   |  BYOWApril 14, 2009 at 12:10 am by john
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal last week about a restaurant in New York that is not just waiving corkage on Sundays to encourage customers to bring their own wine, they're celebrating the idea by discussing each wine with the customer and giving them a corkscrew to keep. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we recently had dinner in Carmel at a restaurant that charged us $45/btl corkage. They had a nice view but....$45? Ouch. In a year where restaurants are dropping like flies, we wonder what you're experiencing with your favorite restaurants. Is the economic pinch pushing customer service back to the forefront where it belongs? Leave a comment  Janibanis06 said:Hooray for cheap corkage fees! We recently had dinner at a local restaurant and brought our own wine. Dinner was acceptable, the wine was phenomenal. The corkage fee was $20 for a bottle of wine that costs us $16 (huh?). Needless to say, we won't be bringing our business to that establishment (local or not) anytime soon. May 28, 2009 7:30 PM Rebecca said:We've noticed some swankier places offering affordable tasting menus, sometimes with wine pairings, which feels like a good banance between responsibility and novelty. September 20, 2009 5:42 PM |
Thank you for instituting a $5.00 corkage fee (and for picturing the monkey above). $10 is just feelin' impossible these days; don't even get me started on $45. Oh, and RE: customer service, we're bending over backwards to work with our clients, getting creative wherever we can, but that one guy in customer service at National City -- the bank holding that goddamn Sword Of Damocles equity line over our heads -- deserves to have his flesh ripped by weasels.
April 17, 2009 2:39 PM