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What's cover?

This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the door?
Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs,
neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).
  

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} This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the } door? } } Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs, } neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).

  • } This is from an article on Las Vegas.
  • What's a cover at the } door?
  • } } Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs, } neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).
  • An admission charge, typically where entertainment is offered, so people don't just nurse a cheap drink and keep a table from being used by paying customers.
  • Better to say what dictionary you didn't find it in first.
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} This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the } door?
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} Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs, } neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).
An admission charge, typically where entertainment is offered, so people don't just nurse a cheap drink and keep a table from being used by paying customers. Better to say what dictionary you didn't find it in first.
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[nq:1]This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the door? Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs, neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).[/nq]
From the COD, tenth edition:
cover charge
n. a fee paid for admission to a restaurant, bar, or club.
Charles Riggs
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[nq:1]This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the door? Drinks are not cheap ($7-$10) in the nice clubs, neither is the cover at the door ($10-$20).[/nq]
(COD10)
cover charge
· n. a fee paid for admission to a restaurant, bar, or club.
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[nq:1]} This is from an article on Las Vegas. What's a cover at the } door? } } Drinks are ... keep a table from being used by paying customers. Better to say what dictionary you didn't find it in first.[/nq]
Never heard of it. Is this charge spelled out on a restaurant menu? Or you give it just like a tip with a unfixed amount. But instead of giving it after the meal, you give it before even
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[nq:1]Never heard of it. Is this charge spelled out on a restaurant menu?[/nq]
Yes, sometimes, though it more commonly pertains
to nightclubs than restaurants. It is most often collected at the door on entry.
Sometimes there is a minimum charge as well, as in "two-drink minimum" which you have to pay for
whether you order them or not.

Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
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[nq:2]Never heard of it. Is this charge spelled out on a restaurant menu?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, sometimes, though it more commonly pertains to nightclubs than restaurants. It is most often collected at the door on entry.[/nq]
Many restaurants in France have a cover charge, for in the better ones you have two sorts of bottled water on the table (still and fizzy) and they bring bread rolls and but

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