S.W. and Rich Hermansen
Guest Writers
wine@lbknews.com
Wine by the glass has become an expected offering at the bar of an upscale restaurant 
serving lunch or dinner. Diners often choose to have a glass of the wine at the bar while waiting for guests to join them, or to kick back and decompress before dinner, or to get a feel of the place before deciding to dine there. The restaurant itself may use the bar as a convenient parking place for diners who are waiting to be seated at a table they have reserved or diners who do no have reservations and have to wait for a table to become available. Couples or single diners at times choose to dine at the bar, and restaurants serve lunch or dinner at the bar to small parties when no tables are available.
In general a bar would expect to recover the wholesale cost of a bottle of wine in the price of a single six ounce pour. A standard 750ml bottle holds about four six-ounce glasses of wine. The price of a single serving of wine also covers the costs of providing small samples of a wine, the costs of buying and cleaning glasses, staff salaries, location rents, spillage and breakage losses, licensing, and other overhead e