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kingsrings:
I clip restaurant coupons like crazy because I am always looking to save money as I'm completely broke at this time. Some of these coupons are the 'buy one' get one free' type. My etiquette question is, is it okay to use this coupon when I am dining out with a group of people? The group is anywhere from 10-20 people on a regular basis. Usually when it's just two of us I will share the coupon with my dining mate and then we just pay half and half for the one entree, but it is impossible to do the sharing thing when it's a large group of people. This is coming up this weekend, and I have a lot of coupons for this one dining place, so I want to use them because it's a good deal and I want to save money.

Chocolate Cake:
If you feel that it would be rude to arbitrarily select someone in the group with whom to share your good fortune leaving the rest to pay full price for their meals, then just keep the coupon to yourself, order two entrees, eat one there and have one boxed "to go" for your dinner the next night.

Chonsil:
You say you have coupons - plural, right? I suppose my thought is you could share them amongst the group, and then reduce the cost of the overall bill which is then split amongst everyone. Of course, this only works if you are splitting the bill and not getting separate cheques. And it could be the case that you want to keep your coupons for your own use on other occasions.

kingsrings:

--- Quote from: Chocolate Cake on December 13, 2006, 11:47:38 AM ---If you feel that it would be rude to arbitrarily select someone in the group with whom to share your good fortune leaving the rest to pay full price for their meals, then just keep the coupon to yourself, order two entrees, eat one there and have one boxed "to go" for your dinner the next night.

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I did try that once, picking one person out of the group and offering to share the coupon with her. But she said no, just go ahead and use it for myself, and the rest of the group agreed. I just don't know if they were saying that to get out of a situation they thought was rude or not.

kingsrings:

--- Quote from: Chonsil on December 13, 2006, 11:55:58 AM ---You say you have coupons - plural, right? I suppose my thought is you could share them amongst the group, and then reduce the cost of the overall bill which is then split amongst everyone. Of course, this only works if you are splitting the bill and not getting separate cheques. And it could be the case that you want to keep your coupons for your own use on other occasions.


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We all get one bill, but pay our separate share of it, or sometimes they do give individual bills. I think I do have more than one coupon, but not enough that everyone would get to use them, and the restaurant limits it to only two per table anyway.

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