Food & Drink

Dinner Time

Food & Drink

Posted by: Anonymous

31st May 2007 03:05pm

Many of us enjoy going out for dinner, or to a friends house for a bbq, but what happens when it comes time to eat and drink?  For example, in the case of a bbq, should you only eat what you brought or the equivalent (i.e  don't eat the steak if you only brought sausages) or because its a group situation should you feel free to help yourself to whatever is on offer?

 

Also if you are eating out with a group, should you split the bill evenly amongst the group, regardless of whether you've ordered the most or least expensive thing on the menu, or should everyone pay for what they ordered?


Anonymous
  • 14th Dec 2007 10:34am

In the case of going to a BBQ where you have to bring your own meat, if you only bought sausages then you should really only eat sausages, why eat someone elses steak, obviously you would have prefered steak. I suggest when you buy things for a BBQ like this you take what you want to eat so you want have to sit there thinking about if you can have someone elses. In another sense if you did only bring sausages and so long for the steak then ask, there will simply only be two answers yes or no, and most of the time people tend to say yes, if there your friends.
as for eating out normally, you should pay for what you ate, if your ordered say a bottle of wine between the group then you split the cost of that. but otherwise you could seriously be overpaying for someone else's meal. Which is okay i guess if your the kind of person that has the money to just throw places but i mean, hardly anyone would do the same for you.

so to save all arguments about who owes what and the argument that you didnt eat that much i suggest pay for your own meals. "tip: always take smaller notes and change, they come in handy for this kind of thing"


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