Filed under: Dining Out
Scenario: There are 3 married couples (6 people) eating at a restaurant. We are celebrating one person’s birthday. When the bill comes out how should payment be divided?
A) Should we divide the bill by 5?
B) Should we divide the bill by 4 - therefore treating the birthday person and their significant other?
For the sake of argument, everybody ordered the same thing. Therefore, nobody spent more than another person.
It would depend on how the plans were arranged. If you were invited by the birthday person or their spouse then I would divide the bill evenly among everyone. If it was yourself or the other couple that invited the birthday couple out I would divide it by 2 and treat them.
should devide by 4 …
let the one having the special day have the treat. (not the gf though)
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If it were my friends we would probably divide the bill by two. Two of the three couples each pay half.
The spouse of one having the birthday might offer to pay the tip.
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I would either:
A) talk to the birhtday persons spouse about paying their bill, if that’s what they want to do tell the waitor that the couples are seperate and they will split the check for you
B) buy a gift card for that restaurant and give it as a gift to the birthday person from the other couples
C)split it 50/50 one couple paying for the birthday person, the other paying for their spouse
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You excuse yourself to go to the bathroom , then crawl out the bathroom window and jump down to the street !!
The others divide the bill by 3 !!
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It would depend on how the plans were arranged. If you were invited by the birthday person or their spouse then I would divide the bill evenly among everyone. If it was yourself or the other couple that invited the birthday couple out I would divide it by 2 and treat them.
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