On 9/25/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 04:23 PM 5/15/2007 ] > >It's sometimes awkward when the bill arrives at a large gathering of > >people at a restaurant - figuring out who pays what, &c. Here's an > >interesting study of precisely this problem. I'd be fascinated to > >hear comments from Madhu (and others!) on this. > > > >Udhay > > > >http://www.chicagocdr.org/cdrpubs/pdf_index/cdr_523.pdf > > More on this: > > http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/a-measure-of-guidance-dividing-the-bill/
> With friends who I dine out with regularly, we just split things evenly, as > over time it all averages out. As a non-drinker who regularly dines with drinkers I have frequently had to pay an order of magnitude more than what I ate. I'd be perfectly happy to split the food bill evenly -- with Indian food that's an accurate model of consumption -- but I object to subsidising other people's booze. Splitting the food bill and the booze bill seperately works well but doesn't seem to be the convention around here. The problem with that model is that vegetarians may object to paying for non-veg food and next thing you know you need advanced math to divvy up. The other problem I've noticed is that the person doing the division usually ends up in the awkward situation of having collected too little or too much money. What do you then? -- b
