Drive-thru and tip

Drive-thru's are big in Texas. You can pretty much drive thru anything. You hungry? Drive thru hamburger places, "the best ribs in town", Asian food, pizza, take your pick. You thirsty? Drive thru Starbucks or at Christmas time, the "home-made eggnog" place. You need money? Drive-thru an ATM.

And everywhere you tip. Get a coffee from Starbucks (even the drive-thru variant) tip 1$. For food, tip more. Not sure, but think that possibly you're excused from tipping at the ATM machine :)...

You even tip the people sitting in the little booth on the highway collecting the charge for driving there.

15% is the usual amount of tip. Apparently the people are so poorly paid, so most of them live on the tip. I've heard horror stories where waiters have gone quite mad, not having received tip because of bad service. So 15% is normal, anything above that is for extraordinarily good service, and less is obviously for bad service.

Even for drinks in a bar you tip. They have a glass on the counter which is big and kinda in your face, so that you won't forget.


PS. When I tip the home delivery pizza people here at home 2 CHF they are very grateful. And that includes them coming to my place, not driving thru theirs!