I live in Slovakia and in certain parts this is a very common thing - if you’re about to have a birthday/wedding/any other gathering, you book a restaurant or some bigger place, you agree on what meal they should prepare for you and they prepare tables. The waitresses are there for you as usual.
But when it comes to alcohol and drinks in general, the restaurant doesn’t serve it, you bring your own and also serve it.
I always found it weird that we bring our own alcohol to a restaurant even though the restaurant offers alcohol aswell.
Is this common in your country also? Do you bring other things for a party/gathering in a restaurant?
Never saw that in Europe (but I never been to Slovakia), it’s quite common in Australia though, where restaurants without an alcohol license use the BYO acronym, meaning bring your own. Sometimes they might apply a “cork fee” though, so you bring your own alcohol but the restaurant provides the glasses, the waiter might serve it I think, and then there’s a cork fee in the bill.