Columbo card. One more thing…
I hardly ever use UberEats, Deliveroo, etc. They reportedly take up to 30% of the price of orders. So all these people shocked by me saving a couple of bucks on drinks but don't care at all what is likely far more that is lost to Uber/Deliveroo.
God, I hate this mentality. Someone has to pay for wages, rent, produce and still make a profit. Alcoholic drinks needs licences and trained staff to serve it.
If you don't think the price is reasonable then don't buy it and order water instead.
What is the correct mark up for drinks?
What the market decides sleet, what the market decides.
No, I'm asking you if you think it is so expensive or then what is a fair mark up for drinks?
It's Ozbargain, not OzTightArse.
Most resturant margins are pretty slims. They make alot of these on drinks they sell, esp softdrinks. Pretty sure you'll be ask not to bring them in.
I worked in a asian buffert restuarnt for a number of years.
What I saw got sneaked in were:
Asian buffet? Did it not come with free tee?
it did come with free tea and coffee.
Hence the WTF, I guess our Tea isn't good enough for you.
If that's the case then surely that's okay to bring your own tea?
@dust: Went to a Yum Cha place that had a corkage equivalent for tea so guessing it's a thing in China.
Yeah Asians can be picky with our tea. Not kidding.
I’m assuming this is the same type of place that would kick you out if you brought the Sydney Swans starting line up in to “all you can eat”.
Do you have any stories of people eating too much?
yeah, they usually end up at the toilets or halfway there.
Would they get kicked out for bringing in wooden spoons?
Taken away? You're joking right. Like you would confiscate it?
yeah. Like at kinder when you have you're toys take away. You can have them back at the end of the day.
Drinks are big money makers, if someone bring in a 2L bottle of coke is essentially $20 (4x glasses) or more in lost profits for the restaurant.
Back then it was roughly $20 a head for a meal so it's quite a substantial amount of money if it not taken care of. You have large groups of people bring in 10 or more bottles it adds up to lost income.
Don't know why people would drink soft drink at a buffet anyway (instead of eating more prawns)
Yes. If you want to be cheap cook and eat at home. Restaurants that do allow it will charge "corkage" and likely a holiday surcharge on the whole menu this time of the year and that doesn't align with being cheap.
it's a valuable life lesson,
do it and report back here what happened..
Just get drunk at home then go out for dinner.
Or eat at home then go out for air.
Tried that once. Didn't make it to the front door!
Front door of the restaurant or front door of your house?
LOL. My place! Luckily there was a bean bag by the front door for a snooze.
Even better, didn't waste money on going out and still got wasted
True, I should have ordered takeaway and invited friends over as well. Home booze always cheaper than going out, just don't go too hard otherwise might not make it out at all! Valuable lessons in life.
Pretty sure you'd be kicked out if you actually did this.
Ha, I used to work at small local restaurant, had a couple come in with their own 2L coke bottle and asked for 2 glasses and ice!
I'm all for saving money, but there's a time and place and a line that can be crossed.
Charge them wine bottle corkage, it will be more expensive than the 2l bottle of coke.
it will be more expensive than the 2l bottle of coke.
pot of coke is ~$3 and 285ml. so the 2lt bottle is roughly $21 loss for the restaurant. especially with ice added. I doubt the corkage is that much.
I think you are missing the point.
The couple were unlikely to purchase two litres of coke from the restaurant, hence why they brought their own, so no $21 loss to the restaurant (you're not even taking into account cogs).
You can't lose what you didn't have or wont have in the first place
Corkage is equivalent to let's say to two glasses of coke, probably as much as the couple would have likely purchased from the restaurant in the first place.
@dasher86: the problem is that if you let it slide the first time it's bound to happen again. Considering the resturant will have other pardons, it will also send the wrong message across. Corkage aside, the restuarnt only has a finite number of glasses.
If they're being used for BYO drinkers + water, they're a chance there won't be enough for those wanting to buy drinks.
I had to check who the OP was lol
Why not save even more money, bring your own food as well!
Could also bring extra and sell to other diners to make a bit of extra money too!
OP, have you never been to a restaurant before?
Only time I see people get away with such behaviour is if they have young kids and the restaurant's fare is not suitable for them.
it's their first big day to a resturant. Next question? is there a secret menu item i should be trying?
depends on how much dignity you have.
Quite often it's a licensing issue. The venue is responsible for all patrons, and that includes what they drink and how much. Imagine if a customer brought in a bottle of vodka and started to chug it.
Also the restaurant is there to make money, and that includes on drinks. I don't buy wine in restaurants because I don't like paying $12 per glass when the entire bottle costs that much.
also venues have agreements between Coke or Pepsi. So they would get into a bit of trouble allowing drinks on site.
I do it at casual restaurants, not high end ones. Usually get bubble tea when ordering asian food. Nobody bats an eye.
Usually always get water, free and no hassle at all.
Would you consider that a dick move?
Why go half dick when you can go full dick? Just order a Coke and when they ask what food you'd like just pull out a bbq chicken and a tub of pasta salad. You're "already spending money at that restaurant".
Ahahhahahahhaha. Also ask the waiter for some tomato sauce to go with the chicken!
Well, some restaurants are BYO alcohol - it stands for Bring Your Own (corkage and whatever might apply).
I would consider it rude to bring anything else from outside to consume in a restaurant's dining room - particularly if that item is available on their menu.