The bill when going out eating with friends
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rehab71 said:
papa3 said:
carreauchompeur said:
100% split it. I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic. Not the kind of pedantic a
holes I'd want to dine with!
This. I loathe seeing people using calculators and menus to work out what they must contribute. Non drinker is a different consideration though.holes I'd want to dine with!king bean counters, all to save a couple of quid!My friends/work colleagues have always just split it equally. I really can't be arsed with people who fuss about who had what.
If they are people you eat out with fairly regularly then the chances are one of you will be a cheap eater one week and an expensive one the next, it all evens out in the end.
If it's only a couple of drinks each with the meal then we don't even worry about taking into account the non-drinker.
On the occasion it's a more boozy session and there is a non drinker, we just tell them to pay £20 or £30 less or whatever everyone else each spent on the alcohol part of the bill, but we just do it to the nearest £10 or whatever.
Fortunately my close friends are all decent folk and we tend to split and if anyone is has had expensive food or wine they'll check a few quid extra in. Sometimes someone might round down rather then muck about splitting notes and generally we'll be over and that'll go towards the tip. It requires the least amount of thinking and over time evens out
carreauchompeur said:
100% split it. I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic. Not the kind of pedantic aholes I'd want to dine with!
Totally agree, I am disappointed in myself if I realise that I actually know some of these creatures.holes I'd want to dine with!carreauchompeur said:
100% split it. I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic. Not the kind of pedantic aholes I'd want to dine with!
Totally agree, I am disappointed in myself if I realise that I actually know some of these creatures.holes I'd want to dine with!carreauchompeur said:
100% split it. I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic. Not the kind of pedantic aholes I'd want to dine with!
Totally agree, I am disappointed in myself if I realise that I actually know some of these creatures.holes I'd want to dine with!davepoth said:
I always aim to split. I rarely end up being over the average but as far as I'm concerned the act of splitting the bill is part of the social aspect of going to dinner with friends.
Absolutely. Being generous, after a while, is the cheapest way to find out how petty how some 'friends' are.carreauchompeur said:
I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic.
To be fair, some women are constantly on a diet, so they might only have a side salad or something. Of course, they will binge on KitKats and Flakes when they get home out of sight of their friends, but that's beside the point...
I haven't been able to drink for 8 years now... but I always just split the bill... but it does surprise me when others at the table mention that because I didn't drink, I should pay less. The way I see it is that if we all had a good time, irregardless of who ate what etc. then we all contribute the same amount.
With the work group we always split evenly but we use to have a really stingy guy who would always complain about the prices, food quality and so on. Initially to keep him happy we ended up doing the who had what and everyone paid for what they got but it quickly got annoying and we told him we would be splitting equally.
On one particular night we all ended up drinking and getting a reasonable amount of food whereas he was being stingy and ordering less. It came down to the bill and he insisted on paying for what he ate because he didn't want to get "ripped off". Long story short, he ended up paying marginally more for his food rather than the split price of the other four of us
On one particular night we all ended up drinking and getting a reasonable amount of food whereas he was being stingy and ordering less. It came down to the bill and he insisted on paying for what he ate because he didn't want to get "ripped off". Long story short, he ended up paying marginally more for his food rather than the split price of the other four of us
I haven't been able to drink for 8 years now... but I always just split the bill... but it does surprise me when others at the table mention that because I didn't drink, I should pay less. The way I see it is that if we all had a good time, irregardless of who ate what etc. then we all contribute the same amount.
Mobile Chicane said:
rehab71 said:
papa3 said:
carreauchompeur said:
100% split it. I've witnessed tables of women working their individual contributions out to the level of pence and think it's pathetic. Not the kind of pedantic aholes I'd want to dine with!
This. I loathe seeing people using calculators and menus to work out what they must contribute. Non drinker is a different consideration though.holes I'd want to dine with!king bean counters, all to save a couple of quid!Unsurprisingly, she's single.
PS Is she hot?
toohuge said:
I haven't been able to drink for 8 years now... but I always just split the bill... but it does surprise me when others at the table mention that because I didn't drink, I should pay less. The way I see it is that if we all had a good time, irregardless of who ate what etc. then we all contribute the same amount.
Not to mention that in many places soft drinks are not far off alcohol prices...It depends on who we're with mostly. Good friends, split. If we're out and it's group of people who don't know each other very well, then we take a consensus to see whether to split or sort out who had who. It's more of a pain.
I remember once, having a fit cos 1 pair insisted on only paying for what they had - they were pensioners and didn't drink, whereas lots of beer had been consumed. Eventually I came round to the idea that it was better for them, so we dealt with it - but then when they broke it down, we found that the restaurant had fked up someone else's bill charging them too little and tacked it onto ours! We got the bill corrected and it was ~£50 less. I went ballistic at the manager and told him in no uncertain terms that people would be warned off the place. (We work in the hospitality industry locally). It might not have made any impact ofc, but it made me feel better!
That is an aberration, of course, but still.
I remember once, having a fit cos 1 pair insisted on only paying for what they had - they were pensioners and didn't drink, whereas lots of beer had been consumed. Eventually I came round to the idea that it was better for them, so we dealt with it - but then when they broke it down, we found that the restaurant had f
ked up someone else's bill charging them too little and tacked it onto ours! We got the bill corrected and it was ~£50 less. I went ballistic at the manager and told him in no uncertain terms that people would be warned off the place. (We work in the hospitality industry locally). It might not have made any impact ofc, but it made me feel better!That is an aberration, of course, but still.
An even split is they way to go, it all comes out in the wash anyway, however if there is drink involved and some aren't drinking or others tend to take the piss then take the drink element out, split the food bill and the drinkers can then work out that side.
The wife's sister in law is a fking nightmare when when it comes to going out for a meal with, or anything really when it comes to money, she will work out exactly what she has had to eat and drink and will pay precisely that amount and she never, ever tips, she is tighter than a ducks arse.
For my wife's 40th a group of them went out for a meal at the restaurant that my daughters boyfriend is the head chef for, he did everything at cost on a Saturday evening, organised free coffee and desserts and the drinks were all bought and paid for at the bar, as and when people wanted them, the sister in law insisted that the food bill was worked out individually, she took the left overs home in a doggy bag and refused to leave any kind of tip, suffice to say she didn't make many friends that night and my daughter was livid that she could be so rude when everything was done at cost with freebies thrown in by her boyfriend.
The wife's sister in law is a f
king nightmare when when it comes to going out for a meal with, or anything really when it comes to money, she will work out exactly what she has had to eat and drink and will pay precisely that amount and she never, ever tips, she is tighter than a ducks arse.For my wife's 40th a group of them went out for a meal at the restaurant that my daughters boyfriend is the head chef for, he did everything at cost on a Saturday evening, organised free coffee and desserts and the drinks were all bought and paid for at the bar, as and when people wanted them, the sister in law insisted that the food bill was worked out individually, she took the left overs home in a doggy bag and refused to leave any kind of tip, suffice to say she didn't make many friends that night and my daughter was livid that she could be so rude when everything was done at cost with freebies thrown in by her boyfriend.
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