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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There's always one weirdos everywhere.
Imagine bringing your own drink when its not BYO restaurant. ITS JUST WEIRD.
Most restaurants won't even allow it.
I guess this ozbargain
Shitposting knows no depths
If they allow it, you'll be charged corkage.
This reminds me of the avoiding mini-bar charge post at hotels:
"Check in at the desk and make a strong request for a non-smoking room, possibly mentioning allergies. Refuse help from the bellman and go up to your room unaccompanied. Immediately open the minibar and shove every goddamn item into your suitcase. Then: smoke a cigarette on the bed and gaze out the window. After: call down to the desk and complain about the smoke smell in the room. Request to be moved. Go to your new room, close the door and get fat and salty and drunk on your suitcase of snacks.
They will never trace that minibar to you. Moving rooms in the system, when it's done the same day you check in, leaves almost no trace, no overnight confirmation that you ever occupied that suite. Certainly nothing that allows them to track down those five minutes where you stole $500 worth of individually wrapped snacks."
with hotel mini-bars. All the items are actually placed on sensors. So by moving them it will assume that your purchased it when you checkout. If your after an location to store you good. Ask for the mini-bar to be emptied before you checkin.
also room temperture bottle water is $7 a bottle, don't assume it's free.
That's the higher end hotels and mainly in north america. I've never seen a hotel in australia with the infrared sensors.
I'm not advocating the actions in that post but the author is right.
Also in my experience, hotels NEVER argue with you on anything. As in roomservice etc. When you are incorrectly billed it's like a 10 second convo at checkout and it's wiped off the bill.
There's definitely some in Sydney CBD which have the weight sensor on the minibar.
Stayed in hotels both in Sydney and Brisbane with the minbar sensors, but yes definitely more common in NA, actually in NA we often find the mini bar is only filled on request even in a lot of high end hotels now. Not that we ever take anything form the mini bar as even though I could easily afford it the price gouge just irks me too much, similarly the in room movies.
Also never seen or noticed this.
The first thing I usually do is stack all those expensive snacks into the back corner somewhere to make way for my box of beers that I'm loading in.
Next time i go to a restaurant maybe i should get dominos delivered to me.
If you bring in a coffee from a cafe or bubble tea, ok fair enough.
But if you bring in a cooler bag with 3 bottles of coke and 1 bottle of sparkling water for the missus, ok GTFO weirdo
coffee from a cafe or bubble tea, ok fair enough.
not in a licensed venue. there could be anything mixed in that external drink. allowing it entry breaks RSA rules.
as patrons arrive with travellers I put my hand out for the empties as they arrive. either finish them or not, i'm taking them before you enter. into the bin go the empties and down the sink any half empty.
What kinda restaurant is the question
Fine dining, ok no
Medium to low end dining, fair dinkum mate
You don't have to go to a restaurant on holiday there is no rule that you have to. Go to their local supermarket buy some items cook your own. When my kids were little and we were on a budget when we got to our holiday destination we would do a shop for 70 % of the meals to cook / prepare for the length of our stay back at the cabin / hotel room (with included kitchen) that way we haven't bought too much food and still have flexibility of eating in or takeaway.
Not really but why not take your own food also and get them to heat it up and serve on one of their plates.
I believe there are some liquor licensing restrictions around this, places that sell alcohol likely aren't allowed to have you bringing alcohol you brought from home.
I'd suggest your safest alternative is to bring your own food ingredients, cutlery, perhaps one of those camping stoves.. then you buy the alcohol from the restaurant, but you can cook your own chicken chow main or such to save big cash that way…
Give it a try.. see how it goes.
I usually don't like the cheap wines most pubs offer on their wine lists, so I mostly prefer to BYO….happy to pay corkage to drink nice wine….
Most pubs don't allow byo
yeah BYO requires a special license.
I bring my own keg.
Legally, if they have a RSA (Liquour License), they will have restrictions on Alcohol.
Also, Hospitality makes a butt-tonne of money from resale of drinks.
Buying a can of coke at ~$0.50 and selling for ~$3
They will get pissy at that, and I would not be surprised if they decline service.
Hey Op you use the word 'beverage'. It would be good to know what type of 'beverage' you are referring to. Maybe you are new to our culture. Anyway, most restaurants will allow BYO wine, and you pay corkage. Some allow full byo alcoholic drinks, but they are getting fewer and fewer. You need to ask the restaurant in advance if you don't know their byo policy. I've never heard of a restaurant allowing byo soft drink etc. If you have a special need, for example, non-alcoholic wine/beer, then you need to negotiate with the restaurant.
The amount of people here completely ignorant to RSoA is amazing.
I will often bring my own water.
I would never bring anything the restaurant sells.
Wrong site mate, you're looking for Ozcheapskate.com.au
OP, if there is BYO policy, you are welcome to do it…if no BYO, just ask them before you BYO, if they say yes so no issue, if they say no then no. BTW ignore the guys making rude and unrelated comments like the one about you bring in your own food etc… just ignore them… this forum is welcoming and friendly, normally…
Usually there is a corkage or glass fee ($2 to $5 per person) same with birthday cakes (plate fee). Have taken champagne and birthday cakes to a restaurant for a good friends birthday.
