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LOL again, this law isn't designed to make it easier for everyone to bring their own alcohol from home at restaurants. It's more of a gesture to allow people who already own or want to drink rather expensive bottles of wine/alcohol at a restaurant, to bring their own from home and pay the restaurant for their service.
These people would be people who own $500+ bottles and chances are the restaurant will not have them. These same people are probably who would've spend a fair bit of money at the restaurant themselves anyways so the restaurant isn't really hurting from this, if anything, it's attracting higher end patrons.
Also, it encourages larger groups to come out more often. We have done this before and we had about 10-12 people with us. The cork fee was $55 but our dinner bill ended up being about $900 anyways. Had we not been able to do this, we would've been enjoying that bottle at home and had the get together catered by another company.
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