Guy contributes $60 for his share at a bachelor party dinner, friends call him out for not coughing up $180 despite ordering only one drink and an entrée: ‘I paid for way more than I ate’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Mar 19, 2025 9:00 PM EDT

Paying for a restaurant bill in a big group of people is one of the leading causes of anxiety attacks in all human beings. Not really, but such is true for me and possibly, for you, too. The etiquette of cashing out a table of 10+ people is nerve-wracking specifically because you never know who will be putting their card down to cover the whole check if you should've brought cash, and if you all are splitting the tab evenly.

In my opinion, splitting the tab evenly doesn't make sense if you had one drink and an appetizer and your five besties decided to go all-out with top-shelf liquid gold and expensive entrées. It just doesn't make sense! The guy in this next story puts $60 cash on the table at his friend's bachelor dinner, which is $30 more than what his meal cost. His friends were drinking expensive Scotch, but this guy showed up later than anticipated and only drank one drink, in addition to a cheap steak. Now, his friend group is judging him, hard. What do you think? Scroll to read.

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  • Though it's in poor taste to show up to your best pal's bachelor party late, it explains why his meal was so cheap. That extra $30 should cover a portion of the groom's food and drink, especially in a group of 12 people, as he mentioned. At the end of the day, if he has to go out of his way to cover his friends' expensive habits, he should consider not going out with them to dinner or seek a separate check at the beginning of each dinner outing.

  • "He suggests I pay for a couple of rounds at the nightclub we were at to make up for it. But I declined and said I paid for way more than I ate."
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  • "Bachelor party dinner, split the bill? I barely had anything!"

    Okay so a buddy of mine was getting married and had a bachelor party. We all met up at a pretty nice restaurant to begin the evening. I got stuck in traffic
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  • and I was there about 45 minutes late. They had all been sitting around drinking heavily and already had several rounds of expensive cocktails by the time I got there.
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  • They had already ordered the food but it hadn't arrived. Since I was late I just ordered a small steak and one beer, my total was maybe 30 bucks. The bill comes
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  • and it's astronomical. Then they all look around and say shall we split the check? They tally it up and it's like $180 a person. I didn't even bring that much cash
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  • with me so I couldn't have paid an even share if I wanted to. I mentioned that all I had was a steak and a beer and I put in 60 bucks. Everyone kind of side
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  • eyes me and I hear a couple people at the end of the table grumble about how cheap I am. I don't even really know those guys so I shrug it off.
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  • Later in the evening, one of the guys I do know pretty well pulls me aside and tells me that it's my buddy's bachelor party and I should have chipped in my full
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  • share. That a couple of the other guys who I don't know are upset with me. He suggests I pay for a couple of rounds at the nightclub we were at to make up for it. But I declined and said I paid for way more than I ate.
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  • Am I in the wrong here? I mean I know it's my buddy's bachelor party and all but $180 for a steak and a beer?
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  • EDIT: everybody is s assuming I'm broke and only have $60 to my name. This isn't the case, I make a decent living and could have covered the entire check no
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  • problem. But I was running to late and didn't have a chance to stop and get cash. I had $100 on me and I assumed I'd be fine for dinner. When I saw they had been
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  • drinking several rounds of expensive alc ol before I even got there it just didn't seem right to ask me to pay the full amount.
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  • I ordered a small steak and a beer because I thought the kitchen could make it quick and I'd be able to get my food with everyone else, which I did.
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  • andrei_snarkovsky The only rule of bachelor parties is that the bachelor doesn't pay. After the bachelor is covered, what the rest of the party ordered for themselves was on them.
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  • loricomments Screw that. You are not there to subsidize their drinking and you did kick in extra for the groom. They're the cheapskates, not you. Edit for my proofreading.
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  • Comfortable-Focus123 You always discuss prior. There are always people who will take advantage of these types of situation.
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  • Lucky_Log2212 Not wrong. They partied, they drank and you didn't. They shouldn't be so dumb to have done that. They said they were splitting the bill. YOU paid for your portion. What they did was on them, not you. They can be as mad as they want to be.
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