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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, try to see if the server will do separate checks

Second, if not, take the bill first if you can, so the "let's just split evenly" doesn't take it first and announce what everyone "owes." Add up what you owe and add thirty percent (ten percent for tax, twenty percent for tip). Easy to figure out because you figure out ten percent and triple. If tax is less than ten percent, just let the extra be a larger tip.[/quote]

Yeah, but how do separate checks work when you order something like appetizers to share or a bottle of wine to share?

It just becomes a giant pain in the ass.

If you have a group of 10 and order say rib appetizers that 9 will eat and the 10th won't because the won't eat pork, how are you going to calculate it?  Oh and then only 5 out of 10 ate the second app while 7 out of 10 at the 3rd app.

Splitting checks works to a limited degree.

Honestly, just stay the hell home of you're going to have a conniption about going Dutch.  Or simply make life easier, go dutch, and ask people to figure it out afterwards.  Sitting at the table trying to to figure out exact consumption especially when there may be shares dishes involved that the entire table didn't eat equally makes it a giant mess.  [/quote]

I think we all agree that it's petty to itemize the portion you had of each shared appetizer.  It's fine to split the check evenly if your fair share would be like $10 more than what you actually consumed.  What people are objecting to is being asked to pay $50+ more than what they ate or when things are egregiously unequal.  If I have a group of 10 and the table orders multiple meat based appetizers as well as steaks for everyone else, but I just have a small salad since I'm a vegetarian and can't eat any of the apps or other food, then no, I shouldn't be asked to split evenly.  It's the same with the people getting a lot of booze.  That can add up quickly, and a person could easily be asked to foot the bill for quite a lot more than they consumed.

Honestly, you're the one who should stay the hell home if you're determined to make everyone else subsidize your excesses, and if you're not even willing to try to be fair or reasonable when paying the bill.  [/quote]

I think you have it backwards. You sound like no fun and high maintenance. [/quote]
This is the thread in a nutshell.  One person's "no fun and high maintenance" is another person's "too poor to subsidize other people's meals."  What may be nickel and diming to one person is another person's grocery budget for the week.   UMC people who nickel and dime are annoying and high maintenance.  But it's tone deaf for UMC people to basically mooch off of their much lower income friends or suggest that their lower income friends need to just stay home.  [/quote]

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