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cakeage

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary

cakeage /ˈkākij, ˈkeɪkɪdʒ /
noun informal a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake that they have not supplied themselves:
they told me I was welcome to bring a birthday cake and there would be no cakeage
[as modifier] the standard cakeage rate in Melbourne was $3.50 a head.
– ORIGIN 1990s (originally Australian): from cake + -age, on the pattern of corkage.