The bill when going out eating with friends
Discussion
fredt said:
hman said:
yeah - this is a pet hate "But I didnt have any drinks" or " But I didnt have dessert"
Just divide the bill and dont be a w
ker all your life.
Let them add up their bill, then you divide up the balance. Simples.Just divide the bill and dont be a w
ker all your life.Another top tip is to not hang out with people you consider to be w
kers..kers...Muzzer79 said:
Hughesie said:
Credit card Roulette.
All the cards in a napkin and ask the waiter/waitress to pick a card blind - tends to work if its a smallish group and less than a set limit - I/e £500.00
Seriously?All the cards in a napkin and ask the waiter/waitress to pick a card blind - tends to work if its a smallish group and less than a set limit - I/e £500.00
f
k that.....
but you might gets yours free as a result. Must admit, it wouldn't make me feel good watching someone pay for my meal in this way.
RWD cossie wil said:
fredt said:
hman said:
yeah - this is a pet hate "But I didnt have any drinks" or " But I didnt have dessert"
Just divide the bill and dont be a wker all your life.
Let them add up their bill, then you divide up the balance. Simples.Just divide the bill and dont be a w
ker all your life.Another top tip is to not hang out with people you consider to be w
kers..kers...There you are thinking that your mates are cool - and then they go and do this sort of crap which immediately classifies them as w
kERS in my mind.I have indeed offended more than one friend by saying to them - "dont be a tight fisted w
ker just pay the bill".I dont have time for people in my life that make EVERYONE else's lives uncomfortable by being tight fisted at the end of a nice meal, they can eat at another table for all I care. The tight arse w
kers table - I decree that a suitably signed table should be present at every restaurant as both a deterrent and a punishment for anybody engaging in this kind of measly practice.There is no way I will allow them to sit there totalling up what they ate and then present us with their very own bill - if one does it so will the next person as they will feel that they mpaid differently to the next and the next and the next MUTINY will follow, a scuffle, someone will throw a trifle, or the remnants of a Thal and the police will get called.
NO thanks lets just all pay the bill divided by the number of people present at the table and remember that next time if you consider the bill to be important then perhaps you are living beyond your means and you should stay at home saving up for a nice meal out. f
k it - if they said at the beginning when the arrangements are made, I dont have much money I would gladly pay for their meal in return for a meal when they are better off.The meal and the company is the important part, not the f
kING bill.Etiquette - what the f
k happened to it?
NinjaPower said:
Further to my earlier response of "we just split it", I have just remembered the sheer tightness of one of our mates...
He has always been exceptionally tight, doing things like turning up to a house party carrying the absolute bare minimum of drinks that he would require to drink, and then incredibly, leaving at the very end of the party taking with him a couple of unopened alcohol bottles, despite them not being his!
When we ate out, we began noticing that he would always add his cash to the plate last and then hand it in to the waiter for payment.
Eventually we discovered what was happening:
We were all rounding up when paying so as to leave a little tip each, for example if our food/drink split came to £18.50 each or suchlike, we were all just dropping a £20 into the pot. He was getting the pot last, and adding it up our money, and then just adding a few quid on top of our money to make the bill up to the bare minimum without tip! He was using our tips to pay his portion of the bill!
Quite incredible.
We called him out on it big style in one restaurant and he hasn't done it again... Normally I wouldn't put up with the kind of person who does that sort of thing, but we have all known him a long time and he has had his share of bad luck in the past. Plus, it just gives us yet another thing to take the piss out of him about
Reminds me of psycho john, a flatmate of mine at a lowpoint in my life years ago.He has always been exceptionally tight, doing things like turning up to a house party carrying the absolute bare minimum of drinks that he would require to drink, and then incredibly, leaving at the very end of the party taking with him a couple of unopened alcohol bottles, despite them not being his!
When we ate out, we began noticing that he would always add his cash to the plate last and then hand it in to the waiter for payment.
Eventually we discovered what was happening:
We were all rounding up when paying so as to leave a little tip each, for example if our food/drink split came to £18.50 each or suchlike, we were all just dropping a £20 into the pot. He was getting the pot last, and adding it up our money, and then just adding a few quid on top of our money to make the bill up to the bare minimum without tip! He was using our tips to pay his portion of the bill!
Quite incredible.
We called him out on it big style in one restaurant and he hasn't done it again... Normally I wouldn't put up with the kind of person who does that sort of thing, but we have all known him a long time and he has had his share of bad luck in the past. Plus, it just gives us yet another thing to take the piss out of him about
on the way to a gig, both had a pizza and a beer at a very nice place, bill's £17. I drop a tenner on the plate. He places a fiver, pats his pockets, and asks me if I've got any change. For the sake of it I drop another fiver, which he looks at, mentions "he might have some change actually" and goes to pick it up!
He'd order 2x18" pizzas from some minging dump at least a couple of times a week, sit and stuff 1.5 into his fat face and have the leftover half for breakfast, now he never ever tipped but on the last night we were there as our tenancy was up he told the delivery guy he had no more money but would would tip him properly "next time", then retold this story to me in a fit of hysterics at his cleverness.
sorry to go O/T. He was proper odd.
Asterix said:
You've just reminded me - for the sake of numbers; 10 people, bill comes to $190, everyone chucks in $20 cash except the last person who pockets the cash and puts the specific total on their credit card.
Done this many times as it's a useful way to get cash without going to the ATM.However, I always either leave the relevent amount of cash as a tip or I add it to the card as well... must admit though I always make sure the other people at the table know that's what I'm doing.... precisely because I don't want them to think I'm doing what you mention above.
NinjaPower said:
doing things like turning up to a house party carrying the absolute bare minimum of drinks that he would require to drink, and then incredibly, leaving at the very end of the party taking with him a couple of unopened alcohol bottles, despite them not being his!
This one got me. I knew a guy exactly like this. He'd turn up at parties with 4 cans a Carling or something equally as st and then proceed to drink about three times that of other people's good stuff - Moretti, Stella, etc etc. Invariably his 4 cans would be left at the end! Anyway, splitting is the way to go with the bill - no doubt. I hate the "...but I just had a pizza" brigade.
A bit different but...
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Nezquick said:
A bit different but...
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
As a dad, I'd never expect someone else to be chipping in for my kids meal!My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
GP335i said:
Nezquick said:
A bit different but...
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
As a dad, I'd never expect someone else to be chipping in for my kids meal!My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Very easy and no one paid over or under the odds.
Nezquick said:
A bit different but...
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Split equally as usual between everyone (including kids) and the parents pay for their respective kids splits, or ask for separate checks at the start of the meal.My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Alternatively, find better friends who don't expect you to to subsidize their kids sunday lunch
GCH said:
Nezquick said:
A bit different but...
My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Split equally as usual between everyone (including kids) and the parents pay for their respective kids splits, or ask for separate checks at the start of the meal.My wife and I have no kids. All of our friends do have kids. We will sometimes go out for Sunday lunch as a big group and the kids will come as well. They'll invariably be ordered kiddies meals (sausage and chips or something similar) which won't get eaten 9 times out of 10.
At the end of the meal, the bill comes and we're asked to split it between the adults (even though there will be say 6 kids as well).
Now i'm all for splitting bills evenly in most cases but what's the etiquette in this case? Do the adults with kids chip in more or do the adults just split the whole lot between them despite the fact we have no kids?
Alternatively, find better friends who don't expect you to to subsidize their kids sunday lunch
I'm in a similar position - no kids but my friends all have.
All the parents split the bill so that they cover the kids' meals. We pay for our contribution. Works out fine.
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