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Dining out with a big group? Learn the social etiquette of splitting the check

 

You all went in on dessert.

Is there an awkward race to the wallets?

*splurge on …에 돈을 펑펑 쓰다

What if you only got a salad while your buddy splurged on the surf-and-turf special?

Kiki started working in restaurants long before those little portable credit card machines were around.

*hold up 가로막다. 지체시키다, 늦추다

But that would hold up the line.

+) You’re holding up the line. 

That's how things were done just up until a few years ago.

*by and large 일반적으로, 대체로, 대개

By and large, things are easier now for the waitstaff, but technology still hasn't solved the social problem of who pays for what when.

*dial down 완화하다 누그러뜨리다

They discuss how to dial down the awkwardness.

*fair and square 공정하게

*sore spot 감정적으로 민감한 부분이나 취약한 지점. 상처받기 쉬운 주제나 상황

The check shouldn't be a sore spot at the end of the night.

Splitting the bill, like, at face value

*divvy ~을 나누다, ~에게 몫을주다, 분할, 몫, 분할 

*divvy up 분배하다. 누구누구에게 몫을 주다

There will be a sense of equality in how the funds are divvied up.

I'm taking you out for dinner, that means I'm going to pay the bill.

*factor into 변수로 넣다 고려하다

So it depends on the communication and what you say at the initiation of the date that factors a lot into who's going to pick up the bill or whether or not you're going to split the check. 

*financial footing 재정 기반

There's any concern of financial hardship or not being on the same financial footing.

*upfront 미리, 전면에, 앞에, 선불의, 솔직한

You need to make it very clear who's going to pay upfront.

*particular 자세한 사실[사항]

If you've decided to split the bill, talk about the particulars.

Should they sulk in a corner?

*take a person aside (은밀한 이야기를 하려고) 남을 옆으로 데리고가다 

Should they, like, take somebody aside and say, like, I don't think this is fair?

Let's reconfigure the bill a little bit to make it more fair.

It should be fine if you just speak up.

The problems only arise when somebody doesn't speak up.

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Splitting the bill is a fine art. Whether you're eating family-style at a Korean barbecue joint or having a three-course meal at a fancy restaurant, there should be "a sense of equality in how the check is divvied up" when the meal ends, says Kiki Aranita, a food editor at New York Magazine and the former co-chef and owner of Poi Dog, a Hawaiian restaurant in Philadelphia.

 

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Dining out with a big group? Learn the social etiquette of splitting the check

Dining out with a big group? Learn the social etiquette of splitting the check