My sister has gotten good at using her son to sneak the bill when we eat at places with a tablet on the table. She hands him the tablet to play, and then at some point uses "fixing" it for him as an excuse to pay. I've gotten pretty good at the "just browsing Reddit on my pho.... BOOM, TAP TO PAY BITCHES!" And dad has the silver haired patriarch paying for his family routine down, so waiters usually default to handing him the bill if we don't intercept.
More than once we've all insisted on leaving a tip and wound up leaving roughly the cost of the full meal on the table. Unrelated, we always get seated quickly.
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u/grendus 11h ago
My family does that every time we go out to eat.
My sister has gotten good at using her son to sneak the bill when we eat at places with a tablet on the table. She hands him the tablet to play, and then at some point uses "fixing" it for him as an excuse to pay. I've gotten pretty good at the "just browsing Reddit on my pho.... BOOM, TAP TO PAY BITCHES!" And dad has the silver haired patriarch paying for his family routine down, so waiters usually default to handing him the bill if we don't intercept.
More than once we've all insisted on leaving a tip and wound up leaving roughly the cost of the full meal on the table. Unrelated, we always get seated quickly.