Corking Fee and Tipping Mike P I totally agree with your plan and have followed it for years. We just went the other night to one of our favorites where no corkage is imposed, providing you give the chef-owner a taste. For a wine lover, it is exciting to share. At the end, instead of having a corkage charge on the bill and thinking about the final tip, the waiter gets his normal tip consistent with the level of service and as a final gesture, I shake his hand with a cash renumeration. The majority of restaurants that charge outrageous corkage fees don't get much of our business and the tips are adjusted accordingly, if we even go there. We seldom go to any restaurant that doesn't allow us to bring our own wine or that charges huge corkage fees. The only time we go to those kinds of restaurants is when we are guests and someone else with an expense account is picking up the check. Actually, in some of the smaller neighborhood places we frequent, they not only don't charge or perhaps impose a token minimal charge and don't get insulted when we bring our own opener and know that we want to pour the wine ourselves. Are we considered wine snobs? Why not....life is too short.... 
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