Bill splitting 101
How to split a restaurant bill with friends.
If everyone ordered something different, splitting the total equally is easy — but it is not always fair. A better method is to assign individual items to the people who ordered them and divide shared dishes only among the people who actually had them.
See it in recEAT
From one messy bill to everyone’s actual share.
Add the receipt items, tap who had each dish, and recEAT turns it into a clean per-person breakdown you can share.
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1. Start with the items, not the grand total
List each dish or drink and its price. This matters when one person had a ₱600 main while someone else only ordered a ₱180 drink.
2. Assign individual orders
If one person was the only one who had an item, that item goes to them. You do not need to divide it across the table just because it appears on one receipt.
3. Divide shared dishes only among the people who shared them
For pizza, appetizers, desserts, or other shared food, divide the item price by the number of people who actually had it.
A ₱480 appetizer was shared by Alex, Bea, and Chris. Each person’s share of that dish is ₱160. Dani, who did not have any, owes ₱0 for that item.
4. Handle shared charges consistently
Restaurants may add charges such as service charge. Your group can choose to divide a shared charge equally for simplicity or allocate it proportionally based on each person’s food and drink total. The important part is to use one method consistently and make it visible in the breakdown.
5. Give everyone one final breakdown
Once the items and shared charges are assigned, total each person’s share and send the breakdown. That prevents the usual second round of “Wait, how did you get my amount?”
That is the idea behind : everyone pays for what they actually ate.
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