Imagine you’re on a business trip having dinner with a group of people from your company. To speed up service a colleague asks everyone for their preferences in advance, yours being a fairly pricey fish entrée that meets your dietary restrictions. Later, when the food arrives, a bit of sharing occurs.
Everyone eats, and now comes the bill. Unfortunately, the colleague that coordinated the order has committed the faux pas of forgetting to ask for separate checks. Everyone agrees to pay for what they ordered, but at this point, it’s too late to get separate receipts. Fortunately, waitstaff can print a copy of the total bill for each member of the party.
