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Guy Refuses To Split Restaurant Bill With Friends After They Order $200 Meals, Drama Ensues
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Guy Refuses To Split Restaurant Bill With Friends After They Order $200 Meals, Drama Ensues

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Bills are an unavoidable part of life but they can still become a source of frustration and confusion; especially if you’re trying to split them among family or friends.

Recently, Reddit user Additional-Wasabi357 went to a restaurant with a group they’ve been hanging out for a while. However, when it was time to pay, two people who are notorious for their financial manipulation, tried to make everyone at the table chip in equal parts even though they spent much, much more.

Sick and tired of their antics, Additional-Wasabi357 decided to stand up for themselves.

This person went out with some friends but refused to split the bill equally

Image credits: Kampus Production/Pexels (not the actual photo)

And it has caused quite a scene

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Image credits: Kampus Production/Pexels (not the actual photo)

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Image credits: Spencer Davis/Unsplash (not the actual photo)

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Splitting the check remains to be one of the most controversial subjects around group dining

Talking about money with friends can be tricky, but as this experience shows, you can’t avoid these conversations entirely.

Nick Leighton, who cohosts the etiquette-advice podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? thinks it makes sense to split the bill with buddies if everyone’s orders came out to similar prices.

“Ultimately, at the end of a lifetime of friendship, it’ll all even out,” he told Business Insider.

But if they don’t, Leighton believes it’s reasonable to ask for separate checks. If for whatever reason the restaurant can’t do that, he added, the burden falls on the person who organized the event to handle the bill with the venue and then get reimbursed by their guests.

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Leighton recommended an app called Plates to determine how much you owe based on what you ordered.

Further sticking to etiquette when paying for just one’s own meal, it’s crucial that guests repay their portion promptly. “It’s super rude to ever make someone chase you for money you rightly owe,” Leighton explained. “Those who don’t pay their debts promptly should be removed from any future guest lists.”

However, ultimately honest and clear communication is what allows people to navigate these situations, and it sounds like the two who gave the Redditor a hard time at the restaurant just weren’t interested in that.

If you ever find yourself in a similar spot, it’s usually best to distance yourself from all the commotion and and handle things personally. When the server approaches your table with the check, address them directly, suggests Diane Gottsman, an etiquette expert and owner of the Protocol School of Texas.

“Don’t look at your friends or your neighbor at the table,” she told CNBC. “Say, ‘I’m covering these two’ — that way you’re telling the server, not the table.”

“We should be discreet advocates for ourselves — for both our comfort levels and our budgets,” Gottsman highlighted.

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TribbleThinking
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very well played and even more so for leading the exodus! That's two greedy leeches and one enabler (heaven knows what disturbed people pleasing mental trauma he's got going on to actively recruit for the leeches like that of his volition).

Zoe Vokes
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s not because of any “financial hardships” that they are choosing to order the most expensive item on the menu. It’s because they are greedy and taking advantage of their friends. The first time out with them I would have said, “Are we splitting the bill? Because i can’t afford to pay for Greg and Susan’s expensive tastes. My bill comes to $__ with tip.” Greg and Susan aren’t friends.

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G A
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with a couple of those. They outed each other when 2 tried to not pay at all on a group lunch and the money handed in even with tips wouldn't cover the bill. They both shame faced, muttered they were confused and handed over their money. The shits.

Woodsie
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm in Australia and you don't need a restaurant to spilt bills. Just do what I and my friends do, use the calculator that we all have on our phones. Bills are itemised, just take the bill, take our your phone, calculate then say " my share is ..." and put a bit extra for a tip if service was good. Do it first then others can't argue, leeches get the bill last.

Zoe Vokes
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s what I would have done the first time we ate out together. “My bill came to $___. I can’t afford to pay for Greg and Susan’s expensive tastes.” If they were actually having financial hardships then they wouldn’t have ordered the most expensive item on the menu. Their bill would have been smaller if they had ordered less and money is supposedly tight for them.

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TribbleThinking
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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very well played and even more so for leading the exodus! That's two greedy leeches and one enabler (heaven knows what disturbed people pleasing mental trauma he's got going on to actively recruit for the leeches like that of his volition).

Zoe Vokes
Community Member
3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s not because of any “financial hardships” that they are choosing to order the most expensive item on the menu. It’s because they are greedy and taking advantage of their friends. The first time out with them I would have said, “Are we splitting the bill? Because i can’t afford to pay for Greg and Susan’s expensive tastes. My bill comes to $__ with tip.” Greg and Susan aren’t friends.

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G A
Community Member
3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with a couple of those. They outed each other when 2 tried to not pay at all on a group lunch and the money handed in even with tips wouldn't cover the bill. They both shame faced, muttered they were confused and handed over their money. The shits.

Woodsie
Community Member
3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm in Australia and you don't need a restaurant to spilt bills. Just do what I and my friends do, use the calculator that we all have on our phones. Bills are itemised, just take the bill, take our your phone, calculate then say " my share is ..." and put a bit extra for a tip if service was good. Do it first then others can't argue, leeches get the bill last.

Zoe Vokes
Community Member
3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s what I would have done the first time we ate out together. “My bill came to $___. I can’t afford to pay for Greg and Susan’s expensive tastes.” If they were actually having financial hardships then they wouldn’t have ordered the most expensive item on the menu. Their bill would have been smaller if they had ordered less and money is supposedly tight for them.

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