Money Moral Dilemma: Should we have paid for restaurant owner's birthday meal?

Stevie_Palimo

It's only money and surely friendship is more important !!!

old_fat_biker_bloke

Wow, £150 for one meal - That around what we spend a month on food for a family of 5!!!

19lottie82

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

It's only money and surely friendship is more important !!!

Maybe the birthday girl should have thought of that before profiteering from her "friends"?

warehouse

19lottie82 wrote: »

Maybe the birthday girl should have thought of that before profiteering from her "friends"?

Bingo.

An old friend of my Wife's visited many years back and brought with her a black bag full of her own children's old clothes as ours were younger.
Thank You very much said my wife, how nice.
That'll be £10 please said her friend.
That's now very much an ex-friend.

hazyjo

£150? I've not even spent that in some posh London restaurants. Sounds like an awful lot (was it mega expensive generally!?).

Did you pick the most expensive wine and food? Maybe she was going to treat you, but then thought you'd taken the pee so charged...

Unless there were bottles of wine on the table for you to help yourselves to, I would have at least expected to pay for the wine (presuming you chose it from a menu).

Jx

SailorSam

I wouldn't say anything, i'd just chalk it down to experience and remember it for next time.
It's a bit like going to weddings, you're getting an invite that you have to pay for. I've got a relative who was getting married in Cyprus, i didn't want to go and told her but she insisted as we're not a big family she wanted me there. I gave in to the pressure and it cost me just short of £1000. I felt, well i still feel if she wanted such an expensive wedding she should consider her guests more.

Jimmy_t'one

I would treat this in the same manner as the saying 'If you lend someone £20 and never see them again then it's money well spent'. Only fly in the ointment is that it's not your friend but your wifes!

tallgirld

I think that's really funny especially the service charge :-)!! What made you think it was free? Never assume anything or as they say no such thing as a free lunch.

I don't think you should say anything just don't go back there again if you are that annoyed about it.

louisajoyce

SERVICE CHARGE!!! Out of order!

kboss2010

If you were going out for a meal then you would expect to pay something but I would be really annoyed too. £150 is excessive and as it was her restaurant and birthday, I would have expected at least some money off. The service charge just adds insult to injury.

I'd chalk it up to experience and never bother with this "friend" again. I suspect you're probably not the only ones whofeel this way, I wonder how many friends this woman willhave left at her next birthday?