| 11. | The corkage fee is intended to cover the profit the restaurant would have earned had it sold the customer a wine.
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| 12. | Most would rather not bother with brown-bagging, and that's probably part of the reason corkage fees exist.
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| 13. | 19 . You know the difference between " corked " ( bad ! ) and corkage ( good ! ).
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| 14. | He estimated that when Rubicon opened in 1994, 20 to 25 percent of the customers on some nights paid corkage fees.
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| 15. | Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif ., which once welcomed all wines, now charges a $ 15 corkage per bottle.
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| 16. | A wine list may also disclose a corkage fee for patrons who bring their own wine, in establishments and countries where this is customary.
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| 17. | Depending on the wine you've chosen to bring, the corkage fee may still permit a considerable savings or obliterate any advantage at all.
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| 18. | But the next time a restaurant that serves wine tries to charge you a corkage fee for a bottle you brought, throw the book at them.
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| 19. | Of all the issues that have diners and restaurateurs at each other's throats, the charge for wine corkage is one of the most contentious.
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| 20. | Feeling petulant, I flirted with the idea of running home for a bottle _ but Oliveto charges $ 18 for corkage, which also seemed high.
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