TikToker shares timesaving hospitality industry secret: “Get your Venmos out babes”

A server has shared on TikTok a hospitality industry secret that helps speed up the process of putting big bills through the till.

When it comes to splitting the check after a shared restaurant dinner, it turns out the internet has a lot to say.

The topic first made headlines when a debate arose surrounding whether bills should be split equally between all participants, or divided based on what each individual has ordered.

And now a server has taken to TikTok with a new idea to solve the problem: remove the possibility of splitting checks altogether.

Mandy Ciraco, who goes by ‘mandy.french’ online, posted a TikTok lipsyncing to Bad Idea Right? by Olivia Rodrigo with the writing “Sorry, the system doesn’t let us split a check more than two ways.”

While the two may seem unrelated at first, it all comes down to a specific line Mandy uses from the song, specifically; “The biggest lie I ever said.”

The TikTok serves as a confession, with Mandy admitting she lies to customers about being unable to split the check more than a certain number of times. In the comments, she went on to say that two or three times is ok, but splitting the check any more than that is “annoying”.

While a majority of commenters were on her side — sharing their own check-splitting horror stories — some sympathized with the struggles of having to ask someone to Venmo a forgotten meal payment.

“I used to be a server and know the pain but if this happened to me I would become a Karen that day. Nobody ‘remembers’ to Venmo,” one person said.

Another commenter even thought of a response to counter Mandy’s plan, suggesting anyone still wanting to split the check could simply say “Okay can you get your manager to redo this as separate tables? Thanks.”

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