Black people have to endure various stereotypes and prejudices daily. In particular, when it comes to dining establishments, black people are often stereotyped as not tipping as well and also as not being able to pay for their food.

A Denny's in Federal Way, Washington appeared to take that stereotype to heart recently.

A waitress at the restaurant reportedly asked a group of black patrons to pay for their meals before they received them, according to The News Tribune.

The request came to light after Palmer Pellham and his wife Esther, who are white, were witnesses to event, and posted an account of it on Facebook. Their post went viral.

According to the Pellhams, the discrimination started right when the group of black customers walked in the door.

The couple noted that they walked in, they were seated immediately. “A few minutes after we sat down, four young African American men walk in to eat. They have to wait about 10 minutes, even though the restaurant is empty, to be seated,” Palmer Pellham said.

He added that two white men came in after the group of young black men, and were seated immediately.

When the black group was finally seated, the Pellhams observed that their service wasn’t up to par.

Apparently, the waitress quickly took their orders, before returning her attentions to the white patrons’ table. After serving the white customers, the waitress came back to the black customers.

“She then asks for them to pay before the cook will prepare their food,” Pellham continued. “She says that she has had several people order food and leave without paying so her manager said she had to have them pay first.”

“The young men did not make a scene or disrupt other people,” Pellham noted, who said the black men asked to speak to a manager. “They were complaining a little bit, but quietly.”

Pellham said, that at that point, he and his wife were too disgusted to remain at the diner.

“At this point my wife and I have lost our appetites, drop our forks, and tell the server we are leaving and want to pay,” he wrote. Pellham added that he confronted the waitress about it, noting that “being racist was not the way to deal with that situation.”

After a back and forth between the Pellhams and the waitress, a manager broke their argument up, telling the waitress to stop talking to Pellham.

“I finished paying and said that I was never going to Denny’s again. They young men thanked us as we left,” wrote Pellham.

So, what happened to the waitress and manager?

Denny’s made an official statement on Facebook, noting that they have a “zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind” and that “the employees involved in this incident are no longer employed by our franchisee and no longer a part of the Denny’s system.”