: a charge (as by a restaurant) for opening a bottle of wine bought elsewhere
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The City Council amended the statutes regarding two types of liquor licenses related to corkage fees.
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Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: The current ban is just on the sale of alcohol — diners can bring their own, but restaurants can't make as much money off corkage fees as actual sales.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
Customers were permitted to bring their own wines (sans corkage fee) and even their own spirits, but our server noted with an amusing and skillful improv of a guest cradling an imaginary bottle, many of them felt weird about it.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024
These fees range from additional tips intended to maintain pay parity between the wait staff and the kitchen staff, to city health mandate fees, to corkage fees for diners who bring their own bottles of wine for dinner.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
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Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: The current ban is just on the sale of alcohol — diners can bring their own, but restaurants can't make as much money off corkage fees as actual sales.
—Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
Customers were permitted to bring their own wines (sans corkage fee) and even their own spirits, but our server noted with an amusing and skillful improv of a guest cradling an imaginary bottle, many of them felt weird about it.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2024
These fees range from additional tips intended to maintain pay parity between the wait staff and the kitchen staff, to city health mandate fees, to corkage fees for diners who bring their own bottles of wine for dinner.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
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“Corkage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corkage. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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