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Who is going out to big dinners today? Nonetheless, when we did it, we always just split evenly and enjoyed each other’s company.
I came here for this comment. Wtf are you doing going out with 10 people right now, OP?
Unless it’s an egregious amount higher, I think when going out to dinner with a big group you accept that you’re splitting the bill evenly and it is what it is. We aren’t in college, we aren’t going to line item a bill and split it up based on who ate what meal and who had a beer vs. a cocktail.
Amen. I was that underpaid person once, I’m not going to force my lifestyle on them now just because I make more now.
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The answer to this is super easy.
It depends..
We split the bill or take turns. It doesn’t matter who pays more than they ate for an outing because we actually like each other and hang out enough to balance it out.
Just food = even split
Alcohol = split by person
I don't drink that much, so no, I'm not sharing costs to split everyone else's 3-4 drinks.
As someone that used to serve during college, splitting the bills for each person is the more common that many here believe (when it comes to big groups). Very rarely would a single person pick up the full tab - often would split apps evenly but still itemize the drinks and food. Thankfully we had that fancy micros that allowed it to be fairly easy. I just always expected to split bills by person with every table so that's how I thought of it, by person not by table.
Is OP even still here 🤣
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Course I’m here - it’s an important conversation
Usually one person puts it on their card and we take pics of the bill to pay the person back. This way we all get to take turns getting cc points, having to pay up front and we can enjoy the time together/worry about billing later!
If it’s like $40 pp brunch, we split everything. Otherwise someone normally gets the bill and we all sit and figure it out. Sometimes we’ll take a photo and do it that way. When people forget, we Venmo request each other. It’s not an issue with my friend group.
I don’t think this has been brought up yet but my experience with people who want to split is that they are cheap and they really are counting on someone else to subsidize their meal. Where I live restaurants don’t often do separate checks unless you go to a chain restaurant and often have a credit card limit per table. I have a small group of friends who prefers to split by line item. The people who are most insistent on splitting by line item are most likely to need a reminder to pay (if someone cover the whole check and we’re all paying them back) and most likely to under tip, to the point where I feel like I have to overtip to make up for it.
With good friends, we take turns paying for the entire meal
I'm antisocial so this isn't a problem!
If I’m out with friends from home, I have no problem paying more than my fair share. With friends from work who have money and often drink more than I do, I expect to get separate checks as it’s simply not fair.
Perhaps this view changes as one gets older but even growing up we’re all more than capable of accurately splitting the bill.
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It’s pretty easy to just ask the waiter to split up the checks. To make it easier on them just tell them the different splits when you first sit down that way they will even enter your food that way up front. If I get soup and salad and you get lobster and steak - don’t expect me to pay for a portion of your lobster and steak. It’s just rude.
Separate checks is the way to go depending on the group, with my friends we take turns covering the bill sometimes but thats a small group of guys and it's generally similar dollar amounts on a per person basis.
This is interesting bc when I lived in NYC they never offer to split the check, so I think what’s easiest is just everyone splitting it evenly. I live in florida now and the servers always ask you at the beginning of ordering how the check is going to be split. The only time I’d consider line by line is if you have one person who ordered way less or one person who orders way more and it’s a repeat offender on the way more person (we had a friend who would always order way more to drink than everyone else). If it’s a small group I also do - we’ve got the check this time, y’all can pick it up next time.
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Are you splitting evenly because sharing bottles and or appetizers? When this happens we always split by couples
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Ask for a separate check upfront, & if you end up sharing an app that someone else ordered, venmo for your portion of that. I’m pretty conscious of the price of food I order when going out & don’t like feeling like I’m paying for someone else’s food/drink. Some people intentionally order expensive meals with apps & drinks when they think it won’t be as expensive bc the bill will be split evenly. If it’s a rare occasion I wouldn’t make it a big deal, but if it’s every few weeks or so I think it’s worth figuring out
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Wife does not drink. So when we go out say 8 people we split the food across 8 and the drinks across 7
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If you don’t like splitting then bring cash and put in your amount to take off the bill prior to the split happening. Then throw in a cash tip