Love to have opinions from this forum on the following:
I was one of five friends who enjoyed a nice dinner together at a fairly nice restaurant. Unfortunately there was a major snafu with the bill as follows:
Bill was $365. We decided to leave $420, i.e $84 each.
Persons A,B,C each left $84 cash, total $252.
Persons D and E each submitted credit cards and told the busboy to charge each card $84.
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Next day Person E realized his card had been charged $281, instead of $84. Apparently the busboy had not transmitted our instructions correctly to the cashier, who had charged the bill of $365 to person D $84 and Person E $281. The $252 cash was apparently assumed to be a tip. Person E unfortunately did not check the amount charged before signing.
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This will be an interesting test for the restaurant management if you can arrange to talk to them in person. The numbers look reasonable with conventional 15% or so tip and should show in their records. The sticky part is the cash part where you need to rely on the busboy so a good test for him too...........probably no record of that? but because it was so large, it should have stuck in his mind or maybe it is recorded.....but it is certainly not a normal tip. A sympathetic management and an honest busboy (or good restaurant records) would certainly help your case. Good luck!
If no luck, hopefully you guys fight over it as Bestwife suggests but I would think you pay in proportion to your contributory negligence so perhaps E pays 2 shares worth so you split the pain 6 ways and E pays 2 shares worth
and the rest pay $33 each