I'm only paying for what's on the check.
I'm not splitting the bill, shorty, that's crazy.
You expect us to split the bill?
My thing is, you got lamb chop, you got steak, you got some other-
>> Look at all that,
look at what all they got and they're talking about splitting the bill.
>> What did you come out for?
What did you come out for?
>> [CROSSTALK] If we come together, we split the bill, period.
>> My thing is y'all are doing too much.
>> Speaker 1: Y'all doing way too much.
We didn't order all that.
>> Speaker 2: Why are we showing you that video where there's chaos at a dinner?
Well, apparently, that particular TikTok has gone viral because
the group of friends were basically arguing about how to split the check.
If you have existed in real life,
then you've probably experienced something similar to that.
Maybe not as fired up, but you have a big dinner with friends,
maybe a birthday dinner, okay?
Some people like to order a lot of things, they get the cocktails,
they get the appetizer.
They might even get a dessert after the entree.
>> Speaker 3: Bastards!
>> Speaker 2: But you, you got water and you got a little salad.
You're trying to watch your weight.
Maybe you're trying to watch what's happening in your pocketbook, right,
trying to save some money.
But then the bill comes, John, the bill comes and
they expect you to split it equally.
What do you do?
>> Speaker 3: I order more than a water and a salad, I'll tell you that.
>> Speaker 2: Same, that's the rule, that's what I do too.
>> Speaker 3: Do you wanna have fun?
I don't know, if you're only ordering that, should you even be at the party?
You're probably bringing down the vibes, but no, I'm kidding.
So $4,600 is obviously a lot of money.
I was trying to get an idea from the video of how many people were in the party.
>> Speaker 2: Right.
>> Speaker 3: Do we know?
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
So let me give you all the details of the story and then you can opine.
So the guest of honor who goes by Coco supposedly requested
that others cover the cost of her meal for her special day.
>> That's fine.
>> Speaker 2: By the way, I 1,000% agree with that.
I think that you should treat the birthday girl.
>> Speaker 2: Person.
>> Speaker 2: There are cultural differences.
I'm sorry, person, my bad.
>> Speaker 3: I mean, I'm generalizing beyond this particular case.
If it's a birthday party for a person, cover their food, their drinks,
that's what I'm saying.
>> Speaker 2: I mean, it does say for her special day.
>> Speaker 3: No, and I'm saying in this case, do it, and in other cases, do it.
That's all I'm saying.
>> I thought you were trying to make a point about this person's gender.
And I was like, my God, did I screw this up?
>> Speaker 3: No, I just mean in general, you should do that.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, yes.
Obviously, this is about a specific incident.
But yes, the story, I think,
can be applied to something that a lot of us have experienced, right?
All right, so moving on, I'm only going to pay for what's on the check,
I'm not splitting the bill.
Victor Christian, 28, said at the beginning of the 21-second clip.
Another man, who was not identified in the video, stands up from the table and
gestures to the various meals, which included lamb chop, steak, and
other elaborate dishes, while arguing that the group should not split
the bill evenly due to those costly items.
Yeah, look, this is why birthday dinners, They don't work out.
>> Speaker 3: Well, I've never experienced what you just saw in that video of, like,
people, look,
we can have an interesting conversation about how you should break this down.
What I would say is- >> And the bill was $4,600.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of money.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah.
>> Speaker 3: So look, I guess it's good that they did the video and
that this fight happened between friends so that people can have the conversation.
But I think the goal as a society should be to not have a bunch of friends yelling
at each other, standing up,
recording each other to immediately post it on social media.
>> Speaker 3: Dude, yes.
>> I would really like to avoid that in general.
>> Speaker 2: No, but look, at this point,
I've accepted there's no such thing as friends, okay?
The second that it's easy to do,
the second that the opportunity presents itself, they will trash you publicly.
They'll do it on Twitter, they'll do it on Instagram, they'll do it on Facebook,
they'll trash you, I guarantee it.
>> I have kept hope alive for the concept of friendship [CROSSTALK].
>> You have, you're the only one.
But continue.
>> Speaker 3: So look, $4,600, let's say that there was eight people there,
assuming one or two people that weren't on camera, that is a lot of money for
individuals.
Look, I like the idea that you have a sense of your social group.
You have a sense of, if we're gonna go out,
we're just gonna split it because that's simplest.
We're gonna cover the birthday person, that's great.
But you do not get to decide for
everyone at the party that that's what the system is going to be.
