A year after B.C.’s liquor laws were changed to allow people to bring their own wine into restaurants, it looks like the move has been a flop.
Ian Tostenson, the president of the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says people just aren't buying in.
"I think it is negligible. I really have not met a lot of people owning restaurants that say – I mean you will hear the story every once in a while … but not very often."
Tostenson says restaurants with their own wine list have no motivation to market the change.
He says we might also be just too polite.
"Taking a bottle of wine into somebody else's restaurant when most restaurants have a great wine lists to start with in B.C. is something that is a bit foreign to us so it is just not picking up and traction."
Tostenson says corkage fees, ranging from $10 to $25 a bottle, are also not prohibitive.