Swiss law requires restaurants to include service in the listed prices. The amount on the bill is the amount you owe in full — nothing is added afterward.
Because service is already included, an extra tip is not expected. Many people round the bill up to the next 5 or 10 francs, or leave small coins, as a way to acknowledge good service.
If you pay by card, the terminal in Switzerland usually has no separate tip field, so rounding up in cash is the simplest way to leave something extra. Restaurant staff are paid a full wage regardless of tips.
TWINT, Switzerland's mobile payment app, is accepted almost everywhere and has its own bill-splitting feature: one person pays the full amount, then requests each person's share directly through the app, so the table only needs to deal with the restaurant once. It's separate from tipping norms above \u2014 splitting a bill this way doesn't change whether a tip is expected.
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