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@Dammit
Well, not really. If you sell something like coffee at £2.00 per unit then you are making a large profit, but your costs are high- so you need to sell a lot of them.
So whilst coffee shops do have seating, newspapers and so forth they'd prefer you to drink up and move on (see Busaba) so they can sell someone else a coffee.
If your overheads are smaller then you can afford to have a more relaxed atmosphere as the pressure is not on to get people out, in fact it might make sense to keep them in your business buying something every now and again, as opposed to selling a new customer something every 13 seconds.
So yes, it's a cultural thing, but imposed by the costs of the location more than anything else I would think.