How to split the restaurant bill?

[Karwomannghia]

I’ve booked a restaurant to visit with a friend and had to pay £10 deposit.
When we go and we get the bill, how do we split it? Obviously just going halves.

Spilt it in half on the day then add £5 onto hers for half the deposit then.

Friend gives/pings you a fiver now and then you ask the waiter to halve the bill when it comes?

Bill arrives = £100 ( shows £110 - deposit)

Split £110 two ways

£55 each to pay.

But as you have already paid ten pounds yours is £45

£100

Hope this helps

Did she not offer to transfer you the £5. If not, as @HeartZone said.

For the sake of a fiver I’d prob just forget it and split the bill on the day ... I appreciate that depends on your circumstances though.

@Sirzy

Spilt it in half on the day then add £5 onto hers for half the deposit then.

So she pays half to the restaurant and £5 to me? Or an extra £5 to restaurant?

@BigSandyBalls2015

For the sake of a fiver I’d prob just forget it and split the bill on the day ... I appreciate that depends on your circumstances though.

Me too. Friend could book and pay the deposit next time instead maybe.

Of course she’d offer the £5 now but last time we didn’t even think of it till we’d got the bill after a few drinks and couldn’t think of how to do it quickly!

Have you actually paid the deposit or have they just pre authorised your card? It’s usually the latter and they only take the tenner if you don’t show up.

I’m not short of money or being miserly, just like a little puzzle!

So has this already happened?

Take the bill total, minus the £5. Split the remainder in half. Your pay the half to ur friend pays the half plus the fiver. As a working example:

Total bill = £55

• £5 (your friends share of deposit) = £50

£50/2=£25

You pay 25, your friend pays £30.

I'd split the bill and not worry about £10. It does depend on circumstances though.

@HeartZone

Bill arrives = £100 ( shows £110 - deposit)

Split £110 two ways

£55 each to pay.

But as you have already paid ten pounds yours is £45

£100

Hope this helps

Yes that makes sense, so add £10, split, take off £10 for me! I think that’s what we said last time but then I was worried she’d paid more because I was thinking if we’d split it, it would have been £5 each so she should only being paying £5 more 🤪

Same as @BigSandyBalls2015 I’d just halve whatever the restaurant bill was and both pay the same on the day.

The deposit will come off your bill.

So say the total meal costs £50
Then the deposit of £10 is taken off, leaving £40 to pay. That’s £20 each.
But your friend owes you £5 for their half of the deposit.
So add £5 to their half, and take off £5 from yours.
You pay £15, friend pays £25 to pay the total bill less the deposit.

^Sorry my phone auto "corrected" the above to not make sense.

It should say you pay half after the £5 deducted, your friend pays half plus £5.

Another one saying just split the bill and forget the extra fiver you've paid towards the deposit.

It’s a deposit; the maths shows it as an additional charge which is wrong. If the bill is £100, it will show £90 payable not £110.
Suggest not going out if this is such a massive concern.

We’ve been before and I can remember getting confused trying to quickly split it, she kept trying to give me an extra tenner whereas I was thinking it should only be half.

Neither of us is tight or lacking money I just like being able to calculate stuff quickly and it got me! Especially after a few drinks.

Going again.

They do actually take the money before yes.

I think if you are going to split the deposit it's just easier and less stressful for you if she pings you a fiver now, and then you can relax and split the bill when you go.

Some people are weird.

Why on earth should OP pay £10 extra because she went to the bother of booking the meal ? All she's asking is how to split the bill correctly with the deposit. I'd be mortified if I knew my friend was subsidising me because too polite or embarrassed to mention deposit and we're both on decent incomes.

Or the other thing you could do is halve the bill and your friend leaves the tip.