quicko: to not split

To split or not to split. Bills, that is. And Australian restaurants overwhelmingly pick the wrong answer. They refuse to split them, leaving you high and dry with nothing but two useless credit cards. And, what's worse, they get away with it! They have something akin to a monopoly as there are hardly any restaurants you can go where they will split bills, the unfortunate customer (who is, in a shocking twist of fate, always wrong in this country) no option but to cough up cash or find herself up a very steep creek.