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Help settle a restaurant debate.

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IcedTeaForMe · 10/07/2019 13:25

I wasn't one of the people in this scenario but I was having this discussion with a friend who was.

There are five people out to dinner and they're splitting the billl. One person(my Friend) Karen has a gift card for the restaurant given to her by her employer. The gift card more than covers her share so she generously says that the rest of the gift card can be used to deduct from the bill for the other diners meaning that they'd pay around ten pounds less than they would have without Karen's gift card. One diner objects and says that the remaining bill should be split between all five(including Karen) and not the remaining four because she hasn't actually contributed any money to the bill, only a gift card that she didn't pay for.

It seems pretty clear cut to me who was in the wrong, but I'm curious to know what MN thinks?

OP posts:
RosesAndRaindrops · 13/07/2019 08:58

Are a couple of people not understanding what a gift card actually is or something?
Do they think it's a groupon money off voucher or something? Confused
This thread is bonkers.
Say I got 50 pounds in cash off my friend as a birthday present.
I'm being rude and unfair to pay with that as it's not my own money?
Doesn't even begin to make sense.
It is EXACTLY the same as said friend spending 50 pounds and giving it to me in the form of Nandos/whatever restaurant giftcard to spend there.
Not sure why people aren't getting that Confused, why would it be rude to pay with the giftcard but not if it was in cash form?

Adversecamber22 · 13/07/2019 09:04

At least we don’t have to worry that Ian will ever have to deal with a gift card of his own as he is so obnoxious no one will ever buy him a gift card.

TanselleTooTall · 13/07/2019 11:38

No matter how many scenarios are given to highlight the obvious point (many!), posters are STILL digging their heels in on this.
What's going on?! Grin

mummmy2017 · 13/07/2019 11:44

We have an Ian problem here...
He is a chancer hoping to guilt Karen Into paying more...
Using a gift card is fine....if you want to.
Being an ungrateful sod like Ian is not.

HeronLanyon · 13/07/2019 22:10

tanselle no matter how many times those of us who think differently explain our view (many!) posters are still digging away on this !
What’s going on ?! GrinGrin

whatsthecomingoverthehill · 13/07/2019 22:29

Nobody has posted for over 10 hours, and then you post to ask why people are still digging Hmm

HeronLanyon · 13/07/2019 22:40

I was replying to another poster with humour !!!

KOKOtiltomorrow · 13/07/2019 22:43

It’s shit like this that makes me want to kill my self

SunshineCake · 13/07/2019 22:56

Don't be so flippant, KOKO.

NigellaAwesome · 22/07/2019 15:33

We were in a restaurant today and I thought if this thread. I asked DH what he would have done. He said he would have said nothing about the gift card, gathered cash from everyone else, then gone up to pay, using the full amount of the gift card for part of the balance. Grin

HeronLanyon · 22/07/2019 16:03

I too was at restaurant for lunch. We had brief flurry over change/notes for tip and I thought briefly of this thread. All sorted itself out easily in the end.
nigella your dh may inadvertently have thrown a spanner in the works of intractable difference on this thread by employing the ‘going up’ manoeuvre. Interesting. As though hidden. Hmmmmm Grin

VivienneHolt · 22/07/2019 16:11

People are actually mental. You can see which posters are the ones who view their friends and colleagues as cash cows to be exploited looking at you Cloudyyy

HeronLanyon · 22/07/2019 16:16

Bit surely cloudyyy was doing the exact opposite of being greedy ! Oh no I feel the thread coming back to life but I can’t let cloudyyy be characterised that way !!

RosesAndRaindrops · 22/07/2019 16:38

How is this thread still going and how are people still not getting it Grin

SuzieSunshine · 22/07/2019 17:33

OP - I also think Karen was in the right but how did the bill get settled in the end? As I don't drink I have the problem that if a lot of us go out for a meal & everyone has a few drinks, (which I don't have a problem with as we are all really good friends) but one of our group only drinks large vodka & tonics which really bumps the bill up. Not a problem so far as they take into account that I've only had a couple of diet cokes but it does make me feel awkward.

notacooldad · 22/07/2019 20:55

As I don't drink I have the problem that if a lot of us go out for a meal & everyone has a few drinks, (which I don't have a problem with as we are all really good friends) but one of our group only drinks large vodka & tonics which really bumps the bill up
We pay for our own drinks as we go along and split food bill. The easiest thing is everyone to have something of a set menu!!

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