Meaning & use
cakeage fee
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Meaning
nouncountableinformal
A charge a restaurant adds when customers bring their own cake to eat on the premises.
Grammar: Countable, often with 'a' or in the plural: a cakeage fee, cakeage fees.
Patterns
- charge a cakeage fee
- pay a cakeage fee
- a cakeage fee of $10
The restaurant charges a cakeage fee of ten dollars if you bring your own birthday cake.
We didn't mind paying the cakeage fee because the staff cut and served the cake for us.
Some places waive the cakeage fee if you order dessert from the menu.
Word forms
| plural | cakeage fees |
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Common combinations
- charge a cakeage fee
- Many restaurants now charge a cakeage fee for outside cakes.
- pay a cakeage fee
- We had to pay a cakeage fee before they would bring out our cake.
- waive the cakeage fee
- The manager agreed to waive the cakeage fee for our anniversary.
- a cakeage fee of $10
- There's a cakeage fee of $10 per cake.
Synonyms and how they differ
- corkage fee
- This is the charge for bringing your own wine, not cake; the pattern is the same but the item is different.
Commonly confused: cakeage fee or corkage?
cakeage fee vs corkage
Corkage is a fee for bringing your own wine, while cakeage is specifically for bringing your own cake.
Practice
The restaurant charges a small ______ if you bring your own birthday cake.
Choose one answer.
'Cakeage fee' is the specific term for a charge for bringing your own cake. 'Corkage' is for wine, and 'cover charge' and 'service charge' are different kinds of fees.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cakeage fee”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.