Shared dishes
How to Split Shared Dishes Fairly.
Shared food is where a simple equal split often stops making sense. One appetizer might be shared by four people, another by two, and someone else may not have touched either one.
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1. Keep every shared dish as its own line
Do not combine all shared food into one bucket unless exactly the same people shared every dish. Keeping the lines separate preserves who actually participated in each order.
2. Mark the people who had that dish
For each shared item, identify the actual sharers. Someone who skipped the appetizer should not pay for it just because they were at the table.
3. Divide the item price by the number of sharers
When the group shared the dish roughly equally, divide the item price equally among the people marked for that item.
A ₱720 pizza shared by Aki, CJ, Kiko, and Noy contributes ₱180 to each person.
4. Repeat for each shared item
The set of sharers can change from one dish to another. That is why item-level assignment is more accurate than one equal split of the whole bill.
5. Combine shared and individual items
Each person’s food subtotal is their solo items plus their shares of every shared dish they joined.
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