How does it work if I want to have a birthday dinner at a restaurant?
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Depending what restaurant, I’ll let them know price ranges or more in advance to save money
@Elisa do I tell people in advance how do i address it?
Call the place ahead! Days or weeks in advance. Let them know about the # of people, & ask if they take reservations.
Yeah depending on the restaurant I would tell them in advance. If it’s like a nice fancy restaurant like a steak house I’d tell them a couple months bc you could be spending a couple hundred in there or if it’s just a casual bday dinner I’d still tell them at least 1-2 weeks in advance
@Jennifer I know that, I meant the people paying part haha 😆😄
I like making invitations on canva to send to people, or I’ll make a group chat with everyone in it and give all the details
Ohh like how do you tell them they’re paying on their own?
As far as payment, everyone should be grown.. & I would assume I’m going to pay for my own meal if I was invited to a birthday dinner. side note: When I was a teen my dad would pay for everyone’s meal just because!
Make it very clear you will not be paying for them and if people come and act like they weren’t aware be sure to just pay your bill and leave. Don’t involve yourself in made up drama. 😂 But you can write up a message with the details with the restaurant name, price ranges for the meals, the time and date. Let them know they need to solidify their spot two weeks before the date to ensure everyone’s still attending. As for the restaurant just call them let them know the date you’re looking for and the amount of people that may attend.
Personally I’ve never addressed the who’s paying part. Usually people just come and pay for themselves already knowing.
@Elisa okay thank you, the restaurants are able to split the bills for 11 people?
Just because you want to invite your friends out for dinner for your birthday, it doesn't mean you have to pay for them all. They should all pay for themselves.
@Rachel thank you 🙏🏽 I wasn’t sure if it was too be expected of me or something. First time doing something like this cus it’s my golden birthday in April. I hope the restaurant can split the bill 11 times not split but separate is want I mean.
Usually the waiter will ask how we want to split and yes they will split between how ever many people are there. But if they don’t ask in the beginning, you gotta tell them bc at the end of dinner they don’t like having to split everyone’s orders last min lol. We do it like this and other times we’ll pay on one card (for instance if no one talks about splitting the bill in the beginning) and everyone will send money to that person
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On your invite put “split bill” or “pay for what you eat” Also depends on the restaurant. 1 we went to allowed everyone to line up and say what you ate and drank and that’s all you paid for. Some we divided it by how many people. And if you have a bestie - she’ll usually tell everyone that she’s gonna divide it by everyone minus bday girl, so everyone pays for them and a lil extra to pay for bday girl. So the last one we went to there was 12 of us, and her bestie divided bill by 11 so we each paid a couple dollars extra each to pay for bday girl. I think I do that more often, actually. Or you can split bill tell them amount and they transfer to you on the spot, leaving you to pay for whole bill in one go but w their input - that gets confusing w too many people though I only advise that for under 4 people. This is also one reason why I like doing karaoke for my Bdays - it’s $40pp and as we all pay separately at the counter before we go in to the room.
I just invite people, make the reservation and usually everyone just pays for themselves