Talk:Cover charge

message: Does a cover charge sometimes also cover the cost of things at the business too? I wonder.
That's possible. I added the "two-drink minimum" as a form of an implicit cover charge. What else did you have in mind? SkerHawx 12:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Minimum charge' is not an alternative term for cover charge, it's a different concept. Pol098 (talk) 15:31, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

message: As far as I know the use of "cover charge" as an entry charge where entertainment is provided is a regional US practice, not international; in most countries a cover charge is paid in a restaurant in addition to what's eaten and drunk (in non-English-speaking countries exactly equivalent terms are used, couvert, coperto, cubierto), and this is coming into US usage too[e.g., www.ehow.com/list_6893760_revolving-restaurants-new-york.html]. This is about the term "cover charge", not what is done; an entry charge is often levied where there is entertainment, but it is not called a cover charge. The article has references confirming that "cover charge" applies to restaurants.
Investigating a bit further, I find that "cover charge" is used in many different ways:
* the main international use of charge in a restaurant in addition to food and drink
* the main US use of entry fee if entertainment is provided
* a flat charge for unlimited food (US-only, I think; different words are used elsewhere)
Less usual:
* a minimum charge for a meal (the logic: charge "per cover", i.e.,per diner, not less than xxx)
-*a charge to people who book but don't show (example in article).
Pol098 (talk) 16:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  US usage 

message: Uh, maybe I missed it somewhere, but it was not clear to me as a reader as to who are the beneficiaries of the cover charge.  For example, in the US does all of the money go to the hosting establishment and they pay a contracted (fixed) fee to the performers, keeping any overage (writing off any deficit)?  Or, is the performers earnings determined by the cover charge, with them paying a fixed fee to the hosting venue to cover the establishment's costs?  Or, is the division of the funds determined on a percentage basis (i.e., the venue gets 25% and the performers 75%, for example)?  Obviously the arrangement will vary, but I am interested in knowing what are the most common arrangements, or what is customary in the US, for example.  This seems a very interesting, but missing, part of the article.  Jdevola (talk) 19:49, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beneficiaries? 

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