You must live in a weird place, I&#x27;ve never once had a waiter even react to splitting a check. In fact the majority ask us first (especially when it&#x27;s multiple couples at a table).<p>A friend of mine says typically when she splits a bill, both payees will assume the other is a crappy tipper&#x2F;don&#x27;t want to tip less, so they&#x27;ll both tip a higher percentile and she&#x27;ll occasionally get 1.5-2 times the tip money, so when people ask her to split a bill she just hears more money coming.<p>Purely anecdotal, YMMV, etc. etc.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m curious if downvotes are due to people not wanting wait staff to get bigger tips or if it&#x27;s because wait staff in my area don&#x27;t gripe about splitting bills? I never expected this comment to cost me karma, but such it is.