Bottle cap fee can also be called corkage fee, is a hotel or restaurant for customers to bring their own drinks set the threshold. The corkage fee is an overbearing clause that is prohibited by the Consumer Council, but is ignored by many hotels.

The real corkage fee. Is the liquor producer, in order to stimulate the sales volume of the factory liquor to the hotel's service staff of an incentive mechanism. Let's say, a bottle of red stone beam beer on the market to buy 2.5 a bottle, in the hotel to buy 5-6 yuan a bottle, but this is not included in the corkage fee.

A waiter in his own responsibility in the box or hall guests consumed how much alcohol, he can collect the bottle cap or logo of the drink and then save their own. After a certain period of time, a week or a month, the producer of each drink will come to the restaurant or a designated place to collect the bottle caps or labels.

Then the manufacturer's price - 50 cents to 10 dollars to collect these caps and trademarks, and then give the money to the waiter, during the period and the hotel is not at all related, that is to say, the so-called corkage fee is in fact a kind of liquor merchants to the catering industry service personnel incentive mechanism. There is no profit to be made by the restaurants.

Expanded information:

Beijing, for example, although the regulations in the first, but the "corkage fee" still

More people read a few sentences afterward and don't call us at the time to report. We hope that consumers can effectively protect their rights and interests, in the catering consumption if you find the operator to use the contract format terms to exempt themselves from responsibility, aggravate the responsibility of consumers or exclude the rights of consumers, you can call the 12315 hotline to report.

When you need to order food in advance, you can go to the website of 'Capital Window' or 'Beijing Industry and Commerce' to download the model text of 'Beijing Food Ordering Service Contract' and use it to avoid unnecessary disputes.

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