And if you do want to push for that to be the system,
you cannot spring that once the bill's there, talk about it beforehand.
>> Speaker 2: That's actually a really, really good point.
A few more details, okay?
So remember, birthday girl feels that she shouldn't have to pay,
then there's this debate- >> I agree with her.
>> I agree with that. Then there's this debate about
whether the check should be split evenly.
So Broke Kato says this, [LAUGH] great name,
we come together, we split the bill, period,
demanded one of the other women also seated at the table.
It's important to note again that the bill was $4,600.
Victor Christian argued that the bill should have been divided based on who
ordered what, and that since he and another attendee didn't drink, they should
be exempt from paying for the expensive liquor bottles ordered that evening.
Yeah, man, that does complicate things.
If you're ordering bottles, you're ordering bottles.
>> Well, yeah, because, look- >> You're ordering bottles.
>> If it is possible for one person, first of all, never order a bottle.
>> Speaker 3: Don't order bottles.
>> Speaker 3: God, it's just ugh.
But anyway, if you can just order, like, $40 worth of food, if one person did,
that implies that you can eat without it costing hundreds of dollars.
It's not a place where to get in the door, it's $150 tasting menu or something.
So then the question is, how do you get to an average of $600 a person?
>> Speaker 2: My God. >> Speaker 3: Then that means that some
people were spending $900.
Did they have 30 cocktails?
I mean, somebody clearly ordered a bottle of wine that was $400 or
a bottle of liquor that was $200.
And that, I think, really breaks a social contract,
assuming that's not how they normally act.
The one woman implied that they do generally skip the bill, but
we can't fact check that, we don't know if it's true.
>> Speaker 2: We don't know, yeah, exactly.
And Coco says that there was a message sent in a group chat
the Saturday before the dinner indicating that the bill would be split,
but apparently, Christian insisted that he was unaware of that.
Multiple other videos have been posted to explain the situation, including this one.
Let's take a look.
>> Speaker 2: Hey, so I see that video went really viral.
The bill was $4,600.
That's why I didn't wanna split it.
This was a very expensive restaurant.
Look, they're even giving hat towels.
So I'm gonna show you all the whole video so you can see what actually happened.
>> Speaker 1: Bro, I'm tired of this [BLEEP], it's her birthday.
>> Speaker 2: It's my [BLEEP] birthday, why the [BLEEP] I have to pay for
something on my birthday?
[INAUDIBLE] >> Speaker 1: What I'm saying is,
why would I pay for something I didn't buy?
I'm only paying for what's on the check.
I'm not splitting the bill, shorty, that's crazy.
You expect us to split the bill?
>> My thing is you got lamb chop, you got steak,
you got some other- >> Speaker 1: Look at all that,
look at what all they got and they're talking about splitting the bill.
>> Speaker 1: What did you come out for?
What did you come out for?
>> [CROSSTALK] If we come together, we split the bill, period.
>> My thing is y'all are doing too much.
>> Speaker 1: Y'all doing way too much.
We didn't order all that.
What I'm saying is I'm not paying for that.
That is dead, baby girl, that is dead, that's dead.
>> In public if you can't pay for your food?
What's the point in getting food if you can't pay?
>> Aisha, happy birthday to you.
>> Speaker 3: What was the ending of that video?
>> Speaker 2: That ending was great.
I thought that that made me feel better about the whole situation.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that just makes me feel bad about gatherings in
general, that they could end up like that.
>> Speaker 2: Go to a fancy restaurant to celebrate your dinner,
your birthday with either your partner or your closest friend, and that's it.
[LAUGH] Don't do it at a fancy, expensive restaurant with a giant group of people.
Look, it's complicated when you go to the Cheesecake Factory with a giant group
of people.
I can't- >> Where the bill would be $500.
>> Speaker 2: Right [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 3: Look, we don't know that group.
It is possible that they make a lot more money than the average person.
To me, no dinner for eight people is worth $4,600, but
for them, maybe that's excessive, but not that excessive.
For me, that would be the most expensive meal-
>> Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what their- >> I've ever been to.
>> Speaker 2: Financial situation is.
>> And most- >> Judging-
>> Of the-
>> By the-
>> Speaker 3: Group was acting-
>> Conflict, though-
>> Like it was normal.
>> Speaker 3: No, well,
two people were freaking out, but everyone else seemed to think it was
not that excessive. >> Speaker 2: That's the other thing.
