An Italian waitress living in Australia has revealed the ‘annoying’ thing she noticed diners do when splitting the bill at restaurants.

Alice, who works for an Italian restaurant in Melbourne after moving from Tuscany, said she didn’t have a problem with customers splitting the bill equally, but she finds it ‘weird’ when they only want to pay for what they ordered.

‘As an Italian waitress… here’s the thing that shocked me most and the reason why we don’t do this in Italy,’ she said in a brutally honest video.

‘We’re going to talk about the habit of splitting the bill individually. I’m talking about that annoying part of the night where people are like, ‘Oh I had three glasses of wine, you had four so I should pay less’ or ‘I ate two chips less than you so I’m going to put $5 less’.’

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‘In Italy, we call it splitting the bill ‘alla romana’, the Roman way.’

Alla romana means dividing the total cost of a bill equally among everyone at the table, regardless of what each person ordered. In Italy, paying for your exact items is considered less common.

‘You just split the bill by however many people are at the table. You are having dinner with six people, the amount is the total you just divide it by six,’ Alice said.

‘The reason why we do that is especially because if you’re going out with a group of friends who you’re usually hanging out with, this is not the only time you’re going to have dinner with those people, right?

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‘Maybe that night you’re driving so you’re not drinking as much as they are – so sure you are spending less money. But maybe the next time, someone else will be driving so they will drink less.’

She said it’s a common practice in Italy to split the final bill evenly by the number of diners as it all balances out if you’re regularly dining together.

‘So for this dinner, I am paying $20 than what I should but the next one the same thing will probably happen to another person. Maybe you didn’t drink that much but you had dessert and they didn’t,’ Alice said.

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Her video has been viewed than 60,000 times – with many agreeing with her statement.

‘I agree. It’s so embarrassing when my friends want to divide it up. Then I have other friends where we fight to pay the whole bill,’ one shared.

‘Yes this is very embarrassing indeed. When people go out in groups, you should order shared plates so everyone pays evenly. Especially fancy restaurants, you should never try to split bills,’ another suggested.

‘I fully agree just split evenly, I feel like it all comes out in the wash. I get you and you get me, we have the rest of our lives to eat dinner with each other – it will all work out,’ one explained.

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‘The pettiness with money is a very Australian thing,’ another added, laughing.

But not everyone was on board, with one Aussie ranting: ‘We’re in a cost of living crisis and everyone’s budget is different. If I order a glass of water and some garlic bread then that’s what I’m paying for.’

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‘Sorry. I don’t drink. I’m happy to split food evenly, and drinks can be individual,’ another suggested.

‘If the meal is a shared meal, then yes, split it down the middle. But I’m not going to pay for Joanna’s $30 cocktail, John’s $50 steak and Jason’s $60 lobster,’ one said.

‘I would absolutely agree for the majority of the time, but I hate when that one person orders expensive things because they expect it to be split evenly by everyone at the table,’ another shared.

‘The cost of eating out in Australia is higher than most places, we’re also in a cost of living crisis where lots of people are struggling to pay rent and just exist. If someone gets a $20 meal and no drinks and others get like $80 worth of food, how is that fair to split it evenly?’ another pointed out.

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‘I always get ripped off splitting a bill. If I’m a designated driver and they get hammered I’m doing them a favour and yet I pay ? Nah,’ one added.

Other Aussies revealed a simple way they typically paid for what they ordered.

‘A lot of times when we go out in groups one person pays the whole lot, and then we transfer them the cost of what we ate/drank. Just a normal thing, I don’t want people to pay if I had , and vice versa,’ one revealed.

Meanwhile, another Italian chimed in, saying: ‘As a fellow Italian, I 100 per cent agree with you. My friends and I always fight because we all want to pay the bill.

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‘We all take turns and it ends up even one way or another. And no one cries over 50 dollars like come on… live your life,’ she said.