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Hey what's up everyone.

Andrew Limbaugh here in for Mariel Segara.

All right, maybe you've been here before.

You're dining out with your friends, you ordered appetizers, maybe you got a bottle for the

table, you all went in on dessert, and then the bill arrives. How do you handle it? Is there an awkward

race to the wallets? Does one person claim the credit card points? What if you

only got a salad while your buddy splurged on the surf and turf special.

How do you ensure everyone walks out of the restaurant feeling good about how the check was handled?

It's like the closure of the meal.

You know you have your appetizers, you have your entrees, you have your dessert, and then you have your argument. the

closure of the meal. You know, you have your appetizers, you have your entrees, you have your dessert, and then you have your argument. That's Kiki Aranita. She's a food writer for the strategist and she has a long career in the restaurant world.

As a server, as a bartender, I've also owned by own restaurant.

Kiki started working in restaurants long before those little portable credit card machines were around.

Basically we would like get a piece of paper out and try to do all the calculations

according to how many guests were in the party and try to split it that way, but that would

hold up the line.

The servers would do that?

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