So look,
it's Coco's birthday. I don't want Coco to feel like I'm
being judgmental toward her, right? You wanna celebrate your birthday with
your friends, you wanna have a good time, you wanna go to a particular restaurant,
I totally get that. But you also have to be considerate of
the financial situation of the individuals that you're inviting.
It's one thing to have a giant birthday dinner at a standard restaurant with
average prices, but a super luxurious, nice restaurant like that,
you're putting people in a tough spot, right?
So I would say in this particular situation,
what I would do if I were the birthday girl is,
I would continue to insist that everyone pay for my dinner, [LAUGH] okay?
>> Speaker 3: And I would storm out of the building.
>> Because I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
But I do think that maybe spend the extra few minutes in determining who ordered
what to ensure that someone who ordered one small thing isn't spending an insane
amount of money to subsidize what the person popping bottles was ordering.
>> Speaker 3: What if, and I'm not saying that this did happen, but
what if the person buying, the maybe $500 bottle of wine or whatever was Coco,
knowing that she doesn't have to pay?
>> The plot thickens.
>> What if she got the tomahawk steak and the $500 bottle of wine?
This is a pure hypothetical, I have no reason to believe that.
And bear in mind, nobody at the table is acting as
if she did anything wrong other than the one person who's mad about the situation.
Nobody is implying that she was being unfair.
>> Yeah. >> Speaker 3: I'm saying that, I think,
might change the situation.
It wouldn't change what I would do at that dinner, I would still split it,
but I probably would not go out to any more dinners with that group if that's
the sort of shenanigans that was happening.
>> Speaker 2: So we're curious what you all think.
We have a poll on this, tyt.com/polls.
The question is, to split or not to split?
A viral argument over a $4,600 dinner bill has sparked a heated debate
online about the proper way to split the bill.
How should the bill be split?
Split the bill evenly?
Pay only for what you ordered?
So really, really curious where you guys come down on this.
In terms of the comments on TikTok, what are the people saying?
Let's give the people a voice.
So on TikTok, some viewers sided with Christian and
said that he was in the right.
He shares a name with my husband, so I'm tempted to go along-
>> So he's probably in the right [LAUGH].
>> With him, yeah [LAUGH]. Some believe it's warranted for
the guest of honor to ask others to pay for her meal.
By the way, let me just say, I don't have it in me to ask for
other people to pay for my meal, but I am hoping that people will do it [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 3: It is my assumption at an event like that.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And
if the birthday girl picked the restaurant and invited her,
some people are saying that she should pay, which, by the way, I have done.
The last time I had a birthday dinner, which was last year,
mostly because Christian surprised me, there were like six people there.
And when the bill came, I was like, just take my card.
Take my card, I don't wanna have a conversation about what we do.
I just want people to enjoy it, not a baller,
I just happened to get paid that day [LAUGH].
So I was lucky.
>> Speaker 3: It sounds like it was a fun dinner [LAUGH].
>> Speaker 2: But Christian did it.
>> [LAUGH] I'm kidding, okay, good.
I'm not mad at you anymore.
>> Speaker 2: Okay. >> Speaker 3: I'm still mad at him.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah. >> Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go get him, go get him.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, I will just throw out one last thing.
If you do decide to break it down, where, okay, we're not just gonna split it,
just look over the bill and figure out what you need to pay,
the issue with that is, it will never come out to enough money.
People will either make mistakes or maybe someone fudges the numbers a bit, and
then the last person who has to figure out how much they have to pay has to make up
for whatever the gap is.
>> Speaker 2: That happened at,
do you remember my karaoke birthday from ages ago?
It was so long ago.
>> I don't.
>> You were there, you were there.
I remember you there.
Anyway, two people did not pay, they skipped.
They left after ordering a bunch of food, yes, you remember.
>> Speaker 2: That sounds familiar.
>> Speaker 2: Bunch of food, bunch of liquor, bunch of stuff.
>> Speaker 3: I have no memory of who it was.
>> Speaker 2: And then she and her friend dipped out just before the bill came.
>> Speaker 3: And so- >> Okay, off camera, we'll talk about.
>> Yeah, yeah, it was, anyway- >> Don't say it, don't say it-
>> Of course, I'm not gonna say anything.
>> I'll tweet it later.
>> I'm not give any identifying details here-
>> I'm gonna put it on Friends.
>> But it sucked for me because I paid the rest, and it was a lot, a lot.
>> Speaker 3: So the lesson of this entire thing is, go to Ana's birthday parties,
you'll probably get a free meal.
>> Speaker 2: Probably.