couvert

noun

1. cover charge

   “Earl Carroll's Theater-Restaurant, 6230 Sunset Blvd. Dinner from 7:30 to 11 p.m., no couvert; without dinner, admission charge.”

   “[…] the habit of hotel restaurants charging a couvert to residents, and of clubs charging table money to their own members.”

   “The couvert is a “cover charge” that is a prima facie charge for bread, which is brought to the table automatically in most places.”