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Would you pay a 'cakeage' fee?

You have heard of ‘corkage’ but what about cakeage? Well If you want to bring a birthday cake along to an evening meal in a restaurant, you could be hit with cakeage fees of up to €50. That’s according to a report from yesterday’s Sunday Times, who found that a quarter of restaurants they surveyed were charging up to €5 per head for parties bringing cakes along with them. Ciara chats to listeners