Miss Manners: How do we initiate new friends into our way of splitting the bill?

Miss Manners, featuring Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin, and Jacobina Martin, provides guidance on managing financial expectations among new friends. The advice focuses on how to initiate discussions regarding splitting bills and deciding who fronts the payment when eating out. Specifically, the experts address scenarios where individuals order and pay for food without receiving offers from companions to contribute to the tab, offering strategies on when to communicate a preference for going dutch.