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Splitting a Restaurant Bill: How Do you Do It?
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There are some scenarios that occur for us:
- Split bill evenly if going somewhere with light drinkers and a light bill
- contribute according to how much you consumed typically occurs when we go out with heavy drinks (we don't do alcohol) although we do get freeloaders
- pay for everyone - happens if go out with parents or with people spend weak foreign currencies...(South AFrican rand)
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What happened to the method in The Money Diet? (Everyone estimates how much then split the shortfall evenly)0
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Here are the results:
Poll Title: What do you do most commonly when eating out with a group of friends?
a. Split the bill evenly between everyone? 79.7% (1045 Votes)
b. Work out exactly who had what and divide in detail? 11.1% (146 Votes)
c. Take it in turns for one person to pay it all? 5.9% (78 Votes)
d. Another method 3% (40 Votes)
Total Votes: 1310Former MSE team member0
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