Voucher Etiquette

[OneForNow]

This isn't a serious post, just looking to see if others agree with me!

So if you go out for a meal with a friend and you have a voucher for the restaurant, do you use the voucher for your share of the meal and expect the friend to pay their own? Or do you use the voucher and split the difference? Or say you have a £50 voucher and the meal is £80, expect the friend to pay the balance?

This situation came up recently and I did have a £50 voucher and I planned to use it and split the remainder, but friend insisted on paying the £30 and I accepted. Another friend said that she would have expected for a voucher to pay for only her share of a meal.

What's the etiquette?

An amount voucher I would view at face value cash-wise as your financial contribution

A discount percentage voucher off the whole bill, the remainder I would probably think should be split

Depends on the type of voucher and the type of friend I was with. I'd happily split it with some people but not with everyone.

I think I would do as you did.

It's just the same as cash really. Unless it was buy one get one free, in which case I'd split the cost. If I suggested the restaurant purely because I had the voucher, and I'm pretty sure my friend wouldn't have chosen to go there, then I'd use the voucher for a proportion of both meals.

I wouldn't expect it no, but it is nice if peole do it.

I bought one for a friend and she suggested we go there and use it for both of us, then on the night just used it for her portion. Didn't bother me but I did think it a bit awkward - having said that I often find splitting the bill awkward.

I won a set meal for 4 last year in a raffle and invited a couple to join me and my family member.

i went there thinking food was covered with the voucher so we could split drinks but the couple we invited insisted on paying for all the drinks we had after the bill came, which if I had known I may have not ordered wine! 😳
their view was that it was nice of me to choose them to use the voucher with so they wanted to cover the drinks as a thankyou. They wouldn’t take no for an answer so I eventually relented and covered the tip instead. It was very nice of them and I appreciated the gesture
but
personally I thought the point of a voucher was that we would all get a cheap meal out so it covers what it covers shared between everyone then we pay for whatever we have on top of the what the voucher covers so it didn’t make sense to me that they insisted on paying for everything on top of that because it meant they got free food but didn’t exactly have a cheap night out!

so anyway long story but my opinion is

voucher is shared unless stated that it won’t be before hand so everyone knows the score before choosing to come out then we split any remaining bill equally or if one is drinking/eating way more than the other/s we each put in what we had over and above what the voucher covers.
cheap or at least cheaper meal out for everyone involved.
thats how I view it anyway but I understand others view it differently.