Recently I’ve noticed across-the-board obscene mark-ups on bottles of wine. For example, last week I enjoyed a simple California zinfandel at a local restaurant that was $45. When I went to get a bottle at my local retail...

It’s already marked up so much.

I understand that different companies can get vastly different deals on wine that may or may not be reflected in their offering price. The actual % markup a restaurant charges above what they paid for me doesn’t really...

Is wine by the glass a total ripoff?

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that as the price, the markup is just about expected. Re: young wines. Not sure you can blame the restaurant. I assume that previous vintages of the same wine have sold out and that the '06 will sell out before it’s...

a “deal” on the price, suggesting magnaminity by the owner or waiter. the go-go years of the 90’s saw two infamies: 200% —300% markups and the expansion of a scanadlous swindle regarding corkage fees in...

The general issue of wine markups isn’t a Manhattan-specific issue. If you’re looking to start a discussion of the issue at all restaurants, please repost on the Not About Food board. If you want to limit the...

I’ve always read that grocery store mark-ups are typically found between 5 and 20%. Lower on staples, higher on luxury items.

at a specific restaurant, they will often cut a deal and drop the price accordingly for that account only. Note also that the markup for wines sold by the bottle is a different thing. As an aside, no wine is worth the BTG price...

Okay, so the average glass price is equal to the average wholesale price of the bottle. $8 a bottle wholesale, $11 a bottle retail, $8 a glass in the restaurant, $32 a bottle, Roughly 300% markup. What do you think is a reasonable...

While I personally feel that anything more than 100% mark-up on retail – especially for wines 5 years old or less – is excessive, in the end it is the restaurants choice to set price and my choice to agree to those...

Citronelle has its own 200 to 300% markups on wine plus few bottles in the under $60 or so range for reds. In fact most are well over $100. I’ve found that most better restaurants have markups like this and, as you note,...