My last lot generally the skipper or first officer paid for the drinks with a few notable exceptions one being an Aussie guild member who was known by the Dutch as “crime” as “crime never pays”..we had one guy who gave a third of his salary to charity; a long way from the days when my mrs was on twenty quid gross a week and I was on forty quid gross - time when she got twelve quid lunch allowance in Geneva or Zurich whilst we got around thirty bob for the same trip rumoured that some old fart said it wasn’t becoming for flight crew to handle cash but OK for cabin staff. Some “said” staff could make a hundred quid on a Nice bar and close to that uplifting fags from the Rome mafia.
Different times when many of us had jobs on the side and we ate offal and couldn’t afford to take the family to a restaurant; during my selection process met a skipper who asked how much my starting salary was - should be able to take your family out four or five times a week - gobsmacked as didn’t do that at home in a year after 7 years with the old lot.