Back when I was a broke uni student, we would take a few flasks of rum and order cokes at the local pub. Went well with the $10 mid-week pub specials haha.
some cringe ass comments in this thread, mine included
I’ve brought my own drinks into some pretty casual places, that’s not being cheap it’s because they don’t have the drinks we want. Ie, bubble tea into a fast food joint.
But unless it’s a fast food chain, I wouldn’t do it.
Some people might not even find fast food chain acceptable, but I’m ok with it but I can see how you could be embarrassed.
My old man loves bread. First time I took him Thai, food comes out, and he's looking a bit puzzled and flustered; calls over the waiter and goes "where's the bread"? Waiter's like "Sir, we don't serve bread here…" Old man goes "what kind of restaurant doesn't serve bread", leaves the place and returns 5 minutes later with a pack of bread rolls to have with his green curry…
Moral of the story, if it's not on the menu, by all means.
If a restaurant has byo, I prefer to bring my own wine and pay the corkage. Apart from that, pay for the drinks or ask for tap water if you're so stingy.
You obviously don't get out much…. this is why they have "corkage"
They will want to charge you for it, so you're better off just buying it off them.
Slightly OT but I remember being charged $1 for a bottle of tap water from a restaurant in Melbourne, I chuckled…
Whether or not it is rude is moot. You are not allowed to bring in outside food or drink* to a restaurant for obvious reasons.
You're not going to get very far with taking drinks to a non-byo establishment.
This reminds me when I was prepping for a bodybuilding show and thus, was on an extremely strict diet. I still wanted to be social with my partner and friends but just couldnt eat out anywhere as I had to be precise with meals. I essentially had to go shove some food in my face in the car and then come back in.
I don't think they would have appreciated me sitting there with a tupperware container on chicken, rice and broc.
their restaurant their rules.
OP obvs young and inexperienced
sure - bring your sneak drinks - then don't be surprised if they charge you additional $2pp fees on your bill - how would you like to pay ?
It is a liquor licencing law that says you cant bring alcohol, unless they have a BYO licence.
Then the restaurant sets the rules and charges.
Food or drink?
Let's say I order a $35 steak but upon consuming (all of it) I feel that the steak is only worth $15, can I just pay $15 and leave my contact details for any legal recourse, should they wish to pursue the additional $20?
BYO is typically wine only - at some restaurants dependant in their liquor licences.
The only time I have ever BYO'd our own beer was a NYE around 2005 in Mlebourne's China Town at a cheap as hell $6.99 Chinese restaurant.
Not sure what we ate that night, but it was cheap, each of us downed a 6 pack in there and it was a fun night.
There used to be a lot of restaurants that were not licenced to sell alcohol of any kind, and therefore byo all grog. I think that there may have been a large licencing expense to selling any alcohol then. My gut feeling is that the licencing fees were reduced, and selling alcohol was more worth it.
they also need to apply for a BYO permit ( for Victoria anyway) to allow drinks to be brought onto premise for consumption.
Permits also have a number of restictions including times/days that they can serve alcohol ( Anzac day from 12pm etc).
Most restaurants are BYO wine only. You sound really stingy. Wine is fine but you will pay corkage.
Anything else they will ask you it’s no outside food or drinks.
OP drink water, problem solved.
The thing is….. the drink was free water.
Depends on the restaurant really. Like for example I've been in town with a few people and we've had our own drinks already opened and drinking then suddenly decided to try a Malaysian place that we walked past. They didn't seem to care. I often bring my own water bottle everywhere anyways.
The troll is strong
Why go out?
I find it odd that people think bringing your own drink is equivalent to bringing your own meal to a restaurant, there's BYO restaurants for a reason. Many people would prefer to have complete autonomy over their choice of alcohol with their meal. Also you go to a restaurant for the meal, not the drink. They don't make the drink, they make food. So I think it's reasonable to want to bring your own drinks.
Another point, it's a bit hypocritical to be calling others 'cheap' in a negative fashion on ozbargain.
There are cultural and licensing differences here between States. (I'm in the wine industry and have done BYO across many States for a few years now).
SA: it is common and widely accepted. As some commented earlier most charge between $10-$50 per 750ml of wine, some may restrict the number of bottles you can bring and some Asian restaurants, particularly, in Chinatown may charge $2.5-$5 per person rather than per bottle.
VIC & NSW: Less common. As I understand it in VIC, there are licensing issues why it isn't so widely practiced. The exception again is it tends to be more common in my experience in Chinatown in SYD and MEL.
QLD: Not sure about the CBD, but certainly, again, Asian restaurants particularly suburban ones are more accepting of it.
ACT: Can't remember doing it here but from memory, I don't think its widely practiced.
Rest of the country, no experience so can't speak to it.
We paid $4/head for water from a carafe that I assumed was tap “still water” last night in a non byo restaurant . That was on top of 2 beers, 2 soft drinks and a glass of rose around the table. Next time I’ll byo water to save them the trouble.
Ha, there won’t be a next time
How is this a question?
Common sense really don't be a dick and ruin it for the rest of us.