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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Canadian checking in.

Biggest oddity to me is that the default for restaurants is one bill, and waiters get annoyed if you ask them to split it by person.

Like why would I want to either:

  • do math correctly splitting the bill while trying to leave; or
  • be worried I ordered something more expensive than the average and unfairly make others cover it?

It's complete insanity to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This hugely depends. Most places will happily split it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think this largely depends on the system they're using for billing. In Canada, most restaurant systems bill by seat anyway, so it's easy to print multiple receipts or a combined one. A lot of systems in the US bill by table, so the waiter is the one who has to do all the math.