COUPLES! Do you split the bill at a restaraunt?

jackomdj

How is this less worthy than many of the questions in his section?

It depends, if they take American Express I pay, if not OH pays on his credit card. Both get paid off in full from the joint account each month.

Naf

We have a joint account that everything goes through.



The staff go to whoever is holding the bill and their card.

74jax

Husband pays if its more expensive, if it is say under £30 I'd probably pay.

DD265

It typically depends on who is the least skint at a given time.

For birthdays, the other person pays. Sometimes we might take it out of the joint account but often it's easier to not split, or if we were going for food plus cinema for example, one of us will buy food and the other the cinema tickets.

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We pay from the joint account unless one of us specifically wants to treat the other eg birthdays/celebrating new job etc
It seems more complicated to split it. Even before we had a joint account and lived together then we would roughly take in turns paying although we never counted.

Marvel1

JReacher1 wrote: »

I think it is bullying.

A new poster posts a relationship question on the relationship forum and is then made to feel like they have done something wrong. It is not a nice way to treat new posters.

Exactly and a post about fish and chips is ok!

PrettyKittyKat

We have a joint account which we both pay £x amount in to each month for house expenses including food costs. We will usually pay for all meals from the joint account, as this is fair. If we are short on the house account and we fancy eating out then one of us will tend to say lets go to such a place, it's my treat. Tends to be the person that wants to have the takeaway or eat out!

misswansea

My boyfriend is amused when I ( female, in possession of my own cash, bank cards and discount vouchers) ask for the bill but the staff place it in front of him. The way he rolls his eyes and makes a show if passing it to me is very endearing.
It only happens about 1/5 times but almost never the other way round( if he asks for the bill it is given to him)
I assume that in a busy restaurant they don't always remember who asked, and giving it to him is perceived as most likely to be right, or cause fewer arguments if wrong.

NaughtiusMaximus

JReacher1 wrote: »

I think it is bullying.

A new poster posts a relationship question on the relationship forum and is then made to feel like they have done something wrong. It is not a nice way to treat new posters.

Well said. This sort of behaviour from certain posters towards newbies is one thing I really dislike about this forum.

In answer to the original question, we tend to take it in turns.

prowla

When I was married, I would pay for everything, since I was the sole earner.


Nowadays, in these days of equality, I tend to prefer to alternate buying meals, but I would typically pick up the more expensive ones.