On 7 Jul 2005 11:28:08 -0700, Sheldon wrote:

>
>
> sf wrote:
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > > As mentioned in my previous post, the province of Ontario has recently followed
> > > Quebec's practice of allowing BYOW restaurants. You can bring whatever wine > > > you want.
> >
> > I really like that practice. It's a win-win situation. The customer
> > can bring a wine of choice that hasn't been marked up 3-6 times and
> > the restaurant doesn't have to deal with drunken customers.
>
> How does drinking ones own booze prevent drunkeness?!?!?

For starters they won't bring in the entire case of booze.

> If the booze costs less I'd think folks would typically drink more. DUH
> And you EXAGGERATE, wine/liquor is not marked up 3-6 times... actually
> it's marked up about 100%, about the same as food...

100%? You mean 2x retail??? What dream world do you live in? I can
think of only 1 restaurant that charges 1.5 - 2 times retail.

> next you'll whine
> about why you can't bring your own steak... oops, I mean tube steak.
>
> And restaurants will lose money from loss of alchol sales, which will
> cause food prices to increase, causing those who come to eat more
> rather than drink more to pay more in order to subsidize the BYOWers.
>
> There's no free lunch.
>
> Yours is a lose-lose situation.
>
> You don't want to pay bar prices do your boozing at home and eat out at
> the Golden Arches, it's what you do anyway... but I'll bet bar prices
> are just fine when you hook some man to buy.
>
Yeah, yeah, yeah.