at the first restaurant wait staff literally left the restaurant and followed Yurop: Tipping is unusual in&nbsp;Europe, unless you are a tourist and Loading comments... mmm. looks like it posted anyway although there was no message telling there were too many words in it. Ok, then the rest follows in this post. She did not know at first and at the first restaurant wait staff literally left the restaurant and followed her onto the streets to get the tip. Amazing...... Find that in Europe.... Anywhere. Now that is a tipping culture. Europe has no such tipping culture. A tipping culture is where the local population massively participates in tipping because it is not done not to do so. In Europe "tipping" mainly consists of ripping off tourists that take cabs or visit tourist sites. Wait staff do not rely on tips here. Neither in minimum wage countries nor in those without minimum wages. In the part of North West Europe I am familiar with situation is like this: in Belgium, France, Holland minimum wages are around 1400 EUR a month. Everyone is entitled to minimum wages, so wait staff as well. Germany and Italy have no minimum wages (depends on companies and labour unions), but minimum there is roughly the same. That makes them expensive. So, overhere one sees relatively few people with permanent contracts in bars, cafes. Many are people with temporary contracts working few hours or a few days. Most are students making money to pay for tuiton