USA: Food and drink
"Fast food" may be America's most enduring contribution to the modern culinary world, but most travelers find the sheer variety - and, for the most part, quality - of the foods available around the US quite astonishing.Whether it's for basic sustenance or for a special social occasion, most Americans love to dine out and, in the cities at least, you can pretty much eat whatever you want, whenever you want. Along all the highways and on every main street, restaurants, fast-food places and coffee shops try to outdo one another with flashing neon signs as well as bargains and special offers.
Whatever you eat and wherever you eat, service is usually enthusiastic - thanks in large part to the institution of tipping . Waiters depend on tips for the bulk of their earnings; fifteen to twenty percent is the standard rate, and a bare minimum in major cities